"The hard-core supporters of many of these people will come out and buy a book."

To some of his most hard-core supporters, that, indeed, may be the lesson of his visit to Turkey.

But the carefully balanced address still left China wary, while disappointing hard-core supporters of independence in Taiwan.

But there's hundreds of thousands of hard-core supporters in this state, some of them cops with access to crime databases.

A handful of the Mayor's hard-core supporters gathered outside the courthouse to sing religious and civil rights songs.

The book's hard-core supporters are now out of their comfort zone.

He had no desire to capitalize on the great depth of exuberance and loyalty felt by his hard-core supporters all over the country.

"They don't want to do anything in Cuba policy that would disillusion their hard-core supporters."

Yet a distinction must be made between soft- and hard-core supporters of the right wing.

Now the question is whether anyone, beyond the hardest of his hard-core supporters, will pay Mr. Perot any heed.