The only person not taking a hard-line stance, it seemed, was Kemp himself.

His hard-line stance until now has threatened to damage his party's chances.

In the last few years the Iranian authorities have softened their hard-line stance on pop music.

The union seemed taken aback by the league's sudden hard-line stance.

Gone was his hard-line stance against raising taxes or spending.

The debate was called by the Government in the hope of winning political support for its hard-line stance.

Last November it swung back to a hard-line stance, raising interest rates by half a percentage point, to 3 percent.

In the course of his office, he is known for relatively hard-line stances.

It's political: How to prevent the party's hard-line pro-life stance from driving millions of voters away.

That would probably mean not taking a hard-line stance on some of the issues.