hard-nosed Definitie in het Nederlands

Examples of hard-nosed

• People who rob supermarkets are generally hard-nosed criminals.

• Behind the cosy refuge of community care, there is the hard-nosed reality.

• Other countries do not have the hard-nosed water companies that we have.

• Hard-nosed criminals can only be tackled successfully by a concerted, equally hard-nosed approach by the authorities.

• Those who will be interested are hard-nosed speculators and investors.

• What we have discovered tonight is that that hard-nosed policy in foreign affairs has won the day.

• As yet, hard-nosed empirical evidence is scarce and many causal relationships are still left unexplored.

• One thinks of the stereotypical hard-nosed man-of-action (with apologies to women of that type) steeped in pragmatic business decision-making.