hard-handed


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physically toughened so as to have great endurance

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For Israeli Jews, it is the long-proven false belief that hard-handed responses to violent acts and repression will keep Palestinian anger and frustration in check.
And the hard-handed approach won't stop Yours Truly from publishing politically incorrect jokes.
The result, they wrote, is "the hard-handed monopolistic behavior" of BCBS and "the loss of a vibrant, competitive health insurance market in Mississippi."
Philostrate: Hard-handed men, that work in Athens here,
Apart from a top-down hard-handed approach, stamping out the trade will require educating fishermen of the different types of sharks in regional waters and their status.
They analyze how his personal greed and illegal actions was (a) core to the conflict at the national level, and (b) how his hard-handed and martial like treatment of the south exacerbated the frightening situation there.
His hard-handed push back to Steyn to be caught and bowled second ball was an error a player of his calibre should not make.
(mf, meno moss, con calma e rassegnazione) This hard-handed and obdurate, Transfixed, never-learning, Vengeful and violent Holy Land ape.
In a move that reminded some of the hard-handed tactics of a certain Seattle-based software firm, Cadence went to the media to make its buyout overtures known to the world after Mentor rebuffed them behind closed doors.
The fact is that modern batsmen encounter well-controlled finger-spin so rarely, that their hard-handed technique makes them sitting ducks.
There are so many complementary aspects between the internal market and consumer protection "that they cannot be separated," she explained, while nevertheless attributing more importance to debate and to finding a compromise than to the "hard-handed politics".
As for the international criticism of Israel's hard-handed military response, Gordon says it is clear that if Hizbullah had the ability, it would wipe out Israel, while Israel would never do such a thing to Lebanon.
The hard-handed grip of the pirate on our collective imagination remains an unsolved cultural puzzle.
It seems that in this Midsummer, the "rude mechanicals"--the troupe of Athenian community actors, "hard-handed men...that never labored in their minds till now" (as Philostrate says, Act 5, Scene 1)--are to be represented as rural Minnesotans.