| But now, an ultra hardliner has been elected president with a huge, if artificially augmented, majority. |
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| He was appointed to assume the political leadership as a hardliner who could deal with the growing Solidarno movement. |
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| Rice is National Security Advisor to President Bush, his closest White House influence and a hardliner on foreign policy. |
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| The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday. |
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| Mr Trimble was elected party leader as a hardliner, essentially to block any attempts at compromise. |
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| Last month he fired the army's senior general, a hardliner, while a civilian was hastily promoted. |
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| A fellow hardliner radical, Hojatoleslam Abolfazl Musavian, the former editor of Khorasan newspaper, was not so lucky. |
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| However, the pink revolution failed with the victory of a hardliner. |
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| On the other hand, we can see very clearly the fractions within the hardliner camp, again in contrast to what the pro-participation group is saying. |
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| Alas, when his connection retired, replaced by an ANC hardliner, she got the sack, and the government garnished his salary to pay back the treasury. |
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| The Unionist hardliner Jim Allister likes to compare himself to a latter-day David the Giant Slayer. |
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| It can be destroying a barricade, pushing a crowd or, as was the case in this exercise, arrest every hardliner. |
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| The situation has not improved since hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took over as president. |
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| The infrastructure minister, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, is a close associate of Chávez and is said be a government hardliner. |
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| The hardliner who was once head of the police service, has scrapped his old military uniform in favour of dark glasses, trendy stubble and natty casual suits. |
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| A substantial number of the party's ruling council could never accept that the hardliner they voted for to stonewall seemed to have sold the pass. |
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| How can we explain the fact that the latter and the hardliner group of the power around him who had expressed their opposition to such a political alternative25 finally changed their position? |
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| The Follower begins the movie as a greenhorn and something of a hardliner but quickly sees he has made a pact with the devil. |
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| The voters demonstrated their wish for a speedy solution to the Cyprus problem by electing a moderate politician, Mr Christofias, and by ousting Mr Papadopoulos who was considered by many to be a hardliner and nationalist. |
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| The Tehran hardliner newspaper Salam led the defence of Musavian and declared that his case was important because it could set a precedent for muzzling the press. |
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| So it is feared that Mr Abe, a hardliner by instinct, will try to distract voters from a dismal domestic record by gratuitous nationalistic provocation of China, and South and North Korea. |
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| The Turkish Cypriots then elected a hardliner to replace him. |
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| Hamid Rasai, a hardliner opposed to the agreement, and Nader Qazipur, a supporter, got into a scuffle. |
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| Tin Aung Myint Oo, 61, widely accepted as the most powerful hardliner in the Cabinet, officially resigned on July 1, citing health reasons. |
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| In any event, he was regarded as a hardliner on IsraeliPalestinian issues. |
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| The Iranian hardliner pledged deeper ties with Venezuela and Nicaragua, including establishing embassies in each other's capital cities. |
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