0 practical and determined:
1 practical and determined:
He has a reputation as a hard-nosed negotiator.
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a hard-nosed negotiator
To me, a hard-nosed total utilitarian, this settles the case.
Many in the environmental movement, on the other hand, see forest preservation as a moral imperative that should be exempted from hard-nosed economic analysis.
In these moments he allowed hard-nosed political realism to soften reforming zealotry.
It offers a cleareyed and hard-nosed assessment of the obstacles to constructing democracy on a continent where supportive social and economic conditions are largely absent.
Let us begin with the short form of the former, abbreviated here because it is rejected by all but the most extravagantly hard-nosed consequentialists.
Secondly, one might take a hard-nosed empiricist stand.
There is little evidence of complementary carers making their decisions on the basis of hard-nosed economic criteria.
One thinks of the stereotypical hard-nosed man-of-action (with apologies to women of that type) steeped in pragmatic business decision-making.