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It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
Antoine Fuqua

Meaning of "hard line" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD LINE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARD LINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hard line is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HARD LINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hard line in the English dictionary

The definition of hard line in the dictionary is an uncompromising course or policy. Other definition of hard line is hardline.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD LINE

hard feeling
hard feelings
hard fern
hard grass
hard hat
hard hitter
hard labour
hard landing
hard left
hard lens
hard lines
hard liquor
hard loan
hard luck
hard mint candy
hard money
hard neck
hard of hearing
hard pad
hard palate

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD LINE

all along the line
bottom line
cell line
command line
credit line
dotted line
finish line
front line
hold the line
hotline
land line
lay on the line
on line
product line
production line
red line
sign on the dotted line
six-yard line
step out of line
tag line
toe the line

Synonyms and antonyms of hard line in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hard line» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD LINE

Find out the translation of hard line to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard line from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard line» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

难行
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

línea dura
570 millions of speakers

English

hard line
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हार्ड लाइन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتشددة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Жесткая линия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

A linha dura
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড লাইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ligne dure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Garis keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

harte Linie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

強硬路線
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하드 라인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Garis keras
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đường lối cứng rắn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடின வரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हार्ड लाइन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sert çizgi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

linea dura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

linia twardego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жорстка лінія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

linie greu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρή γραμμή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

harde lyn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hård linje
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hard linje
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard line

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD LINE»

The term «hard line» is regularly used and occupies the 69.117 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD LINE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard line

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4 QUOTES WITH «HARD LINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hard line.
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John Battelle
The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and - if you buy the right phone - will work for years without replacement. Oh, and far as I can tell, a home phone won't give you brain cancer. In a perfect world, the hard line should have become a platform for building out an entire app ecosystem for the home. And yet... it didn't.
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Antoine Fuqua
It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
3
John Linder
Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
4
Nikki Reed
My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD LINE»

Discover the use of hard line in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard line and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hard Line: Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border
This is a vivid portrait of a place and its people, and a moving story of the West that has major implications for the nation as a whole. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ken Ellingwood, 2009
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Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy ...
"--Eliot A. Cohen, Johns Hopkins University "This book provides an excellent overview of the changes in conservative thinking on foreign policy by looking at the leading figures in each successive era, from Robert Taft to George W. Bush.
Colin Dueck, 2010
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For It's a Hard Line the Madness of Avalon Klynn
Todd continues on behalf of his reading audience the tale that began with The Madness of Avlon Klynn in this developing adventure series.
Richard Todd, 2009
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The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in ...
The Soviet bureaucracy was likewise divided into soft-line and hard-line institutions.87 A given policy sphere was typically dealt with by both institutions. Soft-line institutions dealt openly with the Soviet public, and their job was to present ...
Terry Dean Martin, 2001
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Space Planning Basics
tion can be very effective, particularly if the final product is to be reproduced. Similarly, despite conventions to the contrary, a combination of drafted or hard- line and freehand techniques is often quite effective, particularly when the hard line is ...
Mark Karlen, 2009
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Jet
New. ANC. Prexy. Mandela. Takes. Hard-line. Approach. To. South. African. Reform. South African activist Nelson Mandela, newly-elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), called for an interim government to rule while the ...
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Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr
CHAPTER. VI. A. HARD-LINE. MODERATE. BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION Brown may be the most important political, social, and legal event in America's twentieth-century history. Its greatness lay in the enormity of injustice it ...
John Calvin Jeffries, 2001
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The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How ...
I will distinguish what I will call a hard line approach, typified by the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, and more liberal approaches. It was the latter that offered scope for developments able to accommodate atomic or corpuscular theories of ...
Alan Chalmers, 2009
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The Synergy of One: Creating High-performing Sustainable ...
It is recommended that these top functional positions within each line of business report hard-line fashion to the functional discipline leadership and dotted- line fashion to the line of business leader. Solid-lining the reporting structure directly to ...
Michael J. Dreikorn, 2003
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Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
During the 1980s and 1990s, as the Christian Right became a major political force, a tension developed within the movement between hard-line ideological commitment and the calculated pursuit of power. On the hard-line side was a ...
Chip Berlet, Matthew Nemiroff Lyons, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD LINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hard line is used in the context of the following news items.
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Europe Takes Hard Line With Greece - WSJ
Europe Takes Hard Line With Greece. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says deal won't be made 'at all costs'. German Chancellor Angela ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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Europe is bracing itself for its most fateful day in years
If the German leader supports her finance minister's hard line later on Sunday, it may be that Greece cannot be saved. Der Spiegel in Hamburg ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
3
Judge takes hard line in bitter divorce
Judge takes hard line in bitter divorce. Three siblings are sent to juvenile detention after refusing a court order to have lunch with their father. «Press Herald, Jul 15»
4
Scott Walker set to revive abortion hard line on eve of presidential bid
Before his re-election last year, Governor Scott Walker struck a conciliatory tone on the issue. Now he's behind a bill to ban terminations after ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Judge takes hard line on fentanyl possession
It was only a small portion of a fentanyl patch and worth about $60 on the street, but an Ontario Court judge made it clear in a greater Sudbury ... «The Sudbury Star, Jul 15»
6
German Finance Chief's Hard Line on Greece Limits Angela …
Germany's hard line on Greece masks a divergence on how to tackle the crisis between the two most powerful people in Berlin—Ms. Merkel ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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Voters back Schäuble's hard line on Greece
A poll published on Tuesday shows that at the peak of their tough talk towards Greece, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister ... «The Local.de, Jul 15»
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Noonan: I have never had a hard line approach to Greece
Michael Noonan says he has never taken a "hard line" against Greece, as Eurozone finance ministers meet to discuss the country's future in the ... «BreakingNews.ie, Jul 15»
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Greece's future: In the end Germany, not Greece, may be the biggest …
Germany is using its size and wealth to compel its Eurozone partners to take a hard line toward Greece but in the end, Germany has much to ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
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Germany Maintains a Hard Line on Greece Debt After Vote
Germany continued to maintain a hard line with Athens on Monday, just a day after Greek voters decisively rejected a bailout deal from its ... «NDTV, Jul 15»

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