1.   The platform also takes hardline approaches to the issues of immigration and crime.

2.   Indeed, in some areas the House and Senate appear to have taken a more hardline approach than the governor.

3.   Observers say Galaydh, who is currently visiting his wife and family in Minnesota in the United States has wanted to take a more hardline approach than the president.

4.   For his part, Netanyahu faces the greatest challenge to date to his hardline approach to peace with the Arabs and his resolve to preserve Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem.

5.   He is seen as having a hardline approach to foreign investment.

6.   Both sides appeared to be maintaining a hardline approach, with Sakamoto effectively blaming the US side for the impasse.

7.   But European diplomats say Washington fears their involvement will turn up the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to soften his hardline approach to peace with the Arabs.

8.   The United States had adopted a hardline approach, calling for an end to restrictions on profit repatriation and convertibility of profits into hard currency.

9.   They also submitted to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak recommendations drawn up over the weekend aimed at putting pressure on Israel to alter its hardline approach to the peace process.