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tough-minded

ADJECTIVE
  1. facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination

How To Use tough-minded In A Sentence

  • But even if tough-minded businessmen and a reform-minded government make all the right moves, B.C. is going to be a far different province in the 21st century.
  • At the same time, this next generation of women is too practical, pragmatic, and tough-minded to be dismissed as ideologues.
  • Oklahoma in my estimation is as tough-minded a team as there is in the country," Giacoletti said. USATODAY.com
  • That injects his analysis with a tough-minded realism that is often lacking in challenges to the hawkish view of the world.
  • Given the fiery contentiousness that defines our current academic milieu, we would do well to emulate the tough-minded but collegial exchange between Howe and Ellison.
  • Therein, perhaps, lies a clue: wherever it is, whatever he is, he would wear it with a certain equable tough-mindedness, a discreet cynicism tinged with self-deprecating irony.
  • The worldly, tough-minded economist has joined the other-worldly, woolly minded theologian or classicist in the literary repertoire.
  • Chris Brand reports poll results showing that the average Brit is a lot more tough-minded than the British government.
  • What makes Whiteman sexy, according to Bobo, is that she isn't flashy like Sarah Palin, but rather "detail-oriented, managerial, tough-minded, effective but a little dry. Allison Kilkenny: Celebrating Pretend and Cruel Conservatives
  • Now there's an opportunity for getting on all fours in a hard-headed, tough-minded way, with a government which is trying to do the right sort of thing.
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