Soviet threats to withdraw support were the main reason why reformists didn't expel the hardline Stalinist minority ( Taistoists, after Taisto Sinisalo.

This placed him in the Stalinist hardline wing of the Party.

Masyk is probably best known for his highly controversial comments that ran in an Edmonton Journal column on February 27, 2003 ; elaborating on his proposal to send repeat offenders to Russian salt mines, Masyk seemingly praised the hardline intimidation tactics employed in Soviet Union gulags during the Stalinist era.

A leader of a hardline Stalinist faction within the Communist Party, Mieczysław Moczar, blamed the student protests on " Zionists " and used this affair as a pretext to launch a larger anti-Semitic campaign ( although the expression " anti-Zionist " was officially used ) to target Jews.

Over a thousand former hardline Stalinists left Poland in 1968, among them ex prosecutor Helena Wolińska-Brus and Stalinist judge Stefan Michnik.

Fatah was appealing to Palestinians who want a more hardline response to Israel by reaffirming its option for " armed resistance " against Israel.

US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

Lieutenant-general Nawaz Khan was knew in public for his opposition and anti-muhajir sentiment, particularly his hardline against the MQM.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

When Moro was abducted, the government, at the time led by Giulio Andreotti, immediately took a hardline position stating that the " State must not bend " on terrorist demands.

Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

The perpetrators were often known as the Verdets because of their green cockets, which was the colour of the comte d ' Artois – this being the title of Charles X at the time, who was associated with the hardline ultra-royalists, or Ultras.

Still, as long as the hardline Basil Brooke was Prime Minister of Northern Ireland there was little hope of a rapprochement.

When Lynch returned he was confronted openly by Síle de Valera, Dr Bill Loughnane, a noted hardline Republican backbencher, along with Tom McEllistrim, a member of Haughey's gang of five, at a parliamentary party meeting.

The initial hardline approach was put down to power struggles within the Iranian government.

) had already prompted President John F. Kennedy to attempt to rein in burgeoning hardline anti-Communist sentiment that was intent on proactive, aggressive action against communist movements around the globe.

Nevertheless, for the duration of his tenure as ambassador, Moynihan continued his hardline rhetoric, which he describes in Pandaemonium as extreme to the point where " I became something of an embarrassment to my own government, and fairly soon left before I was fired.

In late August 2009, Melbourne newspaper The Age reported that the DLP was facing several internal divisions between Kavanagh's faction, which also sought to include evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants within the party, and ' hardline ' conservative Catholics.

On the fourth day the march was met at Burntollet Bridge by around 200 hardline unionists.

It was after this reshuffle that he revealed his future leadership aspirations as he became associated with a hardline policy document regarding Northern Ireland.

It was also against the wishes of the party and was at odds with Fianna Fáil party policy, however, O ' Kennedy's new policy was welcomed by the hardline Republican element at grassroots level within the party.

When Bill English took over National, it was thought that he might lead the Opposition away from its prior hardline New Right economic and social policies, but his indecisiveness and lack of firm policy direction led to ACT New Zealand gaining the New Right middle-class voting basis in 2002.

When this final version was debated on the U. S. Senate floor, Joseph Biden spoke as a leading advocate of the more hardline strategy.

On June 23, 1950, Sepp Schwab, a hardline Communist, was appointed director-general of DEFA.

The growing likelihood of the dissolution of the USSR itself led hardline elements in the CPSU to launch the August Coup in 1991 which temporarily removed Gorbachev from power.

The growing likelihood of the dissolution of the USSR itself led hardline elements in the CPSU to launch the August Coup in 1991 which temporarily removed Gorbachev from power.

This change in Soviet policy, along with the hardline stance of US President Ronald Reagan against Soviet military incursions, removed the specter of a possible Soviet invasion in response to any wide-ranging reforms, and hence eliminated the key argument employed by the Communists as a justification for maintaining Communism in Poland.

During the month of May, the Estates General began to fracture between the democratic Third Estate ( consisting of the bourgeoisie and radical nobility ), and the royalist nobility of the Second Estate, while the king's brothers began to become more hardline.

In Indonesia, the hardline anti-communist General Suharto wrested control of the state from his predecessor Sukarno in an attempt to establish a " New Order ".

NHLPA Executive Director and General Counsel Bob Goodenow, seen by many as the biggest villain in the lockout because of his hardline stance against a salary cap, resigned from his position five days after the agreement was ratified amid criticism from many of his constituents.

But in July 1976, the Vice President for Defense Affairs was General Fernando de Santiago, a member of a hardline group within the army.

In May 1882, Gladstone's decision to release the Irish Nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell from prison led to the resignation of the hardline Chief Secretary for Ireland, W. E. Forster.

The Secretary of State to Foreign Affairs Alain Savary, also a SFIO member, resigned because of his opposition to Mollet's hardline stance in Algeria.

During the dinner, volatile political issues including demonstrations in Busan and the opposition leader Kim Young Sam were discussed with President Park and Chief Bodyguard Cha taking hardline and Director Kim calling for moderate measures while Chief Secretary Kim was trying to steer the topic of discussion to small talk.

The conservatives wished to see a continuation of papal absolutism in the governance of the Papal States, a continuation of the hardline policies of Pope Gregory XVI and his right-wing Secretary of State, Luigi Lambruschini, while the liberals wished for some measure of moderate reform and favored two candidates in Pasquale Tommaso Gizzi and Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti.

Deák initially wanted independence for Hungary and supported the 1848 Revolution, but he broke with the hardline nationalists and advocated a modified union under the Habsburgs.

This angered a contingent of hardline nationalists under D. F.

In the following years further squatters were evicted under the hardline conservative Senator for the Interior, but others were able to buy the houses they lived in, and they remain a distinct ( counter -) cultural influence in the district to this day.

This election was seen as essentially a contest between conservative hardline factions as many of the reformist leaders were under house arrest in particular the two main opposition leaders.

There Tomac pushed for hardline policies under the pretext of helping war effort, including the curbing of press freedom and criticising human rights organisations for their meddling in Croatian internal affairs.

The dissolution of the PCI subsequent to Occhetto's victory led to the birth of two different parties, the majority Democratic Party of the Left under Occhetto and the hardline minority Communist Refoundation Party founded by Cossutta, Sergio Garavini, Lucio Libertini and others.