For the first two decades of his film career, he was typecast as a tough guy in a succession of supporting roles.
Vice-President Joseph Estrada, who wants to become president and revels in a tough guy image, is likely to relish the Spratlys issue.
But he is a tough guy who never cracks.
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Back in the brutal primary battle early in the year, when Republican activists chose their candidate, Mr Romney was forced to paint himself as a tough guy on immigration, so as to outflank his rivals.
As a medical professional, I think it's a great thing, as highlighting the problems with obesity and showing - especially as like kind of a tough guy - that it's OK as a tough guy to do something to take care of your weight and to take care of your family, I think that's a great message.
Even former coach Bob Knight, a renowned tough guy who once threw a chair across a gym, has been crying.
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So what better venue than a Nascar race to pick up a tough-guy image?
Frost was a poet, but he was also a pretty tough guy.
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He joined them with a tough-guy reputation after he survived being stabbed by a gang member in Utah while hosting his younger brother on a recruiting visit.
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Mr Ramos's successor, President Joseph Estrada (a former tough-guy film actor) has shown far less patience.
Jim Nashe (Mandy Patinkin) is a mixture of tough guy and wandering spirit.
Crandall, of course, is known as a very tough financial guy.
Ms. Ephron's Mike McAlary is a hard-drinking tough-guy Irish reporter who lets fame and money go to his head and turns into a jerk, and Mr. Hanks, here as always, is too ingratiating ever to let himself become truly unlikable.
It's tough to beat a guy with powerful friends and plenty of experience overcoming difficulties.
Emanuel has made a career of being the tough guy.
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And America intuitively knows that behind that tough guy persona is a genuinely decent man who has taken his position as a role model seriously.
Whether politically motivated or not, Abdullah may find his new tough-guy role a difficult one with which to win his audiences - both inside and outside UMNO.
Barofsky is a former U.S. attorney, a prosecutor who earned his tough-guy reputation putting Refco executives in jail for fraud and bringing Colombian drug dealers to justice.
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