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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.
As yet, hard-nosed empirical evidence is scarce and many causal relationships are still left unexplored.
What we have discovered tonight is that that hard-nosed policy in foreign affairs has won the day.
Those who will be interested are hard-nosed speculators and investors.
Hard-nosed criminals can only be tackled successfully by a concerted, equally hard-nosed approach by the authorities.
Other countries do not have the hard-nosed water companies that we have.
Behind the cosy refuge of community care, there is the hard-nosed reality.
People who rob supermarkets are generally hard-nosed criminals.
