If so, it might be an indication that the most hard-line Sunnis will increasingly turn on other Sunnis as sectarian divides widen.

Nevertheless, the most hard-line and fundamentalist faction in the front decided after much wavering to take part in the balloting.

He remains closely allied with Prime Minister Li Peng, among the most hard-line of the party's conservative faction.

Those in charge of the party apparatus are the most hard-line of its members, while the moderates are left to search for an organization that can represent them.

One senior member of this island's most hard-line Islamic group said he loves American television and hopes to send his son off to university in the States.

Lashkar is among the most hard-line of the militant groups active in a guerrilla war against India in Kashmir.

Jacobs was one of the "most militant hard-line" NHL owners responsible for the 2012-13 lockout.

He referred to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the political head of the most hard-line fundamentalist party.

The settlers in Hebron are among the most hard-line and ideological, while the town is also a hotbed for Palestinian militants.

The Government generally uses the word terrorists to refer to the Armed Islamic Group, the most hard-line of Algeria's insurgency movements.