Converse of object

• sack: Yeltsin reformed his administration by sacking the hard-liners and setting up a new balance between Lebed and Chernomyrdin.

• say: Ms. Farhi said the hard-liners also are shifting the debate from nuclear strategy to sovereignty.

Adjective modifier

• Western: A destructive ideological force drives both Western hard-liners and Islamic fundamentalists.

• real: Jakob was a real hard-liner and if he ever did have a sense of humor, he kept it very well hidden.

• old: And yet the man chosen to oversee agricultural reforms was that old hard-liner, Ligachev, who was not removed from power until 1990!