The statement accompanying the decision was, at first glance, hard nosed.

乍看起来，这样的声明和决定是非常死板顽固的。

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If nothing else, Doug is a hard-nosed businessman.

别的不说，道格起码是个精明务实的商人。

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It would be nice to report that a small band of hard-nosed Republicans was bringing fiscal restraint to California.

如果报道说，一小帮顽固的共和党人在给加州制定一个紧缩支出财政，那是好事。

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If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money,for an object or service.

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If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money, for an object or service.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Some people are said to be hard-nosed.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Right, time to pull myself together and get back to the hard nosed gaming journalism.

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Freshman legislators hide behind hard nosed rhetoric that if parsed through in terms of economic consequences leads to a deep recession that lasts and lasts.

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But Clinton may not understand a second apparent objective: to use U.S. policy under Clinton in a way that would undermine Rabin and his moderate Labor Party while elevating the hard nosed Likud.

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