hard-nosed

How To Use hard-nosed In A Sentence

• Not before time, the executives charged with running the sport are taking a hard-nosed approach to an issue that has been intensifying for years. Times, Sunday Times
• The purpose of Renaissance 2010 was to increase the number of high quality schools that would be subject to new standards of accountability - a code word for legitimating more charter schools and high stakes testing in the guise of hard-nosed empiricism. Archive 2008-12-01
• As knowledgable adepts in Arabic and Farsi, for instance, they are in an excellent position to understand nuances that hard-nosed businessmen may not.
• For all their pretensions to being empirical and hard-nosed, most business decisions are guided by pure intuition and wild hunches.
• He left that image to dwell on and returned to it after the hard-nosed business audit was over and after he had walloped Hague and the shadow cabinet.
• A hard-nosed fiftysomething entrepreneur with watery hazel eyes and a voice that could cut through lead, Starkey is fond of grand pronouncements like “The age of service is upon us.” Inside the Billionaire Service Industry
• a hard-nosed labor leader
• The Italians have a huge pack and are physically very strong and hard-nosed.
• We all like John; he plays hard-nosed football.
• It is a hard-edged, hard-nosed, hard-boiled, in-your-face and deeply profane concept, and any approach contrary to that will once again flush film 1's legacy of emotional truth into the sewer of mediocrity, sealing the property away - perhaps forever - in the caverns of the untouchable. Robocop Screenwriter Says Darren Aronofsky is Still Attached | /Film