21.  ESPN appears to be taking a harder line because Disney is more worried about maintaining future distribution alternatives.

22.  For Mandela, the move to reform the chieftancy reflects a change in strategy from a harder line approach that had drawn widespread criticism.

23.  He exhorted the crowd not to worry about the international repercussions that could come from taking a harder line, pressing some of the hottest Israeli buttons.

24.  He has jettisoned many of his liberal advisers and replaced them with people who take a far harder line on the economy and foreign affairs.

25.  He is soon to hold hearings on the policy, hoping to embarrass the administration into taking a harder line by exposing its internal inconsistencies.

26.  He advocated a harder line in dealing with potentially hostile powers.

27.  He would probably take a harder line if a post-Yeltsin crisis developed in Russia.

28.  His remarks were welcomed by conservatives who advocate a harder line against Cuba.

29.  However, the voters in Israel Wednesday appear to have picked the harder line candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu.

30.  Hussain also criticized the leaders meeting in Birmingham for not taking a harder line against India by adopting tough sanctions.