This view was more in line with Xiang's hard stance.

It was dramatic stuff but Wales failed to back up their hard stance and lost 29-9.

Mr. Owens, like his father, has taken a hard stance against the project.

Some of the parents, however, wonder whether the hard stance is also meant to warn them that life might be easier elsewhere.

But he must have read my determination to resist him in the hard stance of my body.

Moreover, her hard stance of exposing the facts does not go down well with the involved parties.

I had to take a very hard stance.

While Tagliabue seems to be taking a harder stance, executives close to him maintain he wants to do more.

I think if he were judging now, he'd take a hard stance on insider trading.

Goodman took a hard stance in support of the first amendment.