31.   The hardball tactics of the local telco firms increased consumer choice by spurring the development of an alternative technology.

32.   The result of those hardball tactics, it would appear, has generally been resentment.

33.   Union organizers have sometimes responded in kind, using hardball tactics with the added bite of taunts that church people were failing to practice what they preached.

34.   Unless they resort to really hardball tactics, that would not play well before the jury.

35.   When the cases began surfacing a decade ago, the church first turned to hardball tactics.

36.   Bragman blamed hardball tactics by Silver for costing him support.

37.   The campaign has been marked by hardball tactics, largely aimed by Loren-Maltese allies at Moreno.

38.   The campaign was marked by hardball tactics, largely aimed by Loren-Maltese allies at Moreno.

39.   The hardball tactics worked, according to television commentators who praised the soldiers for acting as a deterent without provoking confrontations.

40.   The hardball tactics backfired, however.