Voorbeelden van hard-nosed

• 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.