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Roosevelt was one of the savviest [22]and most hard-headed politicians ever to occupy the White House.

The alliance should be a hard-headed "partnership of choice" serving national interests on both sides, he said.

He had always been a hard-headed, rationalistic fellow; but as he 'aged, the more tragic and humane aspects of life began to intrude.

But he has also taken a more hard-headed stance on the sort of "blue sky" projects that have long characterised Google's thinking.

In east Asia, at least, Mr Bush's foreign policy would embrace the hard-headed realism of his father, George H. W. Bush.

Miliband said the response by the European Union and NATO should be hard-headed engagement.

He was a lifelong Democrat, a representative of that dying breed, the hard-headed cold war liberal.

Most hard-headed business people are no doubt reluctant to make these arguments.

Germany did not become a role model by being hard-headed.

But the hard-headed approach is a sort of compliment too: banks are taking Africa seriously.

The move was "practical" and "hard-headed, " he said.

Of course, does not deviate from the path is not a hard-headed, on the other will indifference.

Some countries, like Britain, have large deficits and must take tough, hard-headed decisions to cut back and restore sound public finances.

But the hard-headed "realists" , strong believers in the notion of credible threats, also have reason to be pleased.

The irony is that Fechner set about this huge mountain of rather hard-headed measurements for quite whimsical reasons.

Finally "technocrats" is defined as cerebral, detail-oriented, fastidious, uncompromising, and hard-headed.

These "soft" principles are supplemented by a hard-headed approach to the allocation of capital.

But for the time being, circumstances at home and abroad favor those with hard-headed caution.

Williams was advised to stop drinking while expecting her son: "I was hard-headed and just kept on drinking. "

The Societies and their allegedly hard-headed scientist members, were lease less and rent-free.

US economic planners must take a hard-headed look at the jobs Americans can do better than other workers in China, India, Brazil or Germany.

Such moves must not be done on a charitable basis, but on hard-headed financial judgments.

The hard headed naval people in China might want this type of future direction, but there no sense of this from the leadership.

Some thorough research and hard-headed decisions can minimise our economic losses.

But, as with all its "soft power" initiatives, China has some hard-headed aims in mind.

The coalition promised a hard-headed foreign policy grounded in the national interest.

Yet in the real world of hard-headed economics, nothing could be further from the truth.

And when you are launching your venture, let nothing get in the way of sober, hard headed, objective assessment.

Hard-headed chemicals executives are not given to crystal-ball gazing.

Hard-headed I don't think Janet will change her mind. She's pretty hard-headed.

I don't think Julie will change her mind. She's pretty hard-headed.

He is a hard-headed person.

Are you calling me hard headed?

He was a hard-headed man he was brutally handsome

Hard headed does mean stubbon, they have the same meaning. It's an expression people use sometimes. L