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Synonyms for hard-nosed

guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory

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It could turn out to be a hard-nosed middle ground one of the two remaining possibilities for Imran.
Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren, whose roles have ranged from a hard-nosed detective and Queen Elizabeth II, is to receive the British Academy Film Awards' highest honor.
According to Border, the side is missing the hard-nosed players to show them the way, the work ethic required at nets, adding that being underdogs, Australia needed to strike at the time when they are not given any chance.
This fiercely honest tribute to Ed Koch--the hard-nosed, exuberant figure who ruled New York City from 1978 through 1989--briskly interweaves frank interviews with the Democratic ex-mayor, grainy archival footage, critical testimony from Koch's contemporaries, and a classic-rock soundtrack into a documentary that intrigues and intoxicates like a David Mamet stage play.
THANKS to the BBC's superb blanket coverage of the Olympic Games even the most hard-nosed of cynics must have one or more never-to-be-forgotten sporting memories of the last 16 days.
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REGARDING the woman who was mistakenly taken for someone else and manhandled out of Tesco's store in Viaduct Street - the hard-nosed bosses offered her a pounds 20 voucher to spend in their store and a bunch of flowers.
Only at a gathering of proudly hard-nosed defense experts would such political goals be likened to a dreaded disease.
Will people still feel so warm towards a hard-nosed Thatcherite Tory?
It's the gritty action of the wham-bam Bourne meets the hard-nosed reality of current affairs as Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass team up to hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The innovative approach of the region, already recognised within Europe, has been recognised by both the new Department of Business and the Department of Communities and Local Government, as well as the hard-nosed European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund.
I'll always remember one particularly fabulous steward on the way to Brussels who decided to ad lib the safety talk and informed us hard-nosed travellers that there may be 50 ways to leave your lover but only six ways to leave this aeroplane - priceless.
Meanwhile, Osbourne's hard-nosed wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) revels in an extramarital affair with womaniser Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), who has also begun dating Linda.