He defended the President who had been criticized for a being
hard-headed Chief Executive and not receptive to the opinions of others.
But the barrister added: "Talented and popular he might have been, the Crown say he was nevertheless a
hard-headed businessman, with a financial acumen and pecuniary sense of his influence to his employers." Redknapp and Serbian Mandaric, 73, - who is now chairman of Huddersfield Town's League I rivals Sheffield Wednesday, having previously worked at Leicester City - deny two counts of cheating the public revenue while Redknapp was manager of Portsmouth FC.
These "
hard-headed" thinkers ignore what to me, at least, are some significant home truths:
The Prime Minister said: "My approach is
hard-headed internationalism - internationalist because global challenges need global solutions and nations must co-operate across borders - often with
hard-headed intervention - to give expression to our shared interests and shared values.
Ozawa has been working hard since April to bring the party together by downplaying his previous
hard-headed, go-it-alone image.
His intellectual heroes are George Kennan, the statesman who coined the policy of containment, and Reinhold Niebuhr, the theologian who reconciled moral principles with the
hard-headed interests of real-politik.
Sandpiper is a
hard-headed teen who has been defined by her sexual promiscuity.
He's not playing hard-to-get; he's just
hard-headed.
He must navigate a daily paper that, while devoting acres of space and gallons of words to the arts, has also begun to favor softly styled features over
hard-headed reviews and to specialize in woozy news stories written by reporters hardly in command of their subject or in touch with their sources.
Trainer Richard Mandella said: "She's very
hard-headed. Reminds me of a girl I used to date, then I married her!"
They reject the idea that it should be weighed down by "moral preference" or even as "a form of ethical behavior." They blame such ideas in large part for the refusal of
hard-headed pragmatists to take seriously the power of nonviolence to bring down oppressors.
Twenty years ago such work as Dr Kildea's might have found ready publication--things less substantial did--but at present, a
hard-headed commercialism and stress on fashionable subjects (of which religion is certainly not one) rules.