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Examples of hard-core

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The hardcore itself is taken for granted and remains relatively insulated.
This 'hardcore' kept their mouths closed, and languished for years in detention.
However, many mainstream economists have retained a modified notion of individual rationality, expressing some conceptual continuity in the hardcore of the science.
The hardcore resulted from the neglect of frail, isolated, sick and dispossessed elderly people.
We propose that the population of those in long-term care in care homes represent the new hardcore.
But in the meantime, those still wanting sons were part of the hardcore.
This, concludes the author punningly, is genuine hardcore material, ' ' what it means to be, the rest all illusion.
Both hardcore and soft core had their families in mind.
In contradistinction, if "crazy" was the hardcore of the relationship, then the relationship could be classified as "crazy (known)".
But we come back to the hardcore of 12 to 15 percent who just refuse to conform.
Mathematics has an objective, ever-expanding hardcore, the growth of which is conditioned by socially and historically determined images of mathematics.
The music ranged through the various dance styles from frenetic hardcore and jungle to the more gentle ambient.
However, the second argument strikes even "hardcore" retributivists as peculiar.
This hardcore consisted of older and more devoted members, but they were probably less vigorous and did not proselytise to the same extent as before.
As those with shorter sentences who did not reoffend were able to take off their crosses, the remaining cross-wearers were identified as a hardcore of heretical sympathisers.
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