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Officials in Tripoli have continuously lashed out at suggestions that the regime's forces might be responsible for the suffering in Misrata, instead blaming the rebels, who they describe as "hard-core al Qaeda" fighters.

NATO Strikes Tripoli as Gadhafi Forces Shell Misrata Charles Levinson 2011

Yammi, who was forced into exile, is among those identified as hard-core liberals opposing the system as a whole.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Two girls are asking the assistant how to cook drisheen, the Irish black pudding which can only be described as a hard-core delicacy.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Tim was what you could call a hard-core drug taker and I had only known him to vomit after taking drugs if he had taken far too many or eaten mushrooms covered with cow shit.

Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010

Nothing was more important to the lawyers in the Reagan administration than appointing hard-core conservative judges and justices.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

These nones are not necessarily hard-core secularists, as we shall discuss in Chapter 4.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

This hard-core, deeply moralistic less tolerant tenth of the population gives us a glimpse of what a highly religious America might look like without Aunt Susan and my pal Al.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Rebel negotiators say almost all of the town's residents want to surrender but a hard-core few are holding out.

Rebels poised as Gadhafi loyalists desert Libya 2011

Rebel negotiators say almost all of the town's residents want to surrender but a hard-core few are holding out.

Rebels poised as Gadhafi loyalists desert Libya 2011

They seemed to in a study of the dreams of 64 hard-core gamers and 22 people who play less frequently—all former or current members of the U.S. or Canadian militaries.

Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2012