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How to use the word hardliners in a Sentence?

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More time affords Iran greater opportunities to make nuclear advances, and delays make the West sweat — both of which, in the eyes of some Iranian hardliners, give Iran greater leverage for when it returns to talks.

Henry Rome

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the Vienna talks succeed and there is a better situation with America, then (with) hardliners in power, who are close to the supreme leader, the situation may improve.

Abdulaziz Sager

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization will not help this conflict be resolved in any sense, and actually risks prolonging it, there are risks that the Houthi hardliners will feel empowered to turn towards Iran more. They will be unwilling to engage in diplomatic processes or backchannels to Saudi Arabia.

Chris Doyle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The rush by China hardliners to push out actions against China by January 20 has short-circuited an already disorganized policy process.

Michael Hirson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is no specific agreement for a phased rollback of the tariffs, the American side has been ambiguous when and which tariffs will be lifted. The Chinese have some wishful thinking and are trying to soothe their domestic hardliners that the tariffs will someday come off.

Michael Pillsbury

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Iran's ban on half the population attending football matches has led to women and girls risking arrest, jail, and even their lives to challenge it, any concessions by FIFA to limit the number of women who can attend stadiums only empowers Iran's hardliners who have ... (kept) discriminatory restrictions in place.

Minky Worden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[Hardliners] couldn't ask for a better ally than the Trump administration.

Ali Vaez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So Prabowo has no case, but the hardliners and Alumni 212 can create lots of headaches for Jokowi if they go ahead with their protest plan tomorrow and in future weeks.

Alexander Raymond Arifianto

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Rouhani's policy of interaction with the world ... scares the hardliners as they believe that without confrontation, particularly with the West, the Islamic Republic could stop being a revolutionary state.

Meir Javedanfar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Hardliners recognize Ahmadinejad is the only person that can stand up to the reformists and their candidates, his activity has grown very, very much. And he's caused a stir in various places.

Saeed Leylaz

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In the Assembly of Experts the principalists( hardliners) lost seats. That part is more complicated because the people sitting there are theologians, jurists not necessarily politicians, but they do have a lot of power, in the Shi’ite theology the leader is not infallible.

Foad Izadi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the Assembly of Experts the principalists (hardliners) lost seats. That part is more complicated because the people sitting there are theologians, jurists not necessarily politicians, but they do have a lot of power, in the Shi'ite theology the leader is not infallible.

Foad Izadi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have done my research and decided to vote for the principlists (hardliners), they are the best and care for the wellbeing of the people.

Marjohan Ranjbag

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everybody is happy except the Zionists, the warmongers who are fuelling sectarian war among the Islamic nation, and the hardliners in the U.S. congress.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Abadi is caught between two fires: the Sunni hardliners and the Shi'ite hardliners.

Mustafa Alani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Foot-dragging in implementing security measures paves the way for hardliners to carry out such attacks.

Ashraf Ali Mahmoud

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I see the two non-votes as a convergence of the hardliners in both camps to preserve to status quo.

Mattia Toaldo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The political risks are great. The hardliners still control parliament. They control the security and intelligence forces. They control the apparatus which has been instrumental in keeping these individuals under house arrest.

Faraz Sanei

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In terms of the political consciousness, those individuals are on the minds of everyday Iranians, as long as that issue is not resolved and those people continue to be in limbo I think that open wound continues to fester for hardliners, reformists or ordinary Iranians who are not necessarily political in any way.

Faraz Sanei

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Lifting the house arrest might increase the capabilities of the reformists and other groups and strengthen their hand in the elections, they don’t want to create a situation where the hardliners will have a greater loss.

Mohammad Taghi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rouhani has focused on external engagement, but now will be expected to use the political capital to fulfill his other promises, hardliners in Iran have benefited, and civil society has suffered, from the standoff with the West.

Mohammadreza Jalaeipour

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While an early election could be helpful in terms of removing hardliners from a Tsipras-led Syriza and, possibly, forcing the party to adopt a more centrist stance, the most likely outcome will be another fragmented parliament in which no party controls an absolute majority, this means that the 'new' Syriza – the party likely to win the largest amount of votes and seats – will have to strike another coalition deal to govern.

Wolfgango Piccoli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The truth of the matter is, inside of Iran, the people most opposed to the deal are the Revolutionary Guard, the Quds Force, hardliners who are implacably opposed to any cooperation with the international community.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The reason that Mitch McConnell and the rest of the folks in his caucus who opposed this jumped out and opposed this before they even read it, before it was even posted, is reflective of a ideological commitment not to get a deal done, in that sense they do have much more in common with the hardliners who are much more satisfied with the status quo.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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