This is both healthy and, more important, potentially more productive than North Korea's hard-nosed style or America's hard-line tactics.

Jaza didn't want to admit that he'd had the same thoughts, had wondered whether the Alliance was provoking the violence with its hard-line tactics.

The settlement represents a striking turnaround for the archdiocese, which under Cardinal Law used hard-line legal tactics to resist lawsuits from sexual abuse victims.

In Washington, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, sought to calm fears that the apparent breakdown might lead to more hard-line tactics.

"The average Indonesian does not agree with these hard-line tactics or this radical mindset, but no one is willing to step forward and oppose them."

The benefits could be reinstituted retroactively as part of a settlement, but the commissioner's hard-line tactics haven't particularly charmed Mike Gartner, the president of the union.

Maybe he was something more than the happy-go-lucky charmer who offset Carver's hard-line tactics.

In those years, Argentine's police used hard-line tactics against drug addicts and had very little education about how to deal with them effectively.

At the same time, all four candidates favor some form of community policing in lieu of the mayor's hard-line tactics.

In the face of escalating violence, the junta announced a switch from defensive to "hard-line" tactics and an improvement of efforts to crack down on narcotics abuse by insurgents.