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• Perhaps there were aesthetic considerations, but the chief motives were more hard-headed.

• This is a hard-headed book with a small glimmer of golden heart somewhere at its core.

• Surely 'serious discussion' of these characters demands something more than simplistic reasoning and the hard-headed refusal to engage other scholars.

• There was no single turning point; he kept considering evidence and weighing options, and finally arrived at a decision, which represented the culmination of a long and hard-headed struggle.

• We need hard-headed research to even be able to accurately describe the character of the contemporary patterns of organised variability and the consequences thereof for human life course fulfilment.

• But the one essential thing is that they must all be hard-headed businessmen, ready to do business.

• It will need to work hard to convince hard-headed businessmen of that.

• It is no good following the advice of the hard-headed businessman who says: give the customer what he wants, ask the marketing director.

• That trend has been identified not by selfless, charitable manufacturers but by hard-headed and sensible ones.

• The insurance company, being a commercial concern, very rightly cannot be blamed for taking what might be regarded as a hard-headed view of the matter.

• There will be long, hard-headed negotiations and many all-night sittings.

• People do this presumably on the perfectly hard-headed grounds that they save money in that way.

• We are in a position to make a hard-headed assessment of what more we should do.

• However, we must be hard-headed about the way in which we act to pursue that goal.

• That having been said, the agreement implies on our part an act of hard-headed faith.