0 the fact of being very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to give people what they want -- 强硬路线（或态度）
The government wants to take a hard line against the strikers. 政府想对罢工者采取强硬手段。
1 extreme and severe and not likely to change -- 强硬的，不妥协的
a hard-line manifesto 立场坚定的宣言
a hard-line politician 不妥协的政治家
Maimonides presents a hard line of a different sort concerning responsibility.
He takes a hard line in classifying topasses as distinctly separate from the soldiers generically referred to as sepoys.
Faced with disobedience and violation of the law, states must take a hard line with civil disobedients.
Or rather than a hard line, a band of income within which the correlation is increasingly weak.
An equally hard line should be taken in both cases.
We will take a hard line on this.
That does not mean that we must always take a hard line.
We shall be taking a hard line at the conference next week.
