They had taken a hard line since the operation intensified.

"It's a crime against the economy, it's an attack on the economy," Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Wednesday as he defended the hard line taken against the miners.

Rubio, son of Cuban immigrants, is expected to take an especially hard line on Cuba and might quickly attempt to reverse the terrorism designation.

Critics tend to draw a hard line between the early, in-your-face garishness of Cronenberg’s low-budget films and the more polished, less bloody psychological meditations starting with 2005’s “A History of Violence.”

Giving him a face and a broken heart and Goldstein’s soulfulness asks us to reexamine our own hard lines — and wonder whether they’re protective or binding.