KHALILZAD: He is a tough guy, tough-minded as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2006] Reference

He's very tough-minded, as are his people about that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2004] Reference

EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: He is tough-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009] Reference

I think I'm still a tough-minded and compassionate guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2005] Reference

Most of the Executives were tough-minded, realistic men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

According to Binh, the tough-minded Hao had no such qualms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dubious Commerce] Reference

The result is a tough-minded guide to corporate realpolitik.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quick Read] Reference

And he really gave me such a tough-minded view of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2002] Reference

Some aspects of the New Covenant aren't new-or so tough-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tough Love From The Dems] Reference

Much of the success can be attributed to tough-minded management.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Road To Regret?] Reference

But America's new gymnasts are as tough-minded as they are talented.    From Wordnik.com.  [BACK FROM THE BRINK] Reference

They may become tough-minded lawyers who are great in the courtroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2006] Reference

And Iowans are people who are tough-minded, independent, full of hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2004] Reference

We're fast, deep, tough-minded and high-scoring — a classic Duke team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why You Hate Us] Reference

It's Leigh's loving but tough-minded salute to the creative process itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crazy For 'Topsy-Turvy'] Reference

It is a place for experience, for the tough-minded like Padraig Harrington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Whistling Straits is a course to make Tiger Woods wince] Reference

You'll hear no hymns to the glories of rep from the tough-minded Richardson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inheriting The Crown] Reference

But some of his more tough-minded aides have little use for national service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Soul' And Sell Of National Service] Reference

Unfortunately, the tough-minded Hillary we've admired wasn't on display in Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing With The Enemy] Reference

The director of "Mississippi Burning" is a tough-minded auteur with a fearsome temper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madonna Tangos With Evita] Reference

And we need people in the government who are tough-minded and feel a sense of urgency. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2006] Reference

Now the question is whether this tough-minded woman can endure at the top of Foggy Bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Is A Hawk] Reference

As they graduate and move into the work world, many black women stay just as tough-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Gender Gap] Reference

And they can teach a tough-minded acceptance of the fact that it's still, in many ways, a racist world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Color My World] Reference

Two tough-minded corporate lawyers trained to abhor disclosure, they never were eager to turn over documents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's Trouble] Reference

"Nobody's ever lost New Hampshire and not fired somebody," said Stuart Stevens, the tough-minded media adviser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pumping Iron, Digging Gold, Pressing Flesh] Reference

To decrease the odds of a gaffe, expect her to be carefully shielded from the questions of tough-minded reporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Tricky Calculation] Reference

His India, that "tough-minded, secularist ... outward-looking" culture, "is ending," and Rushdie cannot be a witness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught Between East And West, Rushdie Keeps On] Reference

If you want to call it ruthless to fire someone, be my guest, but that's not ruthless, it's decisive ... it's tough-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions And Answers: Tough Act To Follow] Reference

Susan Thomases, a tough-minded lawyer who is Hillary Clinton's closest confidante, had touted Baird as Clinton's White House counsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warm-Up Lessons] Reference

When the people see him as he is -- likable and tough-minded -- no TV one-liner will prevent him from being elected to a second term.    From Wordnik.com.  [KERRY 'WILL HAVE IT BOTH WAYS'] Reference

Would Clinton, as president, usher in a new era of tough-minded public altruism-or would he be the squishy prisoner of liberalism past?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting The Squish Factor] Reference

What he read was lyrical, yes, but tough-minded and visceral, too, as though his words were marinated in a peat bog and honed on flint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Coming] Reference

Davis, a tough-minded entrepreneur with an ego of his own, signed a five-year contract and says his commitment is permanent plus one day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aol's Competitor? Hmm...] Reference

And despite the virtuous manner, he is also a canny and tough-minded competitor with a history of knocking off heavily favored incumbents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul And The Steel] Reference