We should be hard-nosed with our trading partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2004] Reference

MOOS: While the hard-nosed Iraqi prime minister.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007] Reference

But he was hard-nosed, tough and a superb semanticist.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2003] Reference

It's one of those things where I'm a hard-nosed player.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nyjer Morgan's long week and thoughts on the brawl] Reference

The best plans use hard-nosed measures called "outcomes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Your Hmo Stack Up?] Reference

And Joe Lawless said that this is a hard-nosed interrogation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008] Reference

Here's the difference between hard-nosed politics and bad taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [1-800-Death] Reference

Why should a CEO take a chance with a really hard-nosed reporter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Big Media Missed The Big Story] Reference

These guys like Roger Cohen, they're very, very tough, hard-nosed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009] Reference

Herbert, in particular, earned a reputation as a hard-nosed dealmaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dysfunctional Discounters] Reference

I'm going to show that I'm a hard-nosed ballplayer and that's the way it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nyjer Morgan's long week and thoughts on the brawl] Reference

Monica and Marcia are at once affectionate and hard-nosed, guileful and naive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter's Secrets] Reference

And you don't see very -- the Pentagon doesn't seem very hard-nosed about this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Pentagon Spokesman Quigley Addresses Reporters About Spy Plane Row With China - April 3, 2001] Reference

In Chinatown, she forged alliances with hard-nosed thugs to back her operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snakeheads for Hire] Reference

The other thing is that the Beatles have always been very hard-nosed negotiators.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006] Reference

"A very hard-nosed squad leader" pushed McVeigh to become a squared-away soldier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suspect Speaks Out] Reference

"Much of this is a hard-nosed business relationship -- a marriage of convenience.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Buying A Better Army] Reference

And it's been achieved, Israelis can plausibly argue, through their own hard-nosed measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Needs Peace, Love, And Understanding, Anyway?] Reference

A hard-nosed prosecutor, Bennett warned that they were not going to chase rumors and hearsay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Wing Web] Reference

Scientists, they believe, may simply be too hard-nosed to spend much time on subjective matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isn't It Romantic?] Reference

But Iraq is -- they've got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2005] Reference

He's always stressed to be on the compassionate side, you know, don't be such a hard-nosed grinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Sarah Ferguson Interviews Tiger Woods - February 23, 2001] Reference

He covered the Vietnam War and 23 Latin American countries, assignments most hard-nosed reporters yearn for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of The Road] Reference

He forged his reputation on the hard-nosed politics of personal destruction during the Clinton administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2005] Reference

Only one side resembled a hard-nosed Premiership team and it was not the butter-fingered bunch in cherry and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exeter prepare for Welford Road after riding wind against Gloucester] Reference

Patrick Fitzgerald, a hard-nosed choirboy of a prosecutor from Chicago, broke with custom and began subpoenaing reporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheney's Cheney] Reference

Then I saw his New York governorship as the launchpad that would take this hard-nosed corruption fighter to the Oval Office.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Profile of an Ex-Governor in Exile] Reference

With the Saudi prince she played hard-nosed secretary of State, a disarming role to Saudi men unaccustomed to assertive women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did Saddam Blink?] Reference

And you'll miss having a pro on your side to negotiate with a hard-nosed buyer, or to help with those inevitable legal hassles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Estate: 4 Sale By Web Site] Reference

To lead the probe, the A.G. named John Durham, a hard-nosed veteran prosecutor who is assembling a team of deputies and FBI agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Scramble at the CIA to Lawyer Up] Reference

But while Random House and its hard-nosed contract are getting most of the publicity, the tempest extends throughout the book industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Owns The Word?] Reference

He acknowledged that fact at the time and gave his all to avoid trading his hard-nosed, attack-at-all-costs image for that of a crasher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jens Voigt says he’ll be back for one more year] Reference

By staking out such a hard-nosed, "We aren't going to talk," and now having to climb down from that, is that making the situation worse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2003] Reference