How To Use Hardball In A Sentence
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He's a nice guy, but he can play hardball when he needs to.
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Your only practical option is to play hardball: speak to the landlord and tell him that you are pulling out of the rental because of this issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both are playing hardball after it emerged their respective agents are trading secrets in the complex negotiations.
The Sun
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I have friends who've paid a lot of money to go to baseball fantasy camps to play hardball with ex-major leaguers.
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‘They play hardball, we play softball,’ Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile added.
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When he left home, to live above a restaurant as an apprentice, the chef played hardball with him.
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This was interpreted by most as a reality check, a warning that to play hardball with the contractors could be counterproductive.
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But the ex-England boss will play hardball over the fine details before saying yes.
The Sun
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Still, it wasn't hard to grasp the meeting's big theme, a bitter game of hardball between the haves and have-nots.
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Action aficionados should have nary a complaint with the quality of the hardball played here.
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Now Besiktas are playing hardball during talks over whether or not to take the 24-year-old international back early.
The Sun
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Eyewear is required in softball and hardball, singles and doubles.
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For instance, over here, we've got an elephant-footed, hardball-playing trustee who, when he isn't taking the lowest of roads (stationing guards at polling places, nixing study-abroad programs to score cheap political points and punish noisy critics, etc.), he's praying to the Lord or calling insufficiently pure Republicans "whores.
Dissent the Blog
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But these guys do play a splendid game of hardball, we must allow.
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Bet the parents really play hardball with fees over that.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she is playing hardball.
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So it is playing hardball in the negotiations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Open letter to live tweeting aborter Angie Jackson from father of teen who died from RU-486 abortion Pro-life group plays hardball with UCLA over graphic display of aborted babies Planned Parenthood of Houston plans posh grand opening gala for huge abortuary Hitler/abortion billboard makes international news; Polish pro-lifers on fire New Stanek WND column, "The copycat who stopped live tweeting her abortion
Abortion News and Information
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they play hardball in the Senate
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Ah ye hardball hey? Thats just my game!
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When such a lady - killer is after you, do not play too much hardball.
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For years I've played men's league hardball with my friend Brad, a fellow partner in our Cincinnati accounting firm.
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Ironically, one of the designated leaders of Bush's campaign to "marginalize" GOP conservatives who oppose illegal immigration is former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who in 2002 on "Hardball" called for the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from the West Bank.
Have Rove and Bush gone nuts?
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Hotels are 4 the obvious target here, but you have to play hardball.
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The event grew from there, as of course did the international game, which had pretty much displaced hardball as the game of choice in this country by the mid-1990's.
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But they do look ready to play hardball.
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Of course with an election approaching only a president with a backbone and the nerves to play hardball with Christie would tell New Jersey to first spend the money it owes the taxpayer before bellying up to the FEMA trough.
Joel Epstein: Hurricane Irene Is a Chance to Put Things Right in New Jersey and Washington
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In The Hill, he nicely untangles the web of money contributions and Washington hardball that led thirteen Senators to bully him into backing off.
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Then, once the real hardball begins - the, playoffs are a joy - most fans can no longer afford to go, Corporations buy up all the seats, bringing a joyless, almost dyspeptic, feel to arenas.
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Members of her campaign have spent countless hours justifying these hardball tactics.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other simple explanation is that Fox News can afford to play hardball because it has a ready-made replacement on hand: former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, a host with a similar appeal to Beck but with none of the downsides.
Glenn Beck's future at Fox News under threat | Richard Adams
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HuffPost's Sam Stein joined USA Today's Susan Page Thursday on "Hardball" to discuss Sarah Palin and her possible bid for president in 2012, along with pushback from people like Karl Rove.
HuffPost TV: Sam Stein On Palin's 2012 Bid: Looks Like 'She's A Go'
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He recognizes, after all, that these are "exceptional circumstances," but notes that, in exceptional circumstances, "hardball is called for," "hardball" being the traditionally favored nomenclature for threats to invade and destroy nuclear-armed, allied nations.
Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity
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Sixth grade is when baseball gets serious, and seriously frightening: You play hardball, and a kid with good mechanics can throw a ball 65 mph.
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Before Volunteer Stadium was built in 2001, teams wanting to play extra hardball were taken to sandlots around town to thump local Little Leaguers.
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Toymaker Mattel is getting ready to play hardball in an effort to persuade Hasbro to reconsider a merger.
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Apparently, "kos" doesn't think that smearing the juvenile teenaged daughter of a VP candidate for over a week, and all the other vicious lies told about Sarah Palin, counts at "hardball" enough.
The Sundries Shack
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But Angelos, one of the nation's leading labor attorneys, protracts most of his baseball negotiations, playing hardball with employees who can pursue better options.
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The Sox knew they had the Cardinals on the mat and they knew that no team in hardball history ever came back from a 3-0 World Series deficit
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It is a sign of how intense and increasingly toxic the race has become between the two, who pledged to rise above such hardball tactics.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, he's so pleased with his game that he's planning to join an amateur hardball league next season - just to get a little taste of his old major-league dream.
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He found one more clip of .45 ACP 230 gr hardball and decided to shoot it through the skyscreens but was now slightly elevated up a little slope from the bench.
Video Blog: Shooting Over A Chronograph
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If you read some of the dozens of spring previews, you'll read that your local hardball team had perhaps the worst offseason in all of baseball.
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(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Victims of clergy sex abuse blasted Catholic officials in Portland today for "playing legal hardball" in what they describe as a controversial and ground-breaking clergy sex abuse and cover up case
Salem-News.com
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Still, the White Sox were a delight, baseball players playing country hardball.
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We don't want our politicians to play the same game of hardball that our opponents play but whine and wring our hands when they win using those tactics.
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So far, Bloomberg has played a spectacular game of political hardball with the union.
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There is another MSNBC show called hardball where this guy has a debate with what he calls the hardball hotshots, and as much as he would like to think all views are covered, everyone of the hotshots are republican and support Bush.
Tomorrow-- The OpEdNews/Zogby Poll Asks Questions Progressives Want answers to
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No current Dem leader would threaten such a thing because under Washington rules, only manly Republicans are allowed to play hardball — for Democrats to play anything but softball is unseemly.
Matthew Yglesias » Late Lunch Open Thread
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There's a question as to whether politicians should play hardball and another question as to whether any particular instance of hardball is smart.
Yet more on 'hardball'
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Her warning suggests she is ready to play hardball and walk away from negotiations if they do not go her way.
The Sun
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Pearson was playing political hardball, using a pragmatic strategy designed to prise extra resources out of a conservative electorate and its government.
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From a former executive's point of view, suing your wife is the definition of hardball.
FDIC Sues WaMu Executives, and Wives
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Tollin assembled a documentary on the USFL for ESPN earlier this year, and has been involved with such recent inspirational sports pictures as Coach Carter, Radio, and Hardball.
ESPN and New Line Team Up to Release Inspirational Sports Biopic MULKEY – Collider.com
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Known to many as ‘Wrigleyville,’ the north side neighborhood serves as Chicago's sports Mecca, where the Cubs play hardball in the Friendly Confines.
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On Hardball and its like, egos run rampant, insider jargon predominates, and agreeability, if any can be detected, is strictly limited to commercial breaks.
J-School for Jerks
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I thought we were playing hardball,’ Ruth drawls and Faulkner frowns, appearing to be gravely insulted.
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| Reply | Permalink broadbrush: "Hardball Barack - Marquis of Queensbury does not apply.
Obama Campaign Releases Recording Of Alleged Dirty-Trick Call Targeting "Barack Hussein Obama"
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Ask the average squash player about the state of hardball singles in the US, and he will say that is probably just a few septuagenarians swatting a red pellet in the basement of some long forgotten club.
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The energy giants have played hardball - and a scheme to make them fund the handouts has proved unworkable.
The Sun
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Some of the banks playing hardball were those that have come through the crisis in much better shape.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other thing you may be referring to is the conversation at the end of the book that Leary had with a hardball Swiss political operative with various intelligence connections while he was in exile from the U.S. government in Switzerland.
Boing Boing
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Twenty-two coaches voted to switch to softball, seven to keep hardball.
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The team is seeking experienced players 16 and older with hardball, fast pitch or softball experience that have a desire to play at an elite international caliber.
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When Mark Penn went on Hardball, purportedly to disown Shaheen’s aspersions, he instead sharpened them by using the word cocaine on air.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
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She is playing hardball in a world dominated by men 20 years her senior.
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It formed part of an arms race of hardball tactics that ended badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kenneth Kane continues his recent good form, he is hoping to add the All-Ireland 60x30 softball to the hardball title he won earlier this year.
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This is the least penetrative of the conventional hollowpoint .45 rounds and, like all standard pressure 185 gr. loads, kicks less than hardball.
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Arguably the real source of all this hardball is increasing levels of partisan identification and ideological coherence.
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Harball
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On two consecutive nights of Hardball, Chris Matthews brought up this same trio as examples of Gore's "delusionary" thinking.
Going After Gore
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The photos depict women participating in every sport from ping-pong to pole-vaulting, from hunting to hardball.
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Unions engaged in contract negotiations say the company is playing hardball by trying to reduce benefits.
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Part two of the Money Programme series on banks looks at how claims are clogging the courts and how the banks are beginning to play hardball.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Jackson plays hardball, he will point to the massive contracts that defensive tackles are pulling down.
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Last year they moved the tournament to the Shore Racquet Club a few miles south in Somers Point and played hardball on softball courts.
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Softball nationals has more entrants than hardball nationals
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If she wanted to play hardball, then he was game.
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Indian board has been playing hardball.
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