Fromsoft +line +-er, modelled onhard-liner.
soft-liner (pluralsoft-liners)
- (rare) A person who holds amoderateposition and may be willing tocompromise, as opposed to ahard-liner.
2012, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, Sona Nadenichek Golder,Principles of Comparative Politics, page299:At this node thesoft-liners must decide whether to do nothing and stick with the status quo or to open up the political regime.
2016, Jan-Erik Lane, Hamadi Redissi,Religion and Politics: Islam and Muslim Civilisation, page222:[…] a realistic deal between “hard liners” and “soft liners” that would result in a sort of limited and explicit “partial-inclusion pact”[…]
