1.   Once away from the rarified summit atmosphere, both leaders seemed forced to revert to their former hardline positions to please their respective domestic constituencies.

2.   Owners have been slow to take a hardline position on superstations and their impact on local telecasts.

3.   The hardline Republican positions emerged as a House subcommittee began hearings that are expected to produce the first wholesale revamping of American welfare policy in four decades.

4.   Palestinian officials have said such hardline positions were a declaration of war against the Palestinians and the peace process.

5.   And domestic politics are pushing both Pakistan and India to hardline positions, she said.

6.   Barak and acting Likud chairman Ariel Sharon held lengthy talks late Monday to restart negotiations that broke off several weeks ago after Sharon adopted hardline positions on peacemaking.

7.   Both came to the table holding a hardline position, which could make it difficult to find a solution that will allow both to claim victory.

8.   But divisions within the ethnic Albanian community and a hardline position by the Belgrade government have prevented any progress on a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

9.   But the hardline position proved untenable.

10.   Diplomatic sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington insisted that he be part of the team because of his hardline position against Iraq.