(1) I want us to play hardball on this issue.

(2) He's a nice guy, but he can play hardball when he needs to.

(3) She is playing hardball in a world dominated by men 20 years her senior.

(4) Well, we can play hardball, too.

(5) It was the same nasty hardball every workman knew to expect.

(6) This is playing hardball, but it is hardball of a sort familiar in these dealings.

(7) Toymaker Mattel is getting ready to play hardball in an effort to persuade Hasbro to reconsider a merger.

(8) I don't propose this turn to policy hardball lightly.

(9) Mr. Lewis plays hardball. - Yes, yes, I do.

(10) Do you want to hardball? I'm game.

(11) It looks like our competitors want to play hardball.

(12) Maybe we should play hardball.

(13) Ah ye hardball hey? Thats just my game!

(14) They play hardball in the senate.

(15) Banks are building up their capital by playing hardball with their customers.

(16) Duncan believed it was old - fashioned hardball(), the game he had known all his life.

(17) So the Mayor wants to play hardball, and we're getting caught in a squeeze play.

(18) He parked and when I got out he was holding two baseball mitts and a hardball.

(19) I began to understand the style of working in D. C. It was a place where people played political hardball.

(20) The Deputy Prime Minister told reporters that Canada was ready to play hardball with the US.

(21) PITTSBURGHThe Steelers and Pirates found out voters can play hardball, too.

(22) It is clear that the company is ready to play hardball with the unions.

(23) When such a lady - killer is after you, do not play too much hardball.

(24) And increasingly we feel the need to match the Republican right in stridency and hardball tactics.

(25) When such a lady-killer is after you, don't play too much hardball.

(26) Mr. Jones got where he is today because he always played hardball with his political adversaries.

(27) Dukakis has a history of enduring, even excelling at, hardball campaigns.

(28) Sometimes you just cannot compromise and have to play hardball.

(29) If you want to win this game, now it's time to hardball.

(30) Our competitors are using tactics that indicate that they want to hardball.

(31) Another problem is that banks are playing hardball with smaller companies.