How To Use Hard-nosed In A Sentence
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Remember, he is more accustomed to interviews with fawning, gushy, fans, rather than with more hard-nosed journalists.
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This was a hard-fought victory by a hard-nosed team.
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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.
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As knowledgable adepts in Arabic and Farsi, for instance, they are in an excellent position to understand nuances that hard-nosed businessmen may not.
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For all their pretensions to being empirical and hard-nosed, most business decisions are guided by pure intuition and wild hunches.
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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.
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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
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a hard-nosed labor leader
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The Italians have a huge pack and are physically very strong and hard-nosed.
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We all like John; he plays hard-nosed football.
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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
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He was hard-nosed, as we would expect him to be, but he seemed to take a perverse pleasure in getting Calli to admit that she had just kissed Sarah moments before the assault.
James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre
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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.
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We can sometimes forget in the modern era that some eternal truths remain unchanged; rugby is a game for hard men and hard-nosed men.
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You must already have a reputation of being hard-nosed and tough for this to work.
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It's one thing to play games with the minnows, but companies as large as Honda and Renault are as hard-nosed as they come.
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It is this sheep-like loyalty that has turned many a hard-nosed businessman into a servile crony.
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Corporates are shedding their earlier aloof attitude and taking a more hard-nosed approach.
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Hence the need for real realism, for a view more clear-eyed and hard-nosed than we've had before.
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His methods fit what was probably the requirements of the time and place for a hard-nosed businessman.
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One, it was she and the circle of hard-nosed war hawks who hectored, badgered, and hammered Bush to launch the war that ravaged that country.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Condi's Moving Civil Rights Story Can't Trump Her Role in Bush's Despicable Iraq Folly
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The suggestion of a secret life led by the high-profile former sheriff has roiled the suburban Denver county where Sullivan was known as a hard-nosed lawman who served on a national law enforcement task force in the 1990s.
Reuters: Press Release
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He looks away, silent for a moment, then recounts the weeks of darkness and pain administered by hard-nosed soldiers.
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The hard-nosed realists in the OHL and their associates knew otherwise.
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But the hard-nosed movie critics in America were harder to impress, as the first reviews of the film published across the Atlantic showed yesterday.
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He's been described as a hard-nosed guy who skates well, wins face-offs, scores goals and finishes his checks.
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Arden was the daughter of a legendarily hard-nosed music promoter, Don Arden, and she inherited more than a little of her father's business acumen for which she was given little credit.
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He's been described as a hard-nosed guy who skates well, wins face-offs, scores goals and finishes his checks.
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It is this sort of hard-nosed pragmatism that has taken Edinburgh to the brink of history.
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The look on the face of a hard-nosed businessman who is stunned at what he sees, that can be rewarding.
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I cannot find anything I would consider out-of-line, and I'm a bit hard-nosed about those things.
Retiring in Mexico
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While McGee tried to force his way into the highlights, Trevor Booker made his way there through some hard-nosed play.
Rough schedule wearing on Wizards
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If nothing else, Doug is a hard-nosed businessman.
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The thought was rather alien to hard-nosed capitalist marketeers and took many years to secure a foothold.
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But some of the idealistic campaigners of yesterday are today's hard-nosed businessmen and women.
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The liberal arts began, in this atmosphere, to seem dilettantish by comparison to the hard-nosed managerial disciplines, with their problem-solving ethos and their convincing simulation of a scientific spirit.
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It's not all bad news for the former Chorlton convent girl, whose hard-nosed approach to her job earned a lot of admirers.
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The AFC North makes up for a lack of flashiness with Steel Belt fans, hard-nosed players, and old-fashioned smash-mouth football that's played outdoors.
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The pair are known as pragmatic, hard-nosed businessmen, and they are thought to have little sentimental attachment to the club.
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Although a hard-nosed pragmatist, Waugh was hurt that his batting was not given due credit.
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For some one who worked in what she believed to be such a hard-nosed profession he retained a sensitive streak.
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It was a brave call against a self-confessed battler who likes nothing better than a hard-nosed scrap.
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The softhearted utopian became the hard-nosed defender of the faith.
Bloodlust
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Has it taken until now for these hard-nosed businessmen to finally twig they have been sold one pup after another?
The Sun
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If Scout leaders really want to teach financial survival skills to a new generation, they need a much more hard-nosed approach.
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So perhaps the craze for entering beauty contests is based on some hard-nosed assumptions.
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The men who were the midwives of the Jewish state were hard-nosed realists.
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McCaw may be a hard-nosed businessman, but there is a starry-eyed visionary in him, too.
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However it seems increasingly clear that it has been well out of its depth in the hard-nosed world of big business that the health service has now become.
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If Alam's job as hard-nosed, aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction, Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology.
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In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying.
U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006
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There are two sides to her - the hard-nosed competitor you see on television and the mischievous imp that her friends know.
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Sir Lewis' avuncular features mask a hard-nosed businessman unafraid of putting financial exigency before personal sentiment.
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If nothing else, Doug is a hard-nosed businessman.
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His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
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His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
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The academic curriculum in the late 1950s, featured large doses of both hard-nosed and soft-headed psychology.
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A hard-nosed attitude says no, obviously not.
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Companies run by hard-nosed business people wouldn't be spending millions on it if it didn't work.
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Longshoremen rank with teamsters in the lore of hard-nosed trade unionists and Hobsbawm preferred their leader's politics.
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They were considered the epitome of hard-nosed business thinking about public problems.
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To protect against this requires a strong willed BOFH-style Operations team and the odd hacker if possible to carry out penetration tests, along with a hard-nosed Information Security officer to simple say "that's not going live".
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Far from seeming hard-nosed and realistic, they suddenly appear beside the point, if not immoral.
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Has it taken until now for these hard-nosed businessmen to finally twig they have been sold one pup after another?
The Sun
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They are wholly unfitted, by temperament and training, for the cut-throat, hard-nosed commercial environment in which they now find themselves.
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He is a tough, hard-nosed player who is playing with more emotion than ever.
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His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
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Should we pity a team that was one of the forerunners in the development of the slowdown, hard-nosed, tough-defending style that bored a generation?
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Kim Dae Jung is both a visionary and a shrewd, hard-nosed politician.
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He is a hard-nosed, free-spoken coach who cares little for glitz and more for guts.
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It is about hard-nosed business decisions, about skilling your workforce to build a competitive advantage for your business.
The Guardian roundtable | Time to trade up
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Could the lofty poet and the hard-nosed businessman be one and the same?
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It is this sheep-like loyalty that has turned many a hard-nosed businessman into a servile crony.
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Industry sources say that it was made clear that a more hard-nosed approach this time round would be welcome, especially so close to a general election.
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Then they were going to march into the hard-nosed suburb of Cicero.
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Yet, putting sentiment aside, land management has to be considered as a hard-nosed business.
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A hard-nosed unmoveable man, who sacrifices his lovely daughter to ward off future kidnap threats on his beloved son.
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The authors are crusaders for hard-nosed research and evaluation in particular, randomized controlled trials, the social science gold standard of anti-poverty programs to inform an idealized donor, foundation program officer or social investor of the future, namely, the perfectly rational decision-maker.
Jonathan Lewis: Social Impact Evaluation: Useful? Utopian? (Part 1 of 4)
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Everyone knows him as a hard-nosed, hard-rock leader who takes no jive, stands up for what is right and goes about playing the right way.
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Hard-nosed deals are coupled with extraordinarily good staff relationships.
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He was known as a hard-nosed officer who was solidly respected by his troops, and he’d handled tough assignments before.
Brotherhood of Heroes
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He is a hard-nosed businessman ready for any challenge.
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He catches the cramped, grotty frisson of the reporters' room, the professionalism instilled by hard-nosed old hands in the game, the lure of the bars in Vulcan Lane when the final edition had been put to bed.
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The secular left holds to a hard-nosed set of moral absolutes.
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The woman had a hard-nosed look to her, sporting a warrior's queue of green hair.
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But being a hard-nosed journalist or businessman does not require you to suspend basic humanity.
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