Hard-headed stubbornness is not s trait that people generally admire in others, politicians or otherwise.
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He was a lifelong Democrat, a representative of that dying breed, the hard-headed cold war liberal.
But perhaps above all it fits with his post-Bin Laden projection as a hard-headed risk taker.
The National Intelligence Council, however, is about as hard-headed an organisation as can be imagined.
When I became a local radio reporter, I delivered my first voice piece to the hard-headed news editor.
But his refreshingly hard-headed approach (confined to Britain, but easily adapted to other countries) comes to some sobering conclusions.
It was hard-headed (America must remove the Iraqi dictator, not because he is evil, but because he threatens the region).
With even the opposition in Britain urging a "hard-headed" approach to the EU's problems David Cameron has little room for manoeuvre.
While the wine committee's analysis is clearly hard-headed, there is some evidence that it is not entirely immune to external political pressures.
Until now, vice-chancellors and student leaders have insisted that universities are not about hard-headed seller-buyer relationships but about high-minded partnerships for learning.
Madura is a barren island, and the Madurese are known throughout Indonesia for being hard-headed survivors who are ready to fight for their living.
Richard possessed a hard-headed, clear-eyed realism about how the world works.
But I don't blame him, you now, New Orleanians sometimes are hard-headed, and sometimes you have to speak directly and clearly in the way that they understand it.
Warm-hearted but soft-headed, maybe: but better than being cold-hearted and hard-headed.
Now it has begun to seep into the more hard-headed, vote-scrounging parts of the Republican Party, and become common chatter among political operatives from both parties.
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Bridging the gap between creativity and hard-headed business strategy is a process that, when perfected, can yield results that both inspire emotions and bloat bank accounts.
The scheme thus aims to match a hard-headed acknowledgement of the problems of contemporary city life with a softer vision of a better future very New Labour.
However, while they all seem blind to the moral arguments for curbing the Burmese regime, there are some more hard-headed reasons for taking a harder line.
It not only guarantees a wider audience, but also helps consolidate the hard-headed sponsors who want to see a return for their investment in the new venture.
"Our membership has arisen and has been maintained because of a hard-headed, calculated and pragmatic decision by successive governments, including successive leaders of the Conservative Party, " he said.
It is about practical, hard-headed co-operation between two sovereign countries.
Germany did not become a role model by being hard-headed.
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Council leader Vivien Pengelly called it a "hard-headed commercial deal".
For this gamble to pay the sorts of long-term returns the Bush Administration hopes for, however, it must be rooted in hard-headed realism, based on transparency and practical measures.
The surprising object lesson: hard-headed Scotland, which in the 17th century attempted to build an overland trading route across the isthmus of Panama starting in an area known as Darien.
Nonsense, reply other hard-headed Socialists such as Mrs Aubry and Mrs Guigou: after half a century with little progress, quotas, however unpalatable, are the only way of loosening the male stranglehold on power.
Discredited supply-side ideology ran headlong into hard-headed accounting.
Even when he eventually comes to terms with Bowerman's tactics and sets a new standard for himself, it's viewed as another hard-headed victory for Steve rather than the combined accomplishment of two very different men.
So far, it is still Mr McCain's plan, which explicitly aims to pay for the transition to a partly privatised retirement system and places more emphasis on debt reduction, that remains the more hard-headed on the Republican side.
Or, in the case of Merritt, a self-conscious artist in the best sense, he knows that the accretion of detail over the course of these 13 songs has resulted in a realism that is vivid, hard-headed and never half-hearted.
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