The loss of the Crimea might well be the final blow to Marshal Krasilnikov's hard-line rule of what was left of Russia.

A strike would set back Iran's nuclear programs by only five years or so, but it would consolidate hard-line rule there for at least 25 years.

Her anonymous crowds waiting for orders are images of obedience under hard-line ideological rule.

He has never pushed hard-line Islamic rules like veils for women in the neighborhoods that Hezbollah controls, which analysts attribute to his exposure to many of Lebanon's 17 sects.

But nothing would revive Moscow's military-industrial complex or restore hard-line rule quicker than such a threat.

The summit meeting opened against a backdrop of sweeping popular demands in Eastern Europe for democratization and an end to hard-line Communist rule.

It's simply not their area of expertise, and so they try very, very hard to avoid setting hard-line rules on the various patent requirements.

Poland's new Government ordered an investigation today into crimes committed during the era of hard-line Communist rule in the 1940's and 1950's.

Another source of optimism in some quarters is the belief that hard-line rule in Beijing is unsustainable.

Parliament tonight approved Albania's first non-Communist Cabinet in the postwar era, formally breaking the grip of hard-line rule.