1. We all like John; he plays hard-nosed football.

2. If nothing else, Doug is a hard-nosed businessman.

3. His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.

4. There will no hard-nosed trade negotiations on this trip.

5. Holbrooke has a justified reputation as a hard-nosed negotiator.

6. That was hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-drinking newshound Edgar Allan Poe.

7. Or the hard-nosed, insistent, tough approach.

8. To be very hard-nosed there is also a vested interest in running an efficient information service for a band.

9. For sheer bravado, hard-nosed business sense and a cunning understanding of human frailty, Agnes deserves admiration.

10. Philadelphia, which has a reputation for manufacturing tough, hard-nosed fighters.

11. Then they were going to march into the hard-nosed suburb of Cicero.

12. Hard-nosed policemen in unmarked cars belonged to a world of violence and intimidation he had no wish to enter.

13. The fact that you are very hard-nosed about weeding out unethical behavior helps.

14. He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer.

15. Sir Lewis' avuncular features mask a hard-nosed businessman unafraid of putting financial exigency before personal sentiment.

16. Its current experiment in Africa mixes a hard-nosed but clear-eyed self-interest with the lessons of China's own successful development and of decades of its failed aid projects in Africa.

17. A hard-nosed pragmatism is generally considered to be China's guiding principle at home and abroad: whatever produces growth in gross domestic product.

18. And a government-appointed receiver — someone hard-nosed and nonpolitical — should have broad power to revamp G.M. with a viable business plan and return it to a private operation as soon as possible.

19. Hard-nosed CEOs in the business world now recognize that in the era of networks and alliances, companies can make billions without beating others.

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

21. McGee is a hard-nosed "salvage expert" — actually a private eye who lives on a boat (called The Busted Flush) and is one of the most memorable detective characters since Sherlock Holmes.

22. For some one who worked in what she believed to be such a hard-nosed profession he retained a sensitive streak.

23. Breeding programs for apes are a failure, and even hard-nosed experimenters will be turning the tide.

24. The book is certainly authoritative but may well daunt the uncommitted reader by its relentlessly hard-nosed factuality.

24. try its best to gather and create good sentences.

25. Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis?

26. When it comes to day-to-day operations, the increasingly dire situation cries out for hard-nosed decisions and solid business management.

27. Its distinction is that it has combined campaigning lawyering with hard-nosed commercial practice.

28. Often former gang members and graduates of the prison system, the interrupters have a hard-nosed approach to law and order.

29. Whether he realizes it or not, that kind of hard-nosed, chip-toothed frugality is exactly what is called for in these economically tossed times.

1. We all like John; he plays hard-nosed football.