Even the most hard-nosed, Guantanamo-bay-indifferent potential foreign investor in the US must recognise that its financial system has collapsed.
The new hard-nosed management style is unpopular amongst employees.
How tough is it, for example, to engineer romance wearing a knitted tie in a hard-nosed newsroom?
What about Israel, a country that (in matters aquatic, as in much else) views itself as eternally vulnerable while its neighbours often regard it as a hard-nosed bully?
This hard-nosed approach irritated some foreign athletes, who had less chance to practise at the facilities than did their Canadian rivals.
This is the kind of hard-nosed pragmatism that gets results in public health.
We all like John; he plays hard-nosed football.
The second News Corporation is strategic and hard-nosed, bordering on stingy.
The decisions made by the two ministers to resign are departures from the hard-nosed, fight-to-the-finish tradition of politics.
If Terra Firma can't manage to muster empathy from a mostly working-class jury, he is unlikely to get it from hard-nosed investors.
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