However, Mathias chose to remain as a Republican, and teamed up with eight other Republican senators to express their dissatisfaction with the hard-line wing of the party.

To one hard-line wing of the environmental movement, the best way to preserve Yellowstone's winter solitude is to ban snowmobiles.

His death will have no immediate impact on the current alignment of leaders, but it weakens the hard-line wing of the party and thus could ease the path for liberalization.

A hard-line wing of the Bush administration has been pushing to get more money and weapons to the Iraqi opposition in exile.

The same general who told of the April plot said that General Tanai and other members of the governing party's hard-line wing had conspired to overthrow Mr. Najibullah.

Some diplomats say that though he comes from the hard-line wing of his party, he may have changed his views, though the diplomats seem more hopeful than certain.

At a young age he became a local fascist leader in Umbria where he garnered a reputation as a member of the hard-line intransigenti wing of the movement.

Mr. Trimble, who beat four other candidates, belongs to the party's hard-line wing, which is most likely to reject talks with Sinn Fein.

He eventually resigned over alleged instances of anti-Semitism within the hard-line wing of the party, and was replaced by Bernard Landry.