Sentence examples for hardheaded policy from inspiring English sources

But officially the opposition claimed to be all about hardheaded policy empiricism.

Can the dim colonial past exert a tug even on the hardheaded policy makers in the Bush administration?

Hardheaded policy makers have to have the courage to flout conventional morality — to borrow even when the country is sick of borrowing.

When Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, he promised a more hardheaded foreign policy.

But Canada's hospitable attitude is not innate; it is, rather, the product of very hardheaded government policies.

The move will be watched closely by an international community that has struggled to foster political change in Bosnia and Herzegovina despite trying hardheaded "tough love" policies and offering inducements like the eventual prospect of E.U. membership.

They've run ads about her as a sensible, hardheaded leader on public policy issues.

But, as she has demonstrated in the Senate, her foreign-policy views are hardheaded and pragmatic.

In a best-case scenario, a Romney foreign policy might be more hardheaded and less shot through with wishful thinking than the current administration's posture; in a worst-case scenario, it would blunder more deeply into messes where we're already enmeshed, substituting the rhetoric of toughness for actual clarity of purpose and chest-thumping for finesse.

For O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the book bridges his longstanding interest in disarmament with his experience as a hardheaded expert in military affairs and foreign policy.

"But you can't create public policy that depends on having obsessed, hardheaded people to get these projects done.