61.   The harder line from Tehran may have been prompted in part by scathing statements from the Taliban, who have imposed on Afghanistan a far more rigid Islamic system.

62.   The Missouri Synod puts a stricter interpretation on the words of the Bible, and takes a harder line against letting women become pastors, abortion and homosexuality.

63.   The Speaker of the Arizona House Mark Killian, took an even harder line.

64.   The speaker said the slights provoked him to take a harder line during the negotiations.

65.   The two candidates both promised a harder line in defense of Mexican immigrants.

66.   The U.S. is taking a harder line, and it has to do with the bilateral trade imbalance.

67.   The whole country appears poised to turn to the right, to take a harder line with the Palestinians.

68.   Their rivals, with the exception of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, have toed a much harder line against gays.

69.   They hanged Castro in effigy and demanded an even harder line from a White House that on Friday tightened travel restrictions and money transfers to Cuba.

70.   Today he talks of a much harder line with China, a force he sees as formidable and scary.