Harwood: You have a reputation for being pretty tough minded.
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To be credible, the tribunal must be independent and tough-minded.
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But it's a little more tough-minded than you might expect.
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He is a tough-minded lover who doesn't recognize the brush-off.
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Or that more Democrats will back a tough-minded approach to Iran's troublemaking?
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The two countries share a "tough-minded" view of the world, he added.
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"These guys are a tough-minded team," Nebraska coach Tim Miles told reporters.
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The situation requires tough-minded policies for balanced economic growth and job creation.
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There is plenty of pugilistic optimism in this "Plot," but it's tough-minded.
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Age did not temper Mr. Bergé's tough-minded assessments of himself and of others.
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" The Buono decision, he added, "was also tough-minded, but it was an error.
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Repeating that success will require well-targeted funding and tough-minded administrative resourcefulness to succeed.
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Fisher said Trump fans are probably "somewhat confident, tough-minded and direct"—just like Trump!
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Ms. Zeisler is an incisive, tough-minded writer, attacking her subjects with a diamond cutter.
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As a manager at Goldman, he was tough-minded and could be critical and impatient.
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Rarely have I read a piece featuring such empathy coupled with such tough-minded analysis.
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Right now some tough-minded performers are saying NO to providing entertainment at Trump's Inauguration.
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They aren't especially original, but they are forceful, tough-minded period pieces, and good to see.
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Trump and his team are tough-minded pragmatists capable of hard-headed diplomacy and decisive action.
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That's why Warrenism's tough-minded agenda for returning control to the democratic citizenry is so important.
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There's an admirably tough-minded, difficult rigor in her work; she makes less use of charm.
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It's a tough-minded statement that, if she read it, must have made Senator Clinton wince.
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Nixon was polished, smothered in makeup and made to deliver tough-minded orations in a soft voice.
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The next day he is tough-minded, demanding closed loop performance from his leaders to improve earnings.
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Clinton staked out familiar ground as a tough-minded stateswoman and a safe hand on national security.
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Use the Committee on Appropriations under Nita Lowey to conduct tough-minded oversight of agencies and programs.
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At the end of each episode, she breaks the fourth wall to deliver a tough-minded moral.
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Matt Zames, the tough-minded chief operating officer of the banking colossus JPMorgan Chase, is unexpectedly resigning.
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Felicity Jones is a fine addition to the "Star Wars" tradition of tough-minded, quick-thinking heroines.
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"But I do think you have to be tough-minded as citizens and grade him," Burns said.
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"But this is kept from seeming sappy by the picture's tough-minded, almost abrasive sense of humor."
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The elements of fairy-tale fantasy scattered across "The Explosion Chronicles" help to sweeten a tough-minded satire.
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Clinton is a pragmatic, tough-minded woman of accomplishment and political conviction with a demonstrated mastery of policy.
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Since taking office in early 2013, she has branded herself a tough-minded leader dedicated to national security.
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An equally tough-minded perspective on immigration is presented in Danielle Arbid's "Parisienne," set in the mid-'90s.
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Clinton gave a tough-minded, realpolitik answer to the question of how to handle a problem like Syria.
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Then, a couple of seasons ago, into my inbox popped an email from a tough-minded fellow critic.
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"We didn't play a truly tough-minded defensive game," said Orlando coach Frank Vogel, whose team shot 43.3 percent.
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"I thought they really fought hard, they were tough-minded," Raptors head coach Nick Nurse said of his team.
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Europeans also want to convince Trump that they are tough-minded allies who will not be deceived by Tehran.
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She was at her strongest, it seemed to me, when she was tough-minded about her characters' tough lives.
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The question is whether she is tough enough and skilful enough to deal with the tough-minded Israelis and Palestinians.
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More such transits are needed — as is overall administration policy as tough-minded about defense as it is about trade.
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Trump privately expressed a wish for tough-minded lawyers who are well aware of his interests, according to the Journal.
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That leaves little ground for friends to offer tough-minded public appraisal without being labeled an enemy of the movement.
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Written by Lupino and Young, "Never Fear" is a tough-minded, modest, yet memorable film about a profound existential struggle.
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He clearly respects tough-minded men who are unafraid of defying Washington in the name of defending America from its enemies.
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But I have a tough group that is getting more tough-minded all the time and I totally believe in them.
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Harvey's fluid line is not something you can be taught, which is why so many tough-minded artists admired her work.
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"She will bring, I think again, a very aggressive, tough-minded approach, very fact-based policy approach to it," Gingrich said.
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Tune in and the first station is airing Pressure, Horace Ové's tough-minded 1976 movie about London youth and racial disillusionment.
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President Trump's budget proposal on Thursday was billed as a tough-minded and necessary corrective to the growth of the government.
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The nuclear deal proved that it is possible to change long-contentious aspects of our relationship with Iran using tough-minded diplomacy.
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"Sometimes being tough-minded is the compassionate approach," Mr. Cotton said, rejecting the less-strident "compassionate conservatism" espoused by George W. Bush.
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Kim Yong-chol to the U.S. was likely designed to signal to any internal skeptics that he's taking a tough-minded approach.
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If he succeeds, it may produce little change from the similarly tough-minded Wolfgang Schäuble, who has been Ms. Merkel's finance minister.
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And in an interview, he indicated that some of President Trump's tough-minded budget cuts might be more bluster than bottom lines.
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And I am not against working more closely with Russia on global issues or getting more tough-minded on trade with China.
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Once again, Pernkun, a tough-minded opponent with a tactical head on his shoulders, boxed clever and won the stormy contest on points.
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It threatens to throw the advantage to his news conference-averse opponent, Hillary Clinton, who should draw plenty more tough-minded coverage herself.
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It would call for a steadfast commitment to liberal ideals and to fearless inquiry, an Americanism as tough-minded as it is openhearted.
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That's the challenge Linwood Barclay throws down in PARTING SHOT (Doubleday Canada, $27), a tough-minded crime novel about the dangers of vigilantism.
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The enforcer of that tough-minded approach has been Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who has acted as Europe's main liaison with Russia.
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"Days of Wine and Roses" is a remarkably tough-minded film for Hollywood in 1962, but that's the director Blake Edwards for you.
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However part of her legacy is now under intense scrutiny as tax-shy multinational companies try to contest her tough-minded tax-rulings.
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But as a very clever and tough-minded negotiator, you know, he will use the tariffs, but he will use the negotiating table.
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The leaders of the current "revolt against the elites" in the West have signalled their tough-minded approach by proclaiming their admiration for him.
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Often, these ultimately home-run companies go through stomach-churning brushes with death that only the heartiest entrepreneurs and tough-minded, dedicated investors survive.
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The speech to the Muslim world -- a tough-minded clarion call to chase the extremists from its midst -- hit some of the right notes.
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Ms. Ayotte glided into office in 2010 as a tough-minded former state attorney general, billed as one of her party's rising Young Turks.
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Ms. Mills has presented herself as a tough-minded corrective to the unpopular outgoing governor, Paul R. LePage, a Republican aligned with Mr. Trump.
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In Mr. Bayona's tough-minded film about grief, the monster's purpose is to shine a light on a child's most real and rational fears.
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Anchors responded by delivering a tough-minded assessment of his nine-minute remarks, reeling off several immediate correctives to some of his misleading claims.
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"Without a tough-minded but fair family-owned newspaper, the forces kind of arrayed against this place, the South Fork, would win," Mr. Rattray said.
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"An independent, tough-minded businessman, he represents our best chance to bring America together again and begin the long national process of healing," she wrote.
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"An independent, tough-minded businessman, he represents our best chance to bring America together again and begin the long national process of healing," Sheindlin wrote.
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The border between the United States and Mexico has long been a place for vital cinema — a site for suspense, melodrama and tough-minded realism.
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"She (Tsai) is going to deal with a very tough-minded leader in Beijing," said Chu Yun-han, a professor at the National Taiwan University.
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Jack Welch was a poster boy for tough-minded leadership at GE; his picture and advice on success adorned the covers of business magazines for years.
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With Persona Bubble, explore your inner character, such as whether you're structured or flexible, sensitive or tough-minded, reactive or stable — or somewhere in the middle!
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The rest was history, as the tough-minded Warriors snatched the wins record and Curry almost assuredly locked up his second consecutive Most Valuable Player Award.
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Shrink government spending by trimming pensions and cutting social programs, the logic runs, and the markets will gain confidence in the tough-minded people in charge.
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We can at least be grateful for one of the authors' liberties: the invention of Emily Penrose, the fair but tough-minded editor of the magazine.
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A perceptive and tough-minded biographer, who has written about other fabled icons of masculinity — Henry Miller, Norman Mailer — Dearborn has now tackled the big one.
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The film-geek fun that Porumboiu so deftly indulges serves as an implicit rebuke to those who reflexively associate Romania with stripped-down, tough-minded realism.
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And Warren made clear in a January op-ed in the Times that she will be expecting the eventual Democratic nominee to promise tough-minded regulators.
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Triggering the sanctions process has long been the desire of tough-minded Germany, which was instrumental in giving Brussels the new powers to crack down on overspenders.
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If Mr. Trump wants to succeed, he needs to defer more to those — from tough-minded advisers, to congressional antagonists, to angry allies — who disagree with him.
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Besides the misallocation of resources, many felt they had turned a candidate known for her tough-minded, blunt-spoken approach to politics into a more conventional politician.
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"We write to ask you to pursue a results-oriented, but tough-minded and principled policy toward the Russian Federation," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Trump.
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Although he used religious language in public and claimed to be a Muslim in his autobiography, he was probably an atheist, or at least a tough-minded agnostic.
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Several people used similar, somewhat surprising, language to describe the tough-minded legal advocate: "a sweet spirit," Frank Keating, the former Oklahoma governor and a Republican, put it.
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In his words, he wanted to provide a way of thinking between the 'tough-minded' scientist and the 'tender-minded' idealist, preserving what is valuable about both sides.
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It would have been nice to see that what might seem like bias was actually just tough-minded reporting and a healthy skepticism of the party in power.
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Maybe he or she has noticed that his or her company has been losing enough subscribers and ad dollars to evoke sympathy from a tough-minded federal judge.
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The sex workers, independent and tough-minded, were already accustomed to thinking of themselves in this way—Pi Noi simply helped them find a language to assert their independence.
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"There is no quota for the number of tough-minded, accomplished people who are qualified to do these jobs," senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said Friday on Fox News.
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On one hand, in the wake of his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear accord, Trump launched a tough-minded campaign of maximum pressure on sanctions that's devastated Iran's economy.
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Reagan's tough-minded approach paid tangible dividends, leading to landmark arms controls agreements, détente, and ultimately the peaceful end of the Cold War (and of the Soviet Union itself).
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Is it unfair to wonder if this tough-minded writer was not also unconsciously demanding of the two University of Melbourne women that they, too, act more like men?
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Ten months into the job, Friel said she had encountered nothing that would fit a story line of a tough-minded woman fighting against an entrenched and wrongheaded male bastion.
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The retrospective, which runs from Friday through June 6, may not be the toughest ticket to attain in New York, but it could be the city's most tough-minded show.
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For those of us who've gravitated more to his prose, which can be savvy and tough-minded, the best news is that he's said to be working on a memoir.
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An Eastern European Jew who, after a lengthy American detour, immigrated to Palestine in 1921, Meir embodied the movement's socialist and egalitarian modesty as well as its tough-minded militarism.
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But the Trump administration announced this week that it was backing away from that tough-minded approach, a move that prompted fierce debate on Tuesday in cities across the country.
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At a high-level, in a nutshell, I've observed that the very best leaders approach their work in a way that is tough-minded on standards and tender-hearted with people.
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So harping on the dangers of automation, while it may sound tough-minded, is in practice a sort of escapist fantasy for centrists who don't want to confront truly hard questions.
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Once again, she's managed to deliver something that feels fresh, even revolutionary: a tough-minded look at the science behind a slice of life where data-driven approaches are sorely lacking.
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On the morning before that "Swan Lake" performance, the second-year boys' class sweated hard for their tough-minded teacher in pursuit of the heroic ease that distinguishes the school's male graduates.
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" In the last of their frequent face-offs that thread through the play, the budding mogul tells his tough-minded acolyte that he would like to buy "a TV network over there.
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As I wrote way back in 2007, proclaiming a Social Security crisis requiring cuts was seen as a "badge of seriousness," a way of showing how statesmanlike and tough-minded you were.
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Dominique Morisseau, who wrote the show's book, is the gifted author of a cycle of smart, tough-minded plays based in her native Detroit, where much of "Ain't Too Proud" is also set.
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This tough-minded approach is not a distraction from America's competition with more serious adversaries like China and Russia, who watch our actions closely in the Gulf for signs of commitment and resolve.
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One can only imagine how Trump would perform in a true crisis situation negotiating with a recalcitrant ally or a tough-minded adversary if he cannot handle pro-forma introductory calls with friendly partners.
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Mr Trump's pitch is straightforward: he is building a government of world-class deal-makers, who will strike bargains and make America a winner again in tough-minded transactions with foreign friends, rivals and foes.
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Hickok was a tough-minded beat reporter with a nose for a story, and Eleanor — a Good Wife who had looked the other way at her husband's infidelities — could have been the scoop of a lifetime.
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Chris Wallace, a tough-minded and ecumenical interviewer, recently grilled Stephen Miller , a senior Trump adviser, on the need for a border wall, given that virtually all drugs seized at the border are discovered at checkpoints.
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Although "The Way Back" takes place in the present, a sense of disordered lives pervades this tough-minded studio film, which has the outward trappings of an inspirational sports drama but is primarily a recovery movie.
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But his views on poverty alleviation were tough-minded and well-known, informed by his childhood in Detroit and his own bootstraps journey from Motor City urban grit to the operating theater of Johns Hopkins University.
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And whether the irascible and tough-minded John Bolton will keep his new seat -- or is a bright, shiny but temporary fix in the mind and mood swings of a mercurial President -- remains to be seen.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's proposal on Thursday for deep cuts to the budgets of a broad part of the federal bureaucracy was billed as a tough-minded and necessary corrective to the growth of the government's power.
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In my mind then (ten years ago), gay men didn't make sense in my favorite sport because of what Crawley observed: They didn't fit into what I perceived as the culture of being a tough-minded competitor.
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It snapped Golden State's 123-game home winning streak, gave Boston a 2-2 mark on its current five-game road trip and signaled to many that Brad Stevens' team is as tough-minded as any other.
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A diminutive man — he was 5-foot-5 — with a shrewd business sense, the elder Mr. Nederlander was known for a tough-minded resistance to the demands of actors, producers and unions, and for an acerbic wit.
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Abrams, described by Pompeo as a "seasoned, principled and tough-minded foreign policy veteran," accompanied the secretary of state Saturday to urge the United Nations Security Council to recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president.
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" Ms. Scott Thomas's furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption, as does the film's tough-minded resistance to the temptations of melodrama," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times of this directorial debut by Philippe Claudel.
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Ball In The Family, which concluded its 10-episode debut season on Sunday night, presents LaVar in the whole: uproarious, uncompromising, and typically tough-minded, but just as loving and as considerate as you'd hope any parent would be.
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" Geomancy is an ancient means of divination involving throwing soil and rocks and interpreting their omens; Grahm, in the Northern California way, is an agreeable mixture of tough-minded agricultural science and what he calls "Santa Cruz woo-woo.
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She and Mr. Tucker, an American-born filmmaker, together made a series of tough-minded, intellectually curious shorts and features, including "Gunner Palace" (2005), one of the first documentaries about the Iraq War and still one of the best.
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"Dirk Nowitzki is probably one of the most tough-minded NBA players I've been around," Toronto head coach Dwane Casey, who was an assistant coach for the Nowitzki-led Mavericks team that won an NBA title in 2011, told Reuters.
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But he is an earnest, tough-minded, extremely practical and pragmatic 73-year-old businessman who would only win if the other choices seemed at the time so awful and so damaged that they appeared to be thoroughly un-presidential.
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But love and marriage were not why Tooba went to Syria, and there was no way that someone as tough-minded as her would take a back seat once she arrived in Raqqa, the Islamic State's former de facto capital.
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The GOP badly needs a position on climate change that doesn't rest on denying the science, appears more "tough-minded" and "America first" than the Dem position, and doesn't commit to any domestic policy that might offend fossil fuel donors.
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R. Nicholas Burns, the third-ranking official at the State Department in the George W. Bush administration, said that Mr. Pompeo was "a serious and tough-minded person" — and that the public did not know what Mr. Pompeo said in private.
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Under the calm exterior, though, is a tough-minded, hard-driving visionary who founded England's Manchester International Festival and ran it for ten years, and turned the Park Avenue Armory into one of Manhattan's most exciting venues for new performance works.
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And Gantz himself is no lefty and in many ways represents the old Likud party -- tough-minded on security and peace but strongly supportive of the rule of law, anti-corruption and focusing on unity and civility in Israeli politics.
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It is a tough-minded act to become uniquely oneself against society's onslaught of conformist pressures and the mass-market culture of sameness, most especially when that becoming involves defying dominant norms and risking the loss of your family and friends.
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Her contribution, however, is not popular, either with Jamal's tough-minded wife, Dorothy (Zazie Beetz), who calls the actress "a tourist," or at the Bureau, where, under the baneful aegis of J. Edgar Hoover , the decision has been made to persecute Seberg.
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Since Moscow doesn't seem to be interested in annexing eastern Ukraine and sustaining the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples' Republics, the tough-minded but pragmatic U.S. Special Envoy Kurt Volker might feasibly secure an agreement that returns them to Ukrainian control.
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Through wheeling and dealing, shaming and cajoling, Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, got his wish, and his favored provision was grafted incongruously onto a tough-minded Republican border security amendment and paid for by higher visa fees for some foreign travelers.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like "The Left Hand of Darkness" and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore.
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Washington (CNN)A group of Republican senators released a stern letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday calling for a "tough-minded and principled policy" toward Russia and urging that Trump "should maintain the current US sanctions regime" until Russian policy in Ukraine and Syria is changed.
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There probably isn't much if any truth to the story — among other things, Catherine was too smart and tough-minded to be that easily deceived — but never mind: the legend has become a byword for the general idea of prettifying reality to please a tyrannical ruler.
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What about Joan Didion's famously tough-minded essay in The Review in 1991 on the Central Park jogger case, which raised doubts about the guilt of the five accused teenagers, all of whom were black or Hispanic, while parsing the sentimentalized stories told about white rape victims?
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Things like banning Muslims from entering the United States, talking about bombing ISIS-held territory with less regard for civilian life, and — as Donald Trump put it — being "very strong in terms of looking at the mosques" are not tough-minded ideas to solve a serious problem.
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The steely, tough-minded geometry of Neoclassicism that furnished the corridors of power in the wake of the American and French Revolutions was meant to show a skeptical world that these new, fledgling republics were part of an ancient lineage of self-rule, and built to stand the test of time.
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Her letters to her cousin (and, eventually, husband) Houghton, with whom she had an epistolary romance, are hugely charming, contradictory, and more inviting than her finished prose; they reveal her as a kind of early Katharine Hepburn character, tough-minded but touched by self-doubt and its literary indicator, self-deprecating humor.
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But let's be tough-minded and think this new controversy through: According to a Times report by Maggie Haberman and Amy Chozick, during the 2008 presidential campaign, a senior Clinton aide named Burns Strider was accused of sexually harassing a woman who had the bad luck to be working in his office.
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The copious programming of the Tribeca Film Festival (April 13-24) stretches quality a little thin, but the best films in this year's edition are worthwhile viewing, starting with "Actor Martinez," a tough-minded yet wryly ironic behind-the-scenes look at the personal relationships that can make or poison a movie.
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Not only was it considered acceptable for pundits to speculate about the limitations of other races or women, or to engage with the nastier corners of the intellectual right, but it was often seen as a good thing — a sign that one was tough-minded and decidedly not beholden to 1960s-era leftism.
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Here are a few alternates that didn't quite make the cut: HYPER/CRITIC/ALLY INTER/MEDIA/TING TOUGH/MINDED/NESS LIEU/TENANTS/HIPS APP/RENT/ICES/HIPS STAND/OF/FISH/NESS The first version we submitted included the revealer THE SPLITS clued as [Show of flexibility ... and what 16−, 25−, and 40−Across each do].
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While multinational corporations such as Disney, Goldman Sachs and IBM have opposed the president's decision to walk away from the international climate agreement, many small companies around the country were cheering him on, embracing the choice as a tough-minded business move that made good on Mr. Trump's commitment to put America's commercial interests first.
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Some of these movies — "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (on Friday and Saturday), with its wintry gas station finale, or "Remember the Night" (on Friday and Saturday), in which Fred MacMurray's tough-minded assistant district attorney softens and brings Barbara Stanwyck's shoplifter home for Christmas — never get old, and others are older than you might think.
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"It is Russia's actions which threaten the international order on which we all depend," May said on Monday night at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London, where she delivered the kind of tough-minded message to the Kremlin that American presidents used to send: I want to be clear about the scale and nature of these actions.
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Abortion is not the only subject on which Mr. Trump could be forced to defend or explain his remarks in a tough-minded presidential debate: The ads being run by Mr. Cruz, for example, also show a clip of Mr. Trump, in November, asking "how stupid" the people of Iowa must be for believing Ben Carson's story of personal redemption.
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"My guess was that I would be doing theater, or that I'd want to be doing theater, so I wanted to be in Manhattan in a safe location where there was public transportation," said Ms. Emond, 57, who plays a tough-minded Jewish mother in the film adaptation of the Philip Roth novel "Indignation," and a similarly controlling character, a crime boss named Momma, in "The Land," which both open July 29.
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Today, there's a Web site that lists the top fifty books on aging, which, alas, omits William Ian Miller's eccentric " Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain "(2011); Lynne Segal's judicious but tough-minded " Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing " (2013); and Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore's smart, provocative "A ging Thoughtfully: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, & Regret " (2017), in which a philosopher and a law professor discuss everything from "Lear" to the transmission of assets.
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