Hardline

The term hardliners information (eg, in politics ) those who against all odds ( " at any price" ) her - try to enforce policy and reject any compromise - often focused on a single target. It is usually connected with the fact that they have few inhibitions and the use of force: they often represent uncompromising a "hard line ".

Royal term environment

Often they are even with the "hawks " (English hawks ) equated. The parody or mocking term for hawks ( falcons), the verbal strongly for military options and " crackdown " generally advocate, even though little or no military experience (especially not on battlefields ) have, is Chickenhawks, so literally " chicken hawks " occasionally " chicken hawks " ( translated as Quitter falcons).

Were as latter and especially George W. Bush and called numerous members of his government, of which an unusually large number of whom avoided military service to him otherwise deprived - as has accused them in individual cases, illegally, for which the U.S. military acronym AWOL stands ( " Absent without Leave " to German: Unauthorized removal of the troops ) - or ableisteten him in the leg or home.

Moderate or even pacifist politician set are called doves (English doves ), which for the "hawks" in turn synonymous procrastinator and procrastinators, if not for cowards and weaklings (English cowards and weenies ) is.

Both Tags have their origins in heraldry and emblems ( sa emblem): The peace dove with the olive branch is in these fields similar spread as a symbol as the hawk or the eagle, the power, strength, aggressiveness and - in the case of the Eagle - rule. stand

Quotes from the media

" Grasser shall cease to mimic the hard-liners "

" At the Cologne conference against the Israeli security fence hardliners were at work "

" Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the biggest hardliners in the country? "

"With the hardliners that is such a thing, only they require the most radical way, and then back off. "

Term discrimination

In the political sphere Falken is also the name for children 's and youth organizations from the field of socialist or social democratic parties such as the Socialist Youth of Germany - " The Falcon " as an independent youth organization of the German SPD. In other countries, the term - each translated into the national language - as applied in this area, such as in the Czech Republic, where there are still a youth organization called the Sokol ( Falcon ).

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