The
hard-headed "realists" in the Jewish community don't wish to address these truths.
If we genuinely believe the whole religious picture of God/soul/eternal peace, then it's likely we will find more emotional security than the
hard-headed naturalist, since under these beliefs the individual is preserved in some form.
Sometimes presidents and controllers can seem
hard-headed when it comes to increasing fixed costs.
But they were
hard-headed,' said Regacho by telephone.
"I'm no saviour - the name's Sinclair, not St Clair - I'm a
hard-headed business man.
The most explosive social issue of them all requires a
hard-headed debate and participants should avoid scapegoating and scaremongering.
McColl is a
hard-headed businessman and won't let sentimentality get in the way.
BRITAIN must take a
hard-headed and longterm approach to intervening in the Iraq crisis or the problems there will "hit us at home", David Cameron has said.
Yet, like Virgin Money's decision recently to end support for the Northern Rock Foundation, this seems a little too
hard-headed.
But I am a pro-European of the
hard-headed rather than romantic variety because I am also clear about the limits to what can be politically and economically sustained.
Financial matters aside, what is required is strong leadership and backing from those in charge both on and off the field together with a realisation that nostalgia for a Waterloo that has passed is no substitute for some
hard-headed thinking that will take the club forward in the future.
In Kabul at the start of a two-day fact-finding mission, the Tory leader said that there needed to be a "
hard-headed assessment" of the situation in the country.
In the fashion of a
hard-headed American billionaire he has weighed up the pros and cons and decided the deal is one he can't miss.
The Bush administration is right to demand
hard-headed, businesslike approaches to finding the most effective solutions to bring positive change in the lives of the poor.