They fought off a hard-nosed, offensively inept Pacers club and then a hard-nosed, offensively inept Heat club.
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But hard-nosed bettors have come down heavily for the Panthers.
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He has forgotten Ferguson's volatility, his ruthlessness, his hard-nosed pragmatism.
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And Washington managed to achieve this through principled, hard-nosed diplomacy.
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But other publishers do, and some are even more hard-nosed.
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The late Mr Lee was much more hard-nosed about such things.
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Ahead of him stood two fiercely intelligent, successful and hard-nosed women.
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That is the sort of hard-nosed attitude I've been up against.
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At first glance, the decision appeared motivated by hard-nosed business acumen.
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He asks Connery, a hard-nosed policeman, where the illegal distilleries are.
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Ron Rivera is traditional, hard-nosed and just what the Redskins need
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He is strong and he's hard-nosed and he's going to keep going.
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He was known as worldly, curious and courteous, as well as hard-nosed.
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"It is as hard-nosed a company as America has seen," said Nelson.
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"He played rugby, and he's got this hard-nosed Philly edge," Rapp said.
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On the floor, he's that old-school, Southern, hard-nosed type of coach.
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He also influenced the culture of the game, through his hard-nosed stoicism.
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They will offer Putin a new and positive relationship based on hard-nosed realism.
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What this hard-nosed scientist answered is shocking at first, then somehow seems obvious.
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"It was really an exciting, hard-nosed, hard-fought, well-deserved win," Carroll said.
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A pragmatic approach African Parks has a more hard-nosed approach to elephant conservation.
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And this book inspires you to be more practical, hard-nosed, and persuasive.14.
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"What is needed are hard-nosed proposals for pragmatically improving our institutions," he wrote.
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Mr. Hary has a reputation for being hard-nosed in both business and politics.
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The Yiddishkeit emerged only at the end, and in a hard-nosed, percussive fashion.
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The drawings are at once fairly hard-nosed fact if you know your science.
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But for government agencies, hard-nosed investors and cash-strapped shoppers, information is not enough.
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Hard-nosed investors would scrutinise their books and put pressure on them to perform well.
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He's a hard man with hard-bodied women and a hard-nosed drive for success.
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The role of the hard-nosed movie producer seems tailor-made for Saif Ali Khan.
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You can tell upon meeting him that he comes from a hard-nosed military background.
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"They'll bring in some hard-nosed realism of what war looks like," Mr. Barno said.
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The goal is a Europe in 2024 that is more confident, sovereign and hard-nosed.
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Hopefully we keep playing that hard-nosed style of hockey, that playoff-style of hockey.
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Since 2015, however, the Tories have turned a hard-nosed welfare policy into a punitive one.
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The hard-nosed case for tough sanctions is even stronger when it comes to the economy.
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It's time to pick hard-nosed people to cut through things and figure out a deal.
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Europe enters the 2030s as a more hard-nosed figure, with a patchwork of shared interests.
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Mr Trump played a hard-nosed businessman on TV, but Mr Murray is the real thing.
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But friendly gestures will only get you so far in a hard-nosed battle over money.
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The songs are bumpy, hard-nosed and propulsive, battling for every small triumph. Columbia. Oct. 7.
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Ms. Clark, for her part, said that hard-nosed economics was reason enough to stay home.
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Hard-nosed business people come to me all the time and volunteer to create social businesses.
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From Meryl Streep to numerous hard-nosed, tough-talking political operatives, they all sang her praises.
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LSU: New look Tigers: LSU has forever been known for hard-nosed, ground-and-pound football.
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It also employs a number of hard-nosed policies aimed at compelling people to plead guilty.
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She is also probably the toughest and most hard-nosed progressive on the scene right now.
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So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.
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All the tough, hard-nosed plays that have to be made, he always seems to make them.
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On the field, Smith was known as a hard-nosed enforcer who refused to bow to opponents.
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Under Thibodeau, Towns and Butler ought to coalesce into some sort of hard-nosed transcendent basketball force.
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Before the budget, universal credit was less generous than the already hard-nosed benefits system it replaced.
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The show follows the Herald, a liberal, overly-earnest broadsheet, and the Post, a hard-nosed tabloid.
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His hard-nosed line vetoing of budgets ultimately saved the state $7.3bn in spending over eight years.
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After being cut repeatedly, it is a hard-nosed scheme—more so than the benefits it replaces.
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These days European diplomats mutter that only the hard-nosed seem to get results from Mr Trump.
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Only 5 feet 8 inches tall, he's known for his gritty, hard-nosed play on the ice.
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That was enough for hard-nosed Detective Trump to conclude his year-long investigation into Russian interference.
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Their design owes more to hard-nosed economics than it does to the mysteries of the heart.
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Maybe it's hard-nosed defense and a star-less share-the-ball ethos that floats your boat.
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Such arguments wouldn't cut much ice with hard-nosed politicians if it weren't for two other factors.
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Deng, 31, is a hard-nosed, defensive forward who can play multiple positions and provide solid offense.
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But perhaps more than anything, the show heavily featured something considerably less glamorous: hard-nosed media criticism.
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So far, though, it seems like industry fantasists won't even listen to hard-nosed government defense analysts.
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Thatcher was known as the "Iron Lady" due to her hard-nosed, no-nonsense approach to politics.
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Ms. Wolf directs him and the others with obvious compassion, though more hard-nosed clarity might help.
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His predecessor had just won a state championship, but he had also been hard-nosed and profane.
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"He noted Oracle&aposs reputation as a hard-nosed vendor who can be "very tough with customers.
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"He was a tough, hard-nosed guy," said John Wangler, a quarterback during Mr. Hackett's senior year.
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Stoicism can turn into a kind of flamboyance — hard-nosed commitment to form is rare and electric.
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Should they play hard-nosed politics to punish Republicans for the way they treated President Obama's nominee?
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It's easy to call for more meaningless sanctions in order to pose as the hard-nosed president.
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So when I play up, it's more hard-nosed defense and I have to use my IQ more.
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Tata and other firms in climate-stressed India have long taken similar steps, for similarly hard-nosed reasons.
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"I heard he was a hard-nosed, blue-collar type of player that didn't scare easily," Mackanin said.
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As for Congress, they're going to get the hard-nosed sales pitch from the Trump regime this week.
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At the same time, he goaded a stubborn, hard-nosed society with his stinging jabs against pervasive racism.
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The watch transforms the hard-nosed investor into a child who's just opened the best birthday gift ever.
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For all the unabashed sentimentality of their lyrics, they were hard-nosed about their work behind the scenes.
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"When he was congressman, he was a tough, hard-nosed congressman," said Tom Ingram, a senior campaign adviser.
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However, the Russians may underestimate the robust, tough and hard-nosed policies the Trump administration would hopefully pursue.
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Rather than spark a discussion, McGarry's bold move at their March 2 meeting triggered a hard-nosed response.
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He sang with full-throated conviction, utterly hard-nosed within the songs but grinning and thankful between them.
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The gesture may also convince those suspicious of Huawei's tech that the firm's business intentions are hard-nosed.
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We have a different point of view: hard-nosed policies and strategies are worthless without a good story.
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Fullbacks are still hard-nosed workhorses, but now they come in all sizes and with disparate skill sets.
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His supporters insist that the hard-nosed style he was known for in early years has softened somewhat.
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The Trump administration has been working for months to develop a new, hard-nosed federal policy on homelessness.
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In a sense, he embodies the movie business he hopes to dominate: calculating, impulsive, hard-nosed, and hopeful.
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Her reputation, as a hard-nosed rebounder and defender, has been in the background of her son's career.
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She used to be an Olympic-level freestyle skier coached by her hard-nosed therapist father (Kevin Costner).
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A whole building of hard-nosed journalist who cover floods, fires, assassinations and everything else just stunned into silence.
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But alongside the futuristic vision runs a hard-nosed, opportunistic appreciation of the power of capital to create winners.
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Another, a hard-nosed businessman called Jamaal, increases his price to 50 rupees, from 30, when the temperature drops.
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In response Hong Kong leaders have tried thus far a mixture of patience, contrition and hard-nosed police tactics.
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For more liberal Democrats who have rallied around hard-nosed resistance to Mr. Trump, the results are often frustrating.
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Even hard-nosed political observers, including Nate Cohn and Nate Silver, pointed out she would be a real contender.
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Frank was a hard nosed baseball player who did things on the field that people said could never be done.
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Virginia Tech entered Thursday's contest averaging 121.5 points but was no match for the hard-nosed defense of Saint Louis.
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Some newly minted governors have found their first encounters with a hard-nosed political press corps to be a shock.
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R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt.
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The Americans arrived in Toronto with a roster full of hard-nosed players who were assigned to slow down Canada.
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Still, the shift was significant, suggesting the company might be becoming more hard-nosed as it faces pressure to expand.
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" Trump, according to Rettig Gur, is "best handled as a reality television star rather than a hard-nosed policy challenge.
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"Proximity" otherwise features a balance of simmering idylls and hard-nosed sparring sessions, with drums and saxophone always mutually engaged.
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New York (CNN)There's a new battle brewing between the White House and a hard-nosed member of the media.
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But in 17 years, I've never had a colleague suggest that my religious beliefs kept me from hard-nosed reporting.
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"He's just a really nice guy," said Andrea Fraser, a peer of Mr. Haacke's known for equally hard-nosed work.
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Chairman Jerrold Nadler Nadler, 72, is a hard-nosed New York City attorney who has long been a Trump antagonist.
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One is through hard-nosed, challenging diplomacy and the other through the launching of a brutal and bloody preventive war.
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In other words, the U.S. has every right to a respectful, hard-nosed negotiation with Mexico over trade and immigration.
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Center-left liberals will remind us that Obama's biggest legislative accomplishments were products of hard-nosed dealmaking, rather than mass action.
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Cross-country analysis of welfare policy is scanty, but it suggests that the reforms in Britain have been especially hard-nosed.
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Hard-nosed private investors have turned away from water, reluctant to risk vast sums for uncertain returns stretched across future decades.
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This is the mess inherited by John Flannery, a hard-nosed GE veteran who took over from Mr Immelt in August.
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One is narrative bias — we all, even hard-nosed journalists, get captured by significant stories and tend to pile onto them.
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If the Panthers win the Super Bowl, they will prove that a hard-nosed rushing attack is as valuable as ever.
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Rita (April Bowlby) may have been hard-nosed and manipulative, but she was playing by the patriarchal rules of classic Hollywood.
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What's different: Sources familiar with the document call it "hard-nosed" and "realistic" — and less ambitious and idealistic than prior efforts.
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Anisimov said it was no coincidence that his first two goals came on hard-nosed plays in front of the net.
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It was a triumph for a Leave campaign that had conspicuously failed to answer the obvious hard-nosed questions about Brexit.
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That's why Kavanaugh, with his hostility to independent, hard-nosed, unbiased investigation of presidential wrongdoing, shouldn't be on the Supreme Court.
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"Hard-nosed capitalism helped create the Heavenly Kings and Queens," Wong said, using a term reserved for the very biggest stars.
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The song arrives in a psychedelic vocal-harmony haze but soon solidifies into a hard-nosed sketch of a desperate situation.
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But considered as a whole, this season's hard-nosed inquisition into the cost of long-term conflict stands up to scrutiny.
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"A hard-nosed, tough coach who demanded that toughness from his players," said Brian Cabral, who played for Mallory at Colorado.
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The hard-nosed Cook, who has occasionally emerges on earnings calls and in interviews will probably result in some sharp retorts.
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Why on those increasingly infrequent occasions when Afghanistan attracts notice do half-truths and pettifoggery prevail, rather than hard-nosed assessments?
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In the hard-nosed "La Jungla" ("The Jungle," 1943), Lam, as proto-Afrofuturist environmentalist, depicts natural hierarchy being surpassed by vitalist horizontality.
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The sterling hit a 31-year low against the dollar this week following rhetoric of a potential hard-nosed approach to Brexit.
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If he becomes Judiciary Committee chairman as expected, the hard-nosed attorney would lead the panel handling any effort to impeach Trump.
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A real scientist should avoid any and all anthropomorphism, which is why hard-nosed colleagues often ask us to change our terminology.
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"Trump's hard-nosed style does not play well on Capitol Hill," said Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
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Beyond the specifics of the legislative rules, however, Republicans simply approached Obama-era policymaking with a new spirit of hard-nosed cynicism.
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Making America great again, he argued, required discarding humanitarian agendas and value promotion, and embracing a hard-nosed pursuit of American interests.
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A cop with the looks of a model and the instincts of a social worker, Casey is hard-nosed and big-hearted.
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The Cougars had come back from an 11-point halftime deficit by playing hard-nosed defense and frustrating the bigger Wildcats inside.
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The CSU's hard-nosed approach with Merkel on immigration had only boosted the AfD and driven away liberal CSU voters, he added.
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In a large newsroom of hard-nosed reporters he occasionally socialized with, he didn't have a reputation for partying or erratic behavior.
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He earned a reputation as a hard-nosed manager who drew up rigorous business plans and kept close track of their progress.
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Other Chinese take a more hard-nosed approach, embracing Mr. Trump because of the advantages that they see him offering to China.
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But Ms. Haspel's strategy in the March briefing was to pair emotional appeals with her hard-nosed realism and it proved effective.
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It is much more hard-nosed commercial calculation: 'Who are the big names, who has the power and who can help me?
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Playing with the Western Hockey League's Red Deer Rebels, he had become known as a hard-nosed player willing to fight anyone.
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Axios reports sources have said the document is "realistic" and "hard-nosed," adding that it is not as idealistic as previous strategies.
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Rod Brind'Amour, a hard-nosed center who was Carolina's captain in 2006 when it won the Stanley Cup, became the head coach.
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Putin is unlikely to go along, but they would offer the Russian president a new and positive relationship based on hard-nosed realism.
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He prefers a more hard-nosed approach, focusing on exercises and drills reminiscent of the kind he learned in the former Soviet Union.
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But this time they had an undisputed leader—Robert Lighthizer, the hard-nosed United States Trade Representative—and a clear set of demands.
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In its home town of Bentonville Walmart seems a very American company, its culture a blend of sunny encouragement and hard-nosed capitalism.
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He didn't speak Russian, so he relied on his translator, a hard-nosed woman named Gulmira, to act as a sort of barometer.
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Old-time hockey is a fucking myth perpetuated by a bunch of hard-nosed Canadian pundits and Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers fans.
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His administration's increasingly hard-nosed policies can steer China away from a course that is leading inevitably to outright conflict with the West.
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And he connects handily with the bassist Reginald Veal and the drummer Jeff (Tain) Watts, favoring a hard-nosed, loose-limbed polyrhythmic swagger.
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Rapinoe and her teammates made sure to console them, to offer some words of solace: they are human, hard-nosed but not hardhearted.
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A deserved yellow for a tackle from behind from Masoud Shojaei of Iran, whose defense has been hard-nosed to say the least.
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The Ausgrid sale does not require Senate approval but could be raised as a bargaining chip by hard-nosed independents and minor parties.
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It's an unfamiliar situation for the ordinarily hard-nosed retired Marine general, who has insisted upon military-like rigor in the West Wing.
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He is known for his hard-nosed approach to negotiations, a trait that is likely to sync up nicely with his new boss.
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Potentially standing in the way is Mr. Singer's Elliott Management, a hard-nosed hedge fund with experience battling for control of bankrupt companies.
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Comey is a Republican, but has established a reputation over his decades of work as being a hard-nosed officer of the law.
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If Lamas isn't available, hard-nosed veterans Clay Guida and Darren Elkins would also make logical welcome committees for a reanimated Korean Zombie.
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For years he has treated Neza as his personal laboratory, trying a wild mix of hard-nosed reforms, harebrained schemes and fanciful experiments.
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Fuhrman was in fact "cocky" and embodied the "hard-nosed white cop detective attitude" that was emblematic of the time, according to Domanick.
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The foundation of her appeal to some soldiers remains the contrast between her foreign-policy experience and hard-nosed pragmatism, and Trump's freewheeling bluster.
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It's 1979, four years since hard-nosed Beverly Tapinski became friends with Raymie and Louisiana and rescued a dog, Buddy, who became her own.
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But apparently the hard-nosed journalists over at the times turned a skeptical eye towards Andrew's trucker friendship claims and did what journalists do.
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Clinton might want to watch the film to look for some inspiration about how hard-nosed political pragmatism has been essential to progressive breakthroughs.
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Romar built his team around a core of hard-nosed, unheralded local players who would come to define the following decade of Seattle basketball.
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Yet, even as the Republicans demonstrated a hard-nosed reticence to dispense with the old, they showed, perhaps unintentionally, a flash of the new.
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The investor lesson here is also clear: Don't let enthusiasm for a purportedly innovative business model replace hard-nosed analysis of a company's operations.
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Ortega became the first man to stop the legendarily hard-nosed Edgar, courtesy of a booming uppercut that began somewhere by the Earth's core.
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The Panthers front seven has a well-earned reputation for hard-nosed football, and they're even better against the run this year than last.
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They also need to appease the hard-nosed policy experts or party officials those candidates rely on to get elected — and, eventually, to govern.
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If nobody can see a clear road to profitability, then this hard-nosed approach to valuation will lead to stocks tanking after an IPO.
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Racism was very much alive, so a hard-nosed realism about how to exist within the confines of white America was still a priority.
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Drape: This title game delivered what it promised: two hard-nosed teams from the best conference in college football, the S.E.C. Every series matters.
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Suarez got the ball down the side somewhat dangerously, but Ahmed Fathy, part of the hard-nosed Egypt defense, battled him off the ball.
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A hard-nosed national security hand with the military background often valued by Trump, Keane's name has been floated frequently as a Mattis replacement.
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After the attempt, Moi's rule became more hard-nosed -- he dismissed political opponents and reduced the influence of his predecessor's allies in his cabinet.
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But call it what you will, the German police exhibited "some hard-nosed realism," Bershidsky wrote, screening and detaining hundreds of North African men.
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An overriding lesson of 2016 for liberals is that without hard-nosed realism about the state of the country and Trump's talents, you lose.
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Goodell suggested that the league's hard-nosed approach to player discipline led to a 40 percent decline in the number of players arrested in 2015.
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Apart from the moral obligation the world has to help the brutalised Syrian people, the West—particularly Europe—has hard-nosed reasons to stay engaged.
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Through hard-nosed determination and ruthless drive, Joe Jackson molded, trained and cajoled his brood into one of the greatest show business dynasties in history.
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Red ass A fiery, argumentative, hard-nosed player is said to be a red ass, a term that apparently dates to at least the 1920s.
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Its newish chief executive, John Cryan, wins plaudits for a hard-nosed strategy to cut costs, sell assets and overhaul dusty IT systems (see article).
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And the government would have to acknowledge the growing benefits of renewable energy and make hard-nosed comparisons about cost, implementation, environmental benefits and safety.
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His successor, George H.W. Bush, was even more skeptical of neoconservative ideas, adhering rather to the hard-nosed realism that had long dominated the party.
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And there they function to make some kinds of ideas seem self-evidently "realist," hard-nosed and rational, and others patently inadmissible, self-evidently inappropriate.
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The realist or pragmatist or hard-nosed faction might allow that these upgrades are "nice" to have but not until the trains run on time.
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The animated reel is the hard-nosed results of one hundred days of hand-drawn animation, inspired by Elle Luna's "100 Days" goal-setting project.
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The hard-nosed competition surfaced over the weekend at an Asian economic forum that pitted Vice President Mike Pence against President Xi Jinping of China.
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This has led even hard-nosed investors, such as Blackrock's Larry Fink, to express concern that companies are not investing enough for the long term.
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It doesn't even take a hard-nosed venture capitalist to whip a startup into such a state, because pressure is built into the system itself.
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He is a "hard-nosed" leader who does not warm to dissent but who can inspire, said an executive who worked for him at Nielsen.
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Extra credit: Fortune took a look at Elliott and some of the tactics it uses in its activism, from private investigators to hard-nosed negotiating.
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And the entry of hard-nosed financial giants sends an important message about impact investing: that they see it as profitable for themselves and their clients.
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Mr Kobach, the outgoing secretary of state, is a hard-nosed, far-right ally of Mr Trump who scaremongered over immigration and (non-existent) voter fraud.
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Another Republican close to the White House said Trump's tape comments appeared similar to the hard-nosed tactics he took when his company was facing litigation.
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The Warriors would not label the play as dirty after the game, instead calling it the type of hard-nosed postseason basketball they are used to.
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The confidence is rooted only partly in hard-nosed data, like the rapid pace of growth expected for the second quarter and record low jobless rates.
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That would resolve the age-old contradiction between hard-nosed profit-seeking and high-minded world-changing — and its IPO prospectus aims to prove it right.
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Human rights groups decried Athens' hard-nosed action on the border and its decision to suspend accepting asylum claims, but the EU expressed solidarity with Greece.
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The Austin band Spoon — which plays pithy, hard-nosed, perpetually inventive rock — played what was billed as SXSW's first residency with three nights of headlining sets.
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But McConnell is still a hard-nosed partisan, scheming throughout the year to steamroll Senate Democrats whom he believes are hellbent on slowing down judicial confirmations.
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Nadler's subpoena threat could be a hard-nosed negotiating tactic, in hopes of getting Barr to make more concessions toward Democrats' demands than he's currently offering.
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China, for its part, appears to be in no rush to reach a deal: Zhong Shan, the hard-nosed commerce minister, recently joined the Chinese negotiating team.
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This is what my memory returns to in that visit, Civera's ability to infuse her forms with a mystery that is both hard-nosed and dream-like.
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Now as the star of ABC's Ten Days in the Valley, Akinnuoye-Agbaje feels fortunate to be playing the drama's complex, hard-nosed cop opposite Kyra Sedgwick.
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Mr. O'Leary has been true to his word: Ryanair's hard-nosed culture has produced an airline with few frills but market-leading profitability and a superior valuation.
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It is replete with fake villages, "opposing forces" that use the tactics of the Taliban and ISIS, and even actors playing local civilians and hard-nosed journalists.
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But just who is Theresa May – and is she likely to be as hard-nosed and cozy with the U.S. as Britain's first female PM, Margaret Thatcher?
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Loud, brash and at times outrageous, the hard-nosed Pound ran WADA like a tough-talking, no-nonsense sheriff out to rid the town of drug cheats.
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Even as he made the remarks, Trump sought to bolster his image as a hard-nosed negotiator, announcing $250 billion in agreements between US companies and China.
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Why does a man who calls himself a "hard-nosed capitalist" rail against "globalists" of "the party of Davos" and attack the Republican establishment with special glee?
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The Boston Celtics have been preaching a return to the hard-nosed defensive approach that allowed them to climb the ladder in the Eastern Conference last season.
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The initiative would have been unimaginable at the start of Mr. Blankfein's reign in 2006, when Goldman prided itself on being a hard-nosed Wall Street aggressor.
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In fact, their limitations reflect a hard-nosed assessment of the risk of the alternatives, the broader geostrategic interests in play and the constraints on America's leverage.
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Among the managers who have left are Eric Alexander, the former president of business in Asia, and Emil Michael, Mr. Kalanick's longtime (and famously hard-nosed) lieutenant.
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We want to end with a great mark running the football, which is our identity, playing tough, hard-nosed Seahawks football, and that's exactly what we did.
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The only way out of this crisis is through diplomacy -- clear-eyed, hard-nosed diplomacy grounded in strategy, that's not about one-off decisions or one-upmanship.
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These rules are no less important for being obvious, and Portman obeyed them, with a campaign that relied not on sweeping romance but on hard-nosed calculation.
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The ninth seat on the court has remained empty for almost a year, and Democrats have vowed to embrace the same hard-nosed tactics against Mr. Trump.
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Hard-nosed investment manager Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates and a non-political guy, expects the Trump years to be as transformational as the Reagan-Thatcher years.
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The former real estate tycoon takes a more transactional view of such bodies, making hard-nosed calculations about the material return on US investment -- in strictly financial terms.
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Ultimately, both Cameron and, increasingly, Trump, are hard-nosed politicians, and it isn't in either of their interests to rewrite economic and foreign policy around a personal grudge.
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Against a hard-nosed Jazz team on Saturday night, Gasol, Conley and Courtney Lee missed multiple opportunities down the stretch, and Memphis lost a winnable game in overtime.
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Truculent unions—which cheered the failed sale—mean even the most hard-nosed buyer would have a hard time carrying out the restructuring the authorities admit is necessary.
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"One of the reasons I like using the FTC is they're hard-nosed regulators that know what they're doing and have not become a political lightning rod," Sen.
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It's about the struggles of two difficult men—a hard-nosed NA meeting set in a Goodfellas diner—who happened to be all-star baseball players and teammates.
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Take-Two Interactive has been historically hard nosed about shutting down cheats, going so far as to even shutter programs that modify Grand Theft Auto's single player mode.
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In their 30 years of marriage, friends said in interviews, Lonnie was a doting wife but also a hard-nosed M.B.A. who managed Ali's affairs with steely determination.
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We forgo the desire of our historic allies that we use the Security Council as a launching pad for hard nosed, sustained, and direct diplomatic engagement with Iran.
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Many of them hire consultants to advise them on where to send their checks, and they tend to be hard-nosed realists when it comes to backing winners.
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Defence sources say the hard-nosed approach reflects a shift away from cozy relationships when arms firms would freely commit to unrealistic assignments and then strike a compromise.
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Schöffer's cold but flashy work is definitely in the tradition of hard-nosed art-technicians that share in László Moholy-Nagy's (and Oskar Schlemmer's) Gropiusesque Bauhaus machine aesthetic.
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The first popular cultural weekly in an era of dusty quarterlies, it had been founded in 1817 by the most hard-nosed businessman in British publishing, Henry Colburn.
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But if there is ever to be a nuclear deal, it will require not just high-level summitry but also hard-nosed, intensive negotiations at Mr. Biegun's level.
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It would have seemed to be the perfect made-for-local-TV moment: a reporter's hard-nosed questions about potential corruption allegations eliciting an angry rebuke from Gov.
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It was a fully realized dystopian realm of its own, bristling with crosscurrents of rhythm, dissonant loops, staticky noise, warning shouts and bits of hard-nosed, trenchant lyrics.
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And he enjoys a powerful ally in Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and Republican megadonor who favors the kind of hard-nosed posture that Mr. Bolton would bring.
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The President attributed the successful renegotiation, which marked the fulfillment of a key campaign promise, to his hard-nosed negotiating tactics and his willingness to impose new tariffs.
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Traded to Philadelphia last season, Butler played next to two bona fide All-Stars, Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, in a city that especially loves hard-nosed players.
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Those transgressions include a meth habit that pretty much puts Waits in debt to his hard-nosed superior officer, Superintendent Parrs, who holds him on a short leash.
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"He is as hard-nosed and no-nonsense as they come," said Dmitri Trenin, a Russian analyst at the Moscow office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Many people close to the game reacted strongly, with even a hard-nosed competitor like the Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez seemingly accusing Utley of a dirty play.
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A smack-talking competitor who never met an outfield wall he didn't try to run through, Dykstra earned the nickname Nails many times over for his hard-nosed play.
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The documentary film RBG, in theaters May 803, portrays Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a hard-nosed workaholic with more than a few wins for women's rights under her jabot.
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Before her entry into politics a decade ago, Kandori's exploits as a hard-nosed pro wrestler—especially her 1993 match with Akira Hokuto—endeared her to the Japanese citizenry.
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Even really hard-nosed scientists can get very, very moved during totality, and it's not uncommon to see people afterward with tears and hugging and feeling very choked up.
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This is the guy who turned the surging Anthony Pettis into a wrestler in their fight and who laid out the hard-nosed and otherwise unshakable Rafael dos Anjos.
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In front of Oblak are a number of hard-nosed players like Filipe Luís, the Spanish national team starter Juanfran and José María Giménez, a talented young center back.
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Nonetheless, as the accompanying video shows, the pendulum in some jurisdictions is swinging away from hard-nosed book-'em certitudes toward softer let's-try-to-reason-with-'em approaches.
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Brillant put the hosts ahead in the 21st minute with a hard-nosed goal that was his first in a D.C. jersey and only his third in M.L.S. play.
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The split between the hard-nosed Mr. Bannon and the far more reserved and soft-spoken Mr. Kushner reflects much more than a personality clash between two senior aides.
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Historically, conference committees have been hotbeds for deal making and hard-nosed negotiations among lots of members, with each chamber fighting for its priorities as well as its prestige.
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During his decades in government, he made a name for himself as a hard-nosed and skilful operator who often outmaneuvred rivals to the left and right of his party.
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Lincoln felt like the most important thing that he could do to keep these hard-nosed European powers from intervening in the war was to win the war at home.
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The hard-nosed Aussie had hitherto been known for his "dog-whistle" slogans: "How would you feel if a bloke on early release attacked your daughter?" ran one from 16.5.
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This doesn't mean that hard-nosed journalists like me have gone back on our principles; it means that we need to evaluate the Republican presidential nominee on his own terms.
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"With Reggie and Marcus, we are adding two more versatile, hard-nosed and accomplished players to an already improved roster," Knicks general manager Scott Perry said in a press release.
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While President Moon, who has been criticized for being too accommodative to Pyongyang, isn't expected to take a hard-nosed stance towards Kim, he's not likely to be soft either.
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But a confluence of factors worked against him, including the particularly hard-nosed judge who sentenced him and the zero-tolerance ethos of the time against users of crack cocaine.
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Rather, the president must present a vision for and steps to attain U.S. support for global nuclear security through hard-nosed diplomacy and without resort to regime change or war.
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"I think we could buy several countries' GDP with it," said Franke, a gentlemanly but hard-nosed negotiator who is said to have won unusually steep discounts to advertised prices.
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Against the Jets (3-5), the Bills (5-2) will stick to the script of running the ball, passing enough to keep the defense honest and playing hard-nosed defense.
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While soccer is the global game, the CPL is describing their brand as "distinctly Canadian", an attacking hard-nosed style where the feigning of phantom injuries is seen as unmanly.
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As a hard-nosed empiricist who laughed off the sports psychology seminars I was forced to sit through as a college track athlete, the skeptical take is my default position.
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" Peta noted, however: "If hard-nosed trade policy appeared to be pushing the economy in the direction of a recession, it is likely the administration would dial down its aggressiveness.
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The Eagles tied the game at 227 with 214:22 left in the second, completing a 227-play, 221-yard drive with a hard-nosed 22-yard run by Corey Clement.
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We see there is no reciprocity…Of course we need to be more hard-nosed, I do agree on that, but it shouldn't be at the expense of the European customer.
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Dr Cui's stated aim is to turn HAST into a research institution similar to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, which combines scientific curiosity with hard-nosed technological nous.
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By the time she prepared to leave the State Department in early 2013, former officials said, she wrote at least two confidential memos to Obama urging a more hard-nosed approach.
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Dick McAuliffe, the hard-nosed All-Star infielder who played 21957 seasons for the Detroit Tigers and helped take them to the 21960 World Series championship, died on Friday in Connecticut.
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Mr. Berlin told The New York Times last month that he believed he was let go precisely because he was a hard-nosed reformer dealing with a calcified, ethically challenged agency.
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Jeff Grace's wonderfully expressive musical score adds the urgency the plot lacks, and John Travolta, playing a hard-nosed marshal who intuits Paul's traumatic past, has rarely been this enjoyably commanding.
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Clutterbuck's hard-nosed play alongside his linemates, Casey Cizikas and Matt Martin, often proves to be a difference-maker for the Islanders, who will host the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday.
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But he also balanced personal lessons from his father with Mr. Trump's familiar populist rallying cries, declaring that his father's hard-nosed, gritty ambition would put ordinary Americans back in control.
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The suite, finally released as an album Friday, mixes hard-nosed small-group playing, soaring big-band orchestration, spoken readings from figures like Sonia Sanchez and Wendell Pierce, and choral singing.
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There are areas where democracy-promotion efforts touch directly on important American interests so that even the most hard-nosed practitioners of "America First" realpolitik are likely to see an advantage.
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In Veronica Mars, which returned for a fourth season on Hulu 93 years after it was canceled, she's a hard-nosed detective on the outside and a marshmallow on the inside.
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The hard-nosed champion of traditional American foreign policy agreed to join Trump's Cabinet, hitching his wagon to a man whose worldview he readily admits is profoundly at odds with his.
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The officials did not believe the concern was primarily fiscal despite the fact that DeVos's initial defense before Congress emphasized the need to make hard-nosed decisions to rein in spending.
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The younger Mr. Burke did not gravitate toward the glamorous side of the business, instead developing a reputation as a hard-nosed executive who eschewed internal politics and red-carpet premieres.
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Affordability Rank: 9 Millennial Happiness Rank: 1 Economy Health Rank: 16 The thought of Pittsburgh for most people likely conjures the grit of the steel industry and hard-nosed sports franchises.
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MAVIS STAPLES "Little Bit" (Anti-) With concern and righteousness in her husky voice, over wiry blues guitar lines, Mavis Staples confronts gun violence and police shootings, staying hard-nosed and stalwart.
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The two deals "have been hyped as short-term wins for the U.S. resulting from hard-nosed negotiations by the Trump administration," said Eswar Prasad, a trade professor at Cornell University.
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"That's a hard-nosed approach, but sometimes the president has to use that if he wants to get things accomplished," Grassley said on a Monday radio show, according to the Washington Post.
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On the campaign trail and early in his presidency, Trump claimed that he was a hard-nosed realist coldly pursuing American interests without regard for how countries were choosing to govern themselves.
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The upshot is that universal credit is expected to end up being about £2bn ($2.7bn) less generous overall than the previous (already hard-nosed) system, shaving around 3% off the total bill.
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Rather than bringing hard-nosed business sense into the game, it can often both hide and escalate a scheme's true cost: think of the debacle of the upgrades to the London tube.
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But there is still another, more hard-nosed, realist take on the foreign reaction to the Syria strikes: that the UN's rules on when force is permitted don't meaningfully constrain states' behavior.
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And his reputation as a well-respected but hard-nosed maverick might give Democrats some worry about the outcome of the probe, which is nearing its one-year anniversary later this month.
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He credits Rand's brand of antigovernment libertarianism, hard-nosed rationality and unapologetic self-interest with helping him realize his own American dream — an achievement he sells to the students at his schools.
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That could be former Ford Motor boss Alan Mulally, erstwhile Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney or even a hard-nosed finance type like the Goldman Sachs and White House alum Gary Cohn.
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"Debuts are usually albums of firsts, but Victory Lap is full of sequels and standards [...] it is returning to Nipsey's well for hard-nosed bully rap," reads a positive review from Pitchfork.
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In the title role, Allan Clayton uses a bright, resilient voice to parry at the slings and arrows of fortune, while Nicole Chevalier's hard-nosed Cundegonde harbors few of her lover's illusions.
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In 2013, Origo was Hungary's most-read news website, renowned for its hard-nosed investigations into the likes of Lajos Simicska, a friend of Mr. Orban who had long financed his party.
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"He was a very hard-nosed truth seeker and would go the extra mile to nail down the evidence," said Willet Weeks, a senior adviser on eastern Congo to the State Department.
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Today, Mr. Sanders is being cast as the idealist in the Democratic primary, and it's unclear how much importance will be — or should be — attached to his record as a hard-nosed mayor.
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While there were presidents who voters have liked very much, for example Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, we have also become more hard-nosed and cynical in our expectations of what to expect.
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What sets Dr Keith's latest paper apart from his earlier publications—and, indeed, those of other putative carbon-hoovers—is that it offers a hard-nosed estimate of the system's cost and scalability.
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Trump and his team of hard-nosed realists, who are coming from business and the military, would follow the Realpolitik credo and abandon nation building, regime change, and democracy building in hostile climes.
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It is easy to be hard-nosed and ridicule such people as overly idealistic, but there is a long-standing tradition of people entering medical professions because they feel a need to help.
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ABOUT VIRGINIA TECH (234-37, 224-2): The Hokies' resurgence has been built on a hard-nosed defense, much like the Virginia Tech teams that enjoyed success under long-time coach Frank Beamer.
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Even the ever-struggling lodge, under the leadership of the hard-nosed Scott (Eric Allan Kramer), is under so much financial pressure that every Lynx member has to finally pay their bar tab.
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In New York City, in the nineteen-seventies, when I was a kid, recreational ice hockey was a curiosity, an obscure pastime of hard-nosed Long Islanders, Massholes, preppies, and Hell's Kitchen roughnecks.
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Trump claimed in October that he was able to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico thanks to his hard-nosed tactics, including a willingness to impose new tariffs.
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I think there is something fearless about the different ways Greenwold looks at the failing body with such hard-nosed clarity, and, sensing signs of chaos beginning to bloom, does not turn away.
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Despite the nationalistic rhetoric that the countries' leaders sometimes adopt with their respective domestic constituencies, ties between Japan and South Korea are fundamentally driven by pragmatic and hard-nosed considerations, especially about security.
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Olyphant's hair is grayer and his impressive whiskers are thicker than before, but he's every bit the hard-nosed town sheriff he was destined to become when he first arrived in the camp.
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Then he transferred to Liverpool, where over the course of the season he scored 44 goals and became not just beloved by the team's hard-nosed fans but recognized as a global superstar.
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In addition to eschewing hard-nosed medical analysis, the film treads a line between acknowledging both its subjects' very real symptoms and the frustration of friends and family who see them retreat into isolation.
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Just two years into her Senate term, Harris, 54, rapidly made a name for herself on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where her sharp questioning of Trump administration officials evokes a hard-nosed, prosecutorial style.
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Baker's father was her hard-nosed coach, a Black man who likely knew before she did that there were rooms she might never be allowed into, echelons she would never be permitted to reach.
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From emotive balladry to skyscraping synthwork befitting of big tent EDM stages to hard-nosed rap beats, she's basically shown she can bring her vibrant signature to any style or form she so chooses.
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The hard-nosed cop on the case, played by Ben Mendelsohn, is mourning his own child's recent death, and his confidence that he understands the world is further shaken as the strange events unfurl.
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Around the rise of the tea party in 2009 and 2010, attendees shouted down members of Congress or even hanged lawmakers in effigy, and a leaked memo outlined hard-nosed tactics for "rattling" representatives.
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A widely respected, hard-nosed diplomat who had already been approved by South Korea in a process called agrément, Cha was reportedly dropped after disagreeing with Trump administration officials over the "bloody nose" strategy.
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Johnson was as hard-nosed and devious as they come, yet until 1966 he was able to use those attributes to vastly expand the social safety net in ways that continue to shape American society.
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But their trump card may be an 11 percent drop in the value of sterling against the dollar since the 2016 Brexit vote, which has added a hard-nosed dimension to Britain's global sales drive.
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The aggressor in this battle is Audrey (Victoria Hamilton), a hard-nosed home-counties entrepreneur who runs a company flogging homeware to the middle classes (everything in her shops, apparently, is white—including the customers).
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Voters have yet to forget the disastrous consequences of the Iraq invasion and are hungry for alternatives to war – alternatives like the brand of hard-nosed diplomacy that produced the recent nuclear agreement with Iran.
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Prodigy, the hard-nosed Queens rapper who kiln-fired New York hip-hop into a thing of unhurried attitude and stoic elegance as half of the duo Mobb Deep, died on Tuesday in Las Vegas.
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The best course of action is to go get the Bannon whiteboard, recruit a band of hard-nosed outsiders committed to that agenda, and prioritize it over the impulses to do things the Washington way.
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Pachulia has been a key factor in their success, providing a hard-nosed toughness inside and plenty of energy while focusing on rebounding, defending the paint and setting screens for his higher-profile team mates.
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Indeed, he was a hard-nosed, intensely competitive catcher who was quick as a cat behind the plate and was in charge of steering a pitching staff that was the strongest part of the team.
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Its music shows both songwriters' clear fingerprints: the pithy, hard-nosed clarity of Mr. Pop's lyrics and the unflinching tone of his voice; and the crispness, angularity and deft convolutions of Mr. Homme's chords and melodies.
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But those initiatives and in particular the removal of sales targets as part of this people-first culture meant HSBC lacked hard-nosed focus on profitability just as the geopolitical environment for banks worsened, one said.
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They say we must move from hard-nosed science of intelligence and genetics all the way — only if that's the direction data and logical, unbiased interpretation lead, naturally — to genetically based differences in behavior among races.
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The hard-nosed center fielder gritted, crashed, and slugged his way to a World Series trophy with the New York Mets in 1986, and onto three All-Star teams with the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1990s.
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Secretary of Defense James Mattis and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster know Iran's challenge well, and could be key drivers of the hard-nosed implementation necessary for building on Obama's security engagement with the GCC states.
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Grand welcome A year after gaining entry into the exclusive club of world leaders, Trump is reaping the benefits on the global stage, all with an eye toward keeping up appearances as a hard-nosed negotiator.
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The search, an unusually hard-nosed tactic in a probe that centers on possible tax and financial crimes, began before dawn as Manafort and his wife lay in bed, according to sources briefed on the matter.
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He won't thank anyone for pointing it out, but his brand of hard-nosed nationalist populism smacks of President Trump, notwithstanding the fact that Khan's been at politics way longer, a couple of decades at least.
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Mr. Peters ultimately quieted those critics with a series of hard-nosed reports, such as the exposure of failings at the housing authority and a recent report highly critical of the Police Department's sex crimes unit.
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Mr. Vance publicly denounced the move as "unwarranted intrusion," but within a month, he had removed Maxine Rosenthal, a hard-nosed sex crimes prosecutor who had been criticized for moving too slowly and offending alleged victims.
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"We see the Pound falling to parity with the euro on the combination of a hard-nosed Brexit negotiation by the U.K. government without an underlying economic plan," Alberto Gallo, head of macro strategies at Algebris Investments.
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Founded in 2500, African Parks established a hard-nosed reputation by going into seriously degraded places armed with the right to hire and fire from governments, which retained broad authority but respected a clear separation of roles.
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And the 1978 Superman film drew inspiration from the adult humor of 1930s fast-talking screwball comedies, with Clark Kent / Superman (Christopher Reeve) and hard-nosed reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) exchanging witty quips between super-flights.
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"Now people get to see that this guy they thought was this hard-nosed athlete is, like, a goofy dad who loves his kids and celebrates his girlfriend," she said of their romance, which they've documented online.
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They are employing hard-nosed tactics, warning delegates that attempting to undermine Donald J. Trump's claim to the nomination violates party rules, and threatening to deny speaking slots to Republicans they deem disloyal for not backing him.
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Instead, Lynch has seemed rejuvenated by the year off, and has paid immediate dividends for the Raiders, adding a hard-nosed edge to the offense that is not only showing up in attitude, but also in production.
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Bergé, of course, was one of them: Saint Laurent's longtime business manager, hard-nosed where Saint Laurent was dreamy, is a central figure in "Celebration," which chronicles the creation of what would be Saint Laurent's final collection.
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Ratcliffe, who was briefly Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence before his nomination unraveled, has emerged as a hard-nosed questioner who can drive home a sharp counterpoint during his five-minutes of questioning. Rep.
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Outside of the public spotlight, though, Germany's approach is one of hard-nosed economic pragmatism, distinguished by innovative social policy and the bending of rules to fast-track refugees into schools and vocational training and, eventually, jobs.
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Here's an exchange between two hard-nosed hunters after they get a hot tip about Matt and Christina from their Facebook profile pictures: "If you see a 6'8" person standing around you'd say, 'Hey, look at that guy.
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As head of the State Department, Clinton oversaw "hard-nosed negotiations" with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles and destroy Syrian chemical weapons, while still going "toe-to-toe" with Putin to protect America and NATO allies, Kaine said.
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Whether it's professional wrestling, comic book writing or making the transition from performing in the squared circle to competing in the Octagon—CM Punk has a dogged, hard-nosed approach to tackling any of his passions in life.
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In the past couple of years, I've heard high-speed drum samples used as the slippery underpinning for weepy ambient songs, as Proustian madeleines for jungle nostalgists, and even as the brutal backbone for hard-nosed EDM drops.
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But Christie and Kushner have been hanging out and, as speculation mounts that the Trump administration needs a hard-nosed person who can hold his own while delivering bad news to the president, Christie may get another shot.
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Donald J. Trump, who has made reversing America's trade imbalance a pillar of his campaign, often portrays himself as uniquely capable of wringing concessions out of China through hard-nosed business tactics he has honed over the years.
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Bingham also tells me this little-known fact about Ellison: Despite his industrywide reputation for being hard-nosed, he never loses his cool, never yells — even during sensitive conversations like executive compensation — and is always calm and respectful.
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Carroll might just as well have called his position "romantic reductionism" or "fragrant physicalism," since what he's trying to convey is a stance that is hard-nosed yet soft to the touch — a kinder, gentler, more capacious science.
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We – including usually hard-nosed scientists – want so badly for there to be LGM, we've been grossly overestimating the values of Drake's factors, resulting in a flagrant overestimation of the number of civilizations that should exist out there.
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While the stereotypical multimillionaire and business mogul is a hard-nosed, pragmatic and endlessly cynical figure, there is a streak of idealism to Fernandes which makes him considerably more personable than the standard archetype of the mega rich.
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After Michael's playing career ended, in 1976, Steinbrenner, whose syndicate had taken over ownership from CBS three years earlier, earmarked him for a future in the Yankee organization, having viewed him as a smart and hard-nosed player.
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But it's his role as a hard-nosed litigator representing corporations and executives that has earned him lavish payouts but created potential ethical issues — so much so, it has forced his firm to step away from several cases.
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Sheindlin sends the hard-nosed but reassuring message that — even in a world her viewers suspect is wobbling off its axis — certain things remain unshakeable: the law, common sense, and the bright moral line between right and wrong.
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In overtime, Stafford hit Eric Ebron for 17 yards on third-and-3, Marvin Jones drew a pass-interference call on Rhodes, and Tate polished off the stunner with a hard-nosed catch-and-run down the sideline.
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The invitation by Mr. Macron, at 39, France's youngest president in modern times, to Mr. Trump, 71, the oldest person ever elected to the White House, is consistent with Mr. Macron's developing hard-nosed pragmatism in global affairs.
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Life as a contractor on endless shifts soon takes its toll, however, including financially as every delay is logged onto a central electronic system - one which determines "who lives and who dies", according the delivery firm's hard-nosed manager.
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WASHINGTON – After a week of hard-nosed negotiation, diplomatic gamesmanship and no shortage of theatrics, President Donald Trump announced Friday that the historic nuclear-weapons summit he had canceled with North Korea&aposs Kim Jong Un is back on.
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WASHINGTON – After a week of hard-nosed negotiation, diplomatic gamesmanship and no shortage of theatrics, President Donald Trump has announced that the historic nuclear-weapons summit he had canceled with North Korea&aposs Kim Jong Un is back on.
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But if we hold belief in suspension for a moment, whom better to crack through his abrasive bluster than the woman his mother loved, a woman who has had the measure of his hard-nosed type many times before?
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In the place of the traditional hard-nosed male detective is Simone, who is desperate to track down her father Frederik (Lars Simonsen), a scientist who works for Apollon, the shadowy mystery corporation at the center of the outbreak.
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After pitching himself to voters as a hard-nosed negotiator who could easily wring out of the political system accomplishments that had eluded all past presidents, Donald Trump turns out to be uniquely bad at quarterbacking legislation through Congress.
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He delved widely across idioms, writing not just three-chord folk and pop but tunes that hinted at rock, blues, country, klezmer, Viennese waltzes and Greek rebetika — even disco on the hard-nosed, trenchant "I'm Your Man" in 1988.
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The friendship they developed was often fraught, and even codependent, with the former B-movie heartthrob Wayne suffering from chronic feelings of inadequacy and the hard-nosed, occasionally abusive A-list director Ford unafraid of doling out tough love.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump asserted Thursday that his decision to abandon the Iran nuclear deal had already curbed Iran's aggressive behavior, and he predicted that his hard-nosed tactics would also result in a successful nuclear negotiation with North Korea.
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The new leader of the opposition Democratic Party, Seiji Maehara, is a hawk, and under his leadership the party, traditionally an advocate of pacifism, is likely to support, if perhaps reluctantly, the Abe administration's hard-nosed approach to security.
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Mr. Neal, who prides himself more on his bipartisan policymaking skills than hard-nosed partisan oversight, is reluctant to move too quickly and risk making a mistake that could be exploited in court, people familiar with his thinking said.
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"Like President Trump, Director Pompeo is clear-eyed and hard-nosed about the threats we face, and he speaks in the direct, blunt manner of a man who has no time to waste when confronting those threats," said Sen.
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While the "hard Brexit" - quitting the EU on the U.K.'s terms - rhetoric might have pleased the party's hardliners, markets didn't like the look of the potential hard-nosed approach and sterling fell to a 31-year-low against the dollar.
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Also featuring a hard-nosed verse from up-and-comer Lil Yachty—who recently appeared in Kanye West's Yeezy Season 3 show at New York's Madison Square Garden, the track's watery synths provide the perfect backdrop for Pollàri's woozy croons.
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So it has lined up serious establishment types—from businessmen and former generals to theatre directors and educationalists—to make hard-nosed arguments about jobs, investment and security: a virtuous cup of green tea to the Eurosceptics' more stimulating brew.
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The blunt remarks and denials of the former FBI director's allegations are in keeping with Trump's reputation for counter-punching, and indicates the legal team led by Kasowitz intends to take a hard-nosed approach in pushing back against Comey.
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She has already begun an attempt to do so: Clinton and allied groups have so far spent $7103 million on television ads, many of them featuring hard-nosed anti-Trump attacks, while Trump has aired no ads over the past month.
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In this escalating crisis, both Pyongyang and Washington have pursued the standard hard-nosed international relations logic that each North Korea test and sanctions violation be met with more U.S. threats, shows of military force and additional sanctions in response.
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The banner stayed on for a while even after his controversial firing as the team's coach two years ago, a testament to the connection that Petke, a hard-nosed defender and then a fiery coach, retained with the Red Bulls faithful.
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To threaten arming Ukraine would make sense as part of a hard-nosed negotiation with Moscow, or as a way to deter Russia from arming insurgent groups in other conflict zones where the United States is involved militarily, like Afghanistan.
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Echoing Stevens about Ainge, and unwittingly indicting Jackson, Hornacek said, "Danny's put together a bunch of guys that are hard-nosed," naming Marcus Smart, Jae Crowder and Al Horford, players Ainge has drafted, traded for or signed as free agents.
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Raffel quickly became known both inside and outside the White House for his hard-nosed style, taking a combative stance in defending Kushner and Ivanka Trump from the scrutiny and controversy they have courted in their time at the White House.
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A mid-2000s accounting scandal and a reputation for hard-nosed lobbying tactics made the mortgage financiers lots of enemies in Washington by the time they entered government control, and lawmakers have been debating what to do with them ever since.
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Rather than walking into a sweetheart deal with the United States, the United Kingdom is likely to be confronted by a phalanx of hard-nosed American trade officials who will attempt to pry open British markets to more American goods.
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Not only was the Connecticut Compromise defining Senate representation a hard-nosed plan that didn't reflect any clear larger principle, the boundaries of the states themselves were not drawn the way they are today for any particularly far-sighted reason.
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"The FTC is liked for this job, he said, because he admires the agency's functionality and its ability to remain nonpartisan; that and because it's run by "hard-nosed regulators who know what they're doing and have not become a political lightning rod.
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Chastened general manager Ryan Grigson spent a first-round pick on hard-nosed center prospect Ryan Kelly; whether Kelly and budding third-year guard Jack Mewhort can keep Luck clean early and often will be critical for the Colts' chances this year.
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Presented by European officials as a hard-nosed piece of statecraft, the "action plan" offers Turkey money, the prospect of visa-free travel inside the EU and an acceleration of its membership bid so long as the Turks keep the migrants away.
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Clinton has vacillated between two tacks in recent weeks: The hard-nosed campaign puncher, taking direct aim at Sanders, and the pragmatic defender of Democratic values, focused on her own record and her ability to keep Republicans from unraveling President Barack Obama's work.
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The two competing ways of valuing a pension fund are often called the actuarial approach (which is geared toward helping employers plan stable annual budgets, as opposed to measuring assets and liabilities), and the market approach, which reflects more hard-nosed math.
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Critics praised his ruthlessly funny Boogie Nights performance as porn director Jack Horner, a tough and hard-nosed father figure in a film that's as much a poignant story about family as it is a raucous look at the adult entertainment industry.
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The guidelines seem designed to protect a player like Gardner, who has forged an 11-year career as a hard-nosed outfielder with few qualms about throwing his body around and is prideful enough to try to insist on playing through injuries.
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To go with the team's core of young players — Russell, Dinwiddie, Jarrett Allen, Caris LeVert, Joe Harris and the lone holdout from before Marks arrived, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson — they added a trio of hard-nosed veterans in Ed Davis, Jared Dudley and Faried.
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The president's preferred image of himself as a shrewd, hard-nosed negotiator took a hit last week when The Washington Post published transcripts of his phone conversations in January with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia.
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We still don't know the full details of Mr. Trump's approach to the Middle East, but his hard-nosed ethos and willingness to question foreign policy dogmas offer an opportunity, in principle, to dispel several fallacies that led to these strategic blunders.
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Perimeter shots did not fall, and Cronin called for his go-to remedy — physical defense and hard-nosed rebounding — to spark a 13-4 run that propelled Cincinnati ahead to stay and toward the Mohegan Sun Casino date with sharp-shooting Rhode Island.
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The conversation among urban liberals has turned to avoiding wrongful convictions and ending hard-nosed policies — like targeting minor offenses as a means to reducing major crimes — that critics have argued led to the incarceration of too many black and Hispanic men.
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There were two opening acts: the British singer Emeli Sandé, belting R&B hymns of devotion and righteousness, and the New York City rapper Nas, backed by a live band and shouting his hard-nosed tales of street life, survival and grown-up advice.
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James Franco plays the part of twin brothers, Frankie and Vincent, whose fates are eternally intertwined; there's also Gbenga Akinnagbe's slick-tongued Larry Brown, a hard-nosed pimp with a heart, and Maggie Gyllenhaal's Candy, a sex worker and single mother with big dreams.
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It reminds me of the first line of "Circe's Power" by poet Louise Gluck, one that always stuck with me and which I have always used to say that it's okay to be hard-nosed in writing as long as you are accurate and fair.
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The hard-nosed, conflict-prone political operative, who was unceremoniously fired by Trump's adult children months before the 2016 election and then isolated from the president — at least through official channels — is trying to show he can be a useful, well-behaved team player.
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To tie all this up, my view of this is that we should continue to offer sympathetic but hard-nosed looks at the white working-class community, and we should maybe pair that with more sympathetic views of what's going on in the black community.
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Let's hope we elected the right candidate, because we believed that this hard-nosed, no-nonsense "businessman" could get the job done, unlike the other candidate who represented the classic political insider who made a career and living off of talking about the issues.
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Her deal with Turkey, to take back certain refugees, was just the right dose of hard-nosed politics that people needed to see — as was her public refusal to show sympathy for the thousands of refugees still stranded in Greece, sleeping in the mud.
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He appears to have plenty of free time, as a retired assassin and empty nester — Paige is in college nearby and Henry is at the private school in New Hampshire, where he's a hard-nosed hockey player with a gaggle of screaming female fans.
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He favored visual arts and acting in school and adopted the name Franklin to hide his stage roles from his father, a hard-nosed man who in the late 1800s became one of the first Jewish police officers in New York City, Ms. Markowitz said.
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The 230-track effort features both young and veteran rappers from the city's Cleveland Avenue—best known as the neighborhood where Young Thug started his career—and hard-nosed production courtesy of Bromance affiliates including Ryan Hemsworth, Myth Syzer, Ikaz Boi, Myd, and others.
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In both, his strategy has been hard-nosed brinkmanship, trying to cow businessmen and world leaders like Kim Jong-un of North Korea with his refusal to compromise, even if getting his way risks significant damage to his interests and those of his friends.
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News Analysis The huge, headline-grabbing news out of Uber this week was the resignation of its chief executive, Travis Kalanick, under pressure from the company's board, a stunning move that capped a monthslong crisis involving sexual harassment, executive misbehavior and Uber's hard-nosed culture.
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WASHINGTON — More than any administration in recent history, the Obama White House has focused on a law enforcement mission that might seem antithetical to hard-nosed prosecutors: getting criminal offenders out of jail early and trying to give them the skills to stay out.
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Butler loves Kyrie Irving's game and would mesh nicely inside Boston's hard-nosed, nothing-is-given environment, but needing to pay Butler, Irving, and Al Horford in the same summer would be pretty damn tricky, even if it'd all but guarantee a spot in the 2019 Finals.
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NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A deadly New Jersey Transit train crash this week has renewed questions about Republican Governor Chris Christie's hard-nosed approach to a public transit funding crisis, even as he announced a compromise on Friday to pay for long-delayed construction projects.
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" Be smart ... One of the president's most loyal D.C. supporters texted me about the presidents effort to cloak hard-nosed policies in softer rhetoric: "[T]he Trump we saw tonight ain't the real Trump — and he's not capable of pretending to be someone else for 2 years.
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" Be smart: One of Trump's most loyal D.C. supporters texted me about the president's effort to cloak hard-nosed policies in softer rhetoric: "[T]he Trump we saw tonight ain't the real Trump — and he's not capable of pretending to be someone else for 2 years.
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Dominique Heaggan, 24, identified by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as the officer behind the fatal shooting that sparked two nights of violent protests, climbed from a police apprenticeship program to became a hard-nosed cop on the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's northwest side.
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But in the end, Mr. Balderson squeaked to victory thanks to a hard-nosed Republican playbook that relied on divisive social issues like immigration and gun rights — especially resonant in rural and exurban areas — to mobilize just enough voters to get their candidate over the finish line.
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Stocky, barrel-chested and blunt — "I guess you could call me fun-loving but hard-nosed," he once told an in-house newsletter — Mr. Reichardt was not well known in the banking community when he was named president of the San Francisco-based Wells Fargo in 1978.
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One would think a hard-nosed executive like Mr. Trump, who won the White House in part because of his assurances that he would run government more like a business, would be loath to reward a contractor that does a bad job while saving no money.
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"If any European leader can be assumed to have profound insights into (Putin's) thinking and psychology, but at the same time have a very hard-nosed attitude toward a strategic goal, then it would be Merkel," Constanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told NBC News.
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The new pact with Mexico and Canada to some extent validates Trump's hard-nosed negotiating style on trade, in which he has used tariffs — or the threat of them — to pressure trading partners to the negotiating table to re-work deals he has long condemned as bad for America.
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Best Verse: n/aOverall Grade: D "Wat U Mean" always sounded to me like the kind of hard-nosed anthem that Atlanta rappers have done for years, so it surprised me a little that Dae Dae invited the whimsical new face of ATL, Lil Yachty, to be the remix's sole guest.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Among the millions of rural Americans who voted for incoming president Donald Trump, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's legacy of hard-nosed regulation earned it a reputation as a jobs killer - a fact that outgoing EPA Director Gina McCarthy says could prove to be one of her biggest regrets.
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National politicians habitually ignore the state and are seen as being out of touch—a relatively unknown protest candidate took 9 percent of the Democratic primary vote—so it's unsurprising that Justice's campaign has been less about specific policies and more about restoring West Virginia's damaged sense of hard-nosed pride.
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Furthermore, a scrap between Barboza, arguably the best striker at lightweight, and Nurmagomedov, arguably the division's best grappler, would represent an incredible style clash that harks back to the halcyon days of MMA, when pure strikers duked it out with hard-nosed grapplers under the fluorescent lights of rec center basements.
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WeWork has opened almost as many new locations in the last 294-210/22.5 months as it did in the whole first half of this year, likely accelerating the speed with which the office-sharing company is burning through cash as increasingly hard-nosed investors scrutinize its prospects for going public.
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So far, in addition to the Saviors and Alexandria, we've met the weak but industrious Hilltop, led by the sniveling Gregory; the Kingdom, led by the Ren-Faire poser King Ezekiel; and Oceanside, an all-female group, led by the hard-nosed Natania, who hates outsiders but has lots of guns.
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Mr. Robot and its creator Sam Esmail are probably a little too mushy and sentimental to create the kind of hard-nosed Marxist tale that leftier TV fans might like, but this final season is about as close as American television has gotten to forthrightly advocating for the end of capitalism.
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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who knew her for many years, said in a phone interview that though Ms. Nolan had been "hard-nosed about the international system," she had also believed that decisions based purely on realpolitik, without regard for morality and ethics, were likely to be disastrous.
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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who knew her for many years, said in a phone interview that though Ms. Nolan had been "hard-nosed about the international system," she had also believed that decisions based purely on realpolitik, without regard for morality and ethics, were likely to be disastrous.
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Named for the hard-nosed and frequently blitzing safety Doug Plank, who wore No. 173 playing for the Bears in Ryan's first few seasons as defensive coordinator, the plan put as many as eight men on the defensive line to foil the opponents' blocking plays, and it sprang blitzes by just about anyone.
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" In these pages, Mr. Tye conscientiously strips away the accretions of myth that have come to surround Robert F. Kennedy, while at the same time creating a sympathetic portrait of this complex, searching man — a genuine pilgrim and a hard-nosed politician, a fierce romantic dedicated to "the art of the possible.
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Alderman Roderick Sawyer, who leads the Council's Black Caucus and said he knew Mr. Johnson from his time as a high-ranking officer in his ward, said that he considered Mr. Johnson to be a "gentleman of high integrity" who is a "hard-nosed police officer" with an ability to act independently.
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As likely to dig up old porn soundtracks as she is to play hard-nosed techno and chintzy mood music—she's at her best when she pulls from all three, and more, in the same set—she's developed a reputation for eclecticism that basically allows her lead her dancefloors basically wherever she wants.
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When the Utes, who finished 218-270 and second in the nation in 231, moved to the Pac-12 three years later, Whittingham did not waver from his belief that hard-nosed football was a winning formula — even in a conference that has been known for developing N.F.L. quarterbacks and wide-open offenses.
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Fans of the television series Better Call Saul experienced the strange and exasperating malady through the unraveling of Michael McKean's Chuck McGill—a hard-nosed lawyer and former bright star of his profession who wrapped himself in space blankets, lit his home with lanterns, and made guests leave their mobile phones in the mailbox outside.
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For someone who campaigned as a anti-politician who would bring a hard-nosed business sense to Washington, Cuba presents Trump with a golden opportunity to place economic pragmatism and the tangible benefits it would bring to citizens of both countries over the out-dated and counterproductive Cold War ideology that undergirds the embargo.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - WeWork has opened almost as many new locations in the last 3-210/22.5 months as it did in the whole first half of this year, likely accelerating the speed with which the office-sharing company is burning through cash as increasingly hard-nosed investors scrutinize its prospects for going public.
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From the opening pitch, Mets fans booed Utley, who broke Ruben Tejada's right leg on a hard slide in last year's National League Championship Series, just as vociferously as they had when they first acquired a distaste for the hard-nosed Utley a decade ago when he was a second baseman with the Philadelphia Phillies.
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It's an interesting question because in being revealed as a tulpa, Diane's character — which seemed very badass and hard-nosed, even when she was breaking down — fits into a larger Lynchian pattern of female characters who are supposed to play a "type," something he brought out probably most brilliantly and coherently in Mulholland Drive.
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Hafkin, seeing how poor the alternatives were (people were accessing databases by sending letters through the mail!), was inspired with her team to take steps to encourage digital uptake—including the creation of dial-up systems to access data and some hard-nosed battles with monopolistic telecom systems that were limiting early internet access.
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Clinton: Trump win would be like Christmas for the Kremlin And he does not seem to be a hard-nosed preacher of realism in statecraft like former secretary of state Henry Kissinger either, and his willingness to countenance the use of force against groups like ISIS appears to rule out the idea that he is a classic isolationist.
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Read the Times obituary: Christopher Wong Won, Rapper and a Founder of 215 Live Crew, Dies at 210 June 25 Prodigy, born Albert Johnson, was a hard-nosed rapper who brought to his lyrics a no-nonsense personality and a vivid eye for detail in sometimes achingly poetic evocations of cruel street life in New York.
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Mr. Broidy said that the operation was motivated by hard-nosed geopolitics: At the beginning of the Trump administration, he had pushed the White House to adopt anti-Qatar policies at the same time his firm was poised to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from the United Arab Emirates, the archrival to Qatar.
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Marie, a veteran of foster homes who maintains forward momentum through the most discouraging events — after being raped, she's shunned for supposedly having lied and slapped with a criminal charge for making a false report — was more fully realized in the original article, though she remains a complex and intriguing character, played with a kind of hard-nosed delicacy by Dever.
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The memo calls for "targeted military strikes" against the Syrian government in light of the near-collapse of the ceasefire brokered earlier this year, as well as "a judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process," according to the New York times, which has seen a draft of the cable.
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What might have been a hard-nosed debate about Britain's future, about the pros and cons of EU membership, has turned into a poisonous row about the merits of what is ultimately Mr Farage's vision of England: a hazy confabulation of content without modernity; of warm beer, bowler hats, faces blackened by coal dust; of bread-and-dripping, fish-and-chips, hope-and-glory.
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Enough people think so that there was even a New York Times documentary about his evolution from hard-nosed NY prosecutor to … private attorney seemingly working for free for longtime friend, and President of the United States, Donald Trump, who appears to be at the center of an attempt to recruit foreign governments to meddle in US elections, and also maybe some campaign finance shenanigans too.
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Brian Kemp, a hard-nosed conservative in his own right, bucked President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2023 MORE this week by appointing Kelly Loeffler, a wealthy finance executive, to fill the seat of retiring Sen.
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But it leaves the question open as to why Donald Trump, business mogul extraordinaire, whose entire campaign is underwritten by the promise that he will bring the same sort of competence, vision, and hard-nosed negotiating brilliance to the White House that he's employed to such great success in the board room for thirty years doesn't want to prove his executive acumen in the simplest, most direct way possible.
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Read more: Ron Rivera agrees to become Redskins' next coach, begins building staff Brewer: Ron Rivera is traditional, hard-nosed and just what the Redskins need After a decade of change everywhere but the top, Redskins finally move on from Bruce Allen From 'winning off the field' to 'damn good' culture: Bruce Allen's Redskins tenure in quotes Svrluga: With Bruce Allen gone, Daniel Snyder has no more excuses
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I had the funniest thing, I sat in on an interview with somebody like you with him and this person who had come in from the outside, a Brit, and so he said, "How do I get ..." You know, he's supposed to be a hard-nosed member of the fourth estate, first thing he does is he asks Hill how he can open up an account at the bank.
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If you were trying to engineer a figure with the right background and life experience, the instinct and inclination to do what prosecutors for Ferguson and Staten Island did not, you would imagine a young black prosecutor, acutely aware of racial injustice and systemic oppression, who had organized herself since childhood to confront bigotry through political action, and yet someone who came from generations of police, who could not be accused of hating cops or coddling criminals, whose commitment to hard-nosed prosecution was inspired by her own formative experience of violent crime.
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