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He has a reputation as a hard-nosed negotiator.
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a hard-nosed negotiator
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.