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the team's hard-nosed coach doesn't make exceptions for anybody
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Their main thrust, not just on trade, but in security and defense, too, is to make a hard-nosed business case for U.S. involvement and support.
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Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
The sophisticated parsing of law and finance, the hard-nosed practicality of retail politics, and the workaday lilt of person-in-the-street interviews converge on the soundtrack and are reflected in images that are modestly but candidly communicative—uninflected but humming with passion.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
In this dangerous setting, the United States will need to rediscover diplomacy in its classical form—not as a bag carrier for an all-powerful military or as a purveyor of global norms, but as a hard-nosed instrument of strategy.
—A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
He’s made a career of playing hard-nosed heroes, wiseguys, and dirtbags.
—Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
The sophisticated parsing of law and finance, the hard-nosed practicality of retail politics, and the workaday lilt of person-in-the-street interviews converge on the soundtrack and are reflected in images that are modestly but candidly communicative—uninflected but humming with passion.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
In this dangerous setting, the United States will need to rediscover diplomacy in its classical form—not as a bag carrier for an all-powerful military or as a purveyor of global norms, but as a hard-nosed instrument of strategy.
—A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
He’s made a career of playing hard-nosed heroes, wiseguys, and dirtbags.
—Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hard-nosed
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“Hard-nosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-nosed. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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