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No, but he's hard-nosed, a capable distributor and a good enough shooter that teams can't double off him to help on Dwight Howard.

I keep forgetting that you males can be just as hard-nosed as a woman!

On graduation he worked in the Nixon administration, setting out his philosophy in a 1973 memo: "I take a hard-nosed critical approach. "

A day later the Bank of England abandoned its hard-nosed attitude to greasing the money markets (see article).

As a child, the young Nancy learned hard-nosed political skills from her politician father.

Airliners are big-ticket items, sold to hard-nosed businesses at a rate of only a 1, 000 a year, even in boom times like today.

He was a conservative, and hard- nosed about many things, but he was a decent man and a strict Constitutionalist.

AMERICA'S hard-nosed politicians are not always moved by lofty rhetoric, but talk about money normally gets them going.

Not only is she beautiful, she's also a talented, hard-nosed reporter who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of a story.

Above all, Global Zero had to stand for a realistic process that was phased, multilateral, universal and backed by hard-nosed verification.

A former reporter from a family of journalists, she is known for her fiery temperament and commitment to hard-nosed reporting.

A test-ban treaty requires hard-nosed talks among the nuclear powers, backed by tough verification measures.

The hard-nosed attitude of Ms. Ma, the BMW woman, earned her a gentle reprimand recently from the film director Zhang Yimou.

and for hard-nosed strategists, states that hardly work are places where terrorists could step into the vacuum.

Edward: I had a real hard-nosed boss. He didn't allow creative thinking and did everything by the book. I couldn't stand it.

Indeed, the two men appear to be finding common ground, with the hard-nosed Mr. Li often relenting.

I say he's a tough, hard-nosed type of guy who played with every inch of his body physically and mentally.

Even sceptical and hard-nosed Western diplomats and analysts have been surprised by the pace of change.

Henley supplies the softer management skills and corporate contacts, Reading the hard-nosed academics and research capabilities.

It would be nice to report that a small band of hard-nosed Republicans was bringing fiscal restraint to California.

If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose , or pay too much money, for an object or service.

Ironically, in doing so, China's leaders have managed to create the most hard-nosed state-run cultural institution on the planet.

To avoid such pitfalls, Pepperberg designs experiments with the care of a hard-nosed skeptic.

But hard-nosed criminals have seen that it involves enough real money to be worth casing.

Rather than being a hard-nosed venture capitalist, he is more like a financial father-figure to young entrepreneurs.

Playing on the police show he's on, he does present a hard-nosed, law-and-order-type guy.

This is the kind of hard-nosed pragmatism that gets results in public health.

If Terra Firma can't manage to muster empathy from a mostly working-class jury, he is unlikely to get it from hard-nosed investors.

The logic is hard-nosed, even cynical, especially towards Russia's former Soviet neighbours.

His wife, who is viewed as more hard nosed, is held in high esteem for being the daughter of Kim Il-sung, founder of the nation.

Still, as Dr Zyphur is keen to note, not all academic work has to be about hard-nosed application in the here and now.

The statement accompanying the decision was, at first glance, hard nosed.

They know this is the glory of God the deficit, but still his heart as a hard-nosed, do not want to repent.

"Hard-nosed little runt, that Kami, " Jack said admiringly .

Dates become a series of business negotiations, often hard-nosed.

This hard-nosed approach irritated some foreign athletes, who had less chance to practise at the facilities than did their Canadian rivals.

The second News Corporation is strategic and hard-nosed, bordering on stingy.

Partly because he is surrounded by hard-nosed strategists, such as David Axelrod, who excel at campaigning.

How tough is it, for example, to engineer romance wearing a knitted tie in a hard-nosed newsroom?

Ex: My father is a hard- nosed man.

That's the thing you see, he wasn't hard-nosed or rude about not talking about himself;