Adjective : enlisting hard-hat support for his policies.    From Dictionary.com. 

He says that will create thousands of hard-hat jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2002] Reference

I had a hard-hat job my whole life until I got sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Diagnosis] Reference

He ` s given up his hard-hat diving, his commercial diving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II] Reference

Xiaofeng Peng launched a hard-hat and latex-glove firm when he was 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [Partial Eclipse: LDK Solar] Reference

"This is a hard-hat area, " Strabismus warned, stepping quickly forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space]

Zac and I just returned from a hard-hat tour of the Booker T. construction site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Booker T. Washington Is Dusty and Noisy] Reference

He was handed a reinforced builder's hard-hat, but was not given gloves or boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Today a guy walking past wearing a hard-hat asked if I was excited and if I knew what it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 May « Mad Dave and Lil] Reference

A guy in a hard-hat, in front of a new construction site is talking about cereal -- a ten day plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movement Metaphors and Finding Heroes In Congress] Reference

The concourses were covered in dust, and the crowd consisted mostly of hard-hat construction workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Yankee Stadium, the voice Follows The Voice] Reference

Commercial construction is at a six-year low, and thousands of hard-hat workers have been kept off the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2002] Reference

Mr. Peng made his initial wealth from a latex-glove and hard-hat company he launched when he was 22 years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Partial Eclipse: LDK Solar] Reference

But even under the most optimistic scenario, not every hard-hat worker in America can make windmill blades and solar panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tilting at Windmill Jobs] Reference

Many features aren't yet available (they're marked with hard-hat icons) and there are too few subscribers to judge the forums.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple's Entry] Reference

I shall visit the Pigeon Loft and then later meet Owner/Contractor at the EPA Laundry, wearing my architect's hard-hat for the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raining] Reference

Why not just ask a few Navy SEALs or hard-hat divers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

The so-called "hard-hat tours" will begin in December.    From Wordnik.com.  [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference

Mistake free, focused, hard working hard-hat type players.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets Forever] Reference

His original square hat was upgraded to a construction hard-hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference

It even worked when I scrolled it over my construction hard-hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cult of Mac] Reference

On a recent hard-hat tour of the ongoing tunnel construction with.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Post: News] Reference

Martain said hard-hat wearing students who were with her are ready to go to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [KSDK.com NBC-St. Louis Education] Reference

That's where the hall's director, Winston Kelley, gave a hard-hat tour last week.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Kristina Keneally are also serial hard-hat offenders.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

However, Tesco's diversification into the hard-hat sector is thoroughly hard-headed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

But a hard-hat tour this week made it clear that it will be a very impressive facility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage] Reference

Yesterday the Dallas Zoo did a hard-hat sneak peak of its new Giants of the Savanna exhibit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine] Reference

"We were lucky to get access to the Red Sox warehouse," Remy said during a hard-hat tour yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

He rolled up his sleeves on three days rest, and gave a hard-hat performance (5-2/3 innings, three runs).    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

The media will get a first glimpse inside the new N.C. Museum of Art building during a hard-hat tour this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsObserver.com - Home] Reference

The legal community took a harder look at the real implications of exempting people from helmet or hard-hat laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleans.ca] Reference

The El Rincon taco truck was doing a brisk business with the hard-hat crowd this morning when I passed Heritage Square.    From Wordnik.com.  [wacotrib - Latest News Headlines] Reference

Ms Bligh stopped for less than 30 minutes for a hard-hat photo opportunity with MPs Lillian Van Litsenburg and Vicky Darling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

With a bit of professional curiosity, he watched as a small battalion of hard-hat wearing city workers handled the soaked scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference

They hope to funnel more money into the pipeline ahead of this year's construction season and give idled hard-hat workers a lift.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference