0 someone, especially in politics, who is very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to reduce or change their demands in any way:
One cannot claim that the compassion is all on one side and the hard-liners all on the other.
Yet these were the non-interventionists, the hard-liners and the champions of cutting public expenditure.
The hard-liners do not even want to stop there, and why should they?
If the hard-liners in his own party throw him out, what they will get is direct rule.
That seemed to be working, but inflation is, alas, now rising sharply once more and the economic liberals have given way to communist hard-liners.
Too often we have seen that type of body first infiltrated, and then controlled and ultimately dominated, by political extremists and hard-liners.
It may be that they begin on "soft" drugs, but they rapidly become hard-liners.
The command structure is wanted by the hard-liners.
