Wal-Mart used to take a hard line on what its executives viewed as nuisance lawsuits.
The statement said the bank would take a hard line if any evidence of corruption arose.
Regulators say that they have been urging banks to take a hard line with nine struggling chaebol, including Kumho Asiana.
The memory of Mr Suharto's brutal suppression of Muslim activism also makes today's politicians more reluctant to take a hard line.
Salmon Chase, soon to be Treasury Secretary and a Seward antagonist, had been urging Lincoln to take a hard line with the South.
Mr Bush had insisted since September that the UN had to take a hard line with Iraq, or it would lose its credibility.
This adds to the pressure on General Musharraf, criticised at home for winning no important concessions from India, to take a hard line.
President Obama appears unlikely to push the Justice Department to take a hard line against state-sanctioned dispensaries, but a Republican successor could easily view things differently.
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The National Amateur Body Builders Association (NABBA) said it had not heard of anyone buying banned substances over the internet, but would take a hard line with any members who did.
Analysts have suggested both sides are engaging in showmanship, with Kroes and the Commission trying to demonstrate that they will take a hard line on antitrust matters while Microsoft dragging its feet but eventually planning to accede to the regulators' wishes.
It was odd, too, that the Qataris should take such a hard line and risk the deal foundering.
"If anything, he may have to take a hard-line policy as a way of proving himself to challengers or to these senior leaders, " Mr. Klinger said.
While the IRS has long had a program (recently beefed up) to pay informants, the Germans' decision to pay for hot documents--and other countries' willingness to use them--was a big step for the Europeans, who rarely take as hard a line against evasion.
Rights groups have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is serving his final year in office, to take a tougher stand against hard-line Muslim groups fomenting religious conflict in several parts of the country.
They are heading for confrontation, but this is only the first act - they are both stating a hard line, before the give and take of negotiations.
Even Ms. Merkel had some doubts about her finance ministry's hard-line insistence that Greece's bondholders take a loss.
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Bottom line, I believe that as Google moves forward with its mega-deal, it should take a hard look at who it is and what the Google brand represents to consumers, and make this the focus of its efforts.
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