0 a small group of people within a larger group, who strongly believe in the group's principles and usually have a lot of power in it -- （團體的）中堅分子，骨幹力量，核心力量
1 the pieces of broken stone, brick, etc. used to make the base under a floor, path, or road -- （用作地基、路基等的）碎磚石
2 showing sexual acts clearly and in detail -- （性描寫）赤裸裸的，露骨的
hard-core pornography 赤裸裸的色情作品
3 used to describe people who strongly believe in something -- 信念堅定的
As those with shorter sentences who did not reoffend were able to take off their crosses, the remaining cross-wearers were identified as a hard core of heretical sympathisers.
This hard core consisted of older and more devoted members, but they were probably less vigorous and did not proselytise to the same extent as before.
However, the second argument strikes even "hard core" retributivists as peculiar.
The music ranged through the various dance styles from frenetic hard core and jungle to the more gentle ambient.
Mathematics has an objective, ever-expanding hard core, the growth of which is conditioned by socially and historically determined images of mathematics.
But we come back to the hard core of 12 to 15 percent who just refuse to conform.
In contradistinction, if "crazy" was the hard core of the relationship, then the relationship could be classified as "crazy (known)".
Both hard core and soft core had their families in mind.
