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tough-minded

ADJECTIVE
  1. facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination

How To Use tough-minded In A Sentence

  • But even if tough-minded businessmen and a reform-minded government make all the right moves, B.C. is going to be a far different province in the 21st century.
  • The theory was that great nations start out tough-minded and energetic. The American Daydream
  • Thus, she plausibly can present herself as tough-minded here (more than plausibly perhaps - few have ever questioned her toughness).
  • A top "Kremlinologist," Goodman describes how Gates reversed a CIA tradition of delivering tough-minded intelligence reports with "the bark on."' OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates
  • In the case of my own parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, there were no traces of any mental disorder; both were highly self-confident and tough-minded. Henry’s Demons
  • But with sufficient will and attention, and a balanced, tough-minded approach, solutions are possible.
  • Cyn­i­cal, tough-minded, cigar-chewing edi­tors have teared up at the sight of Dustin Hoff­man and Robert Red­ford knock­ing on door after door, never giv­ingup. The Press’ New Paradigm « Snarkmarket
  • Both groups reinforced a mutual worldview that equated leadership with brilliant, tough-minded, and decisive strategic insight and decision making.
  • Whether it does so will depend on whether Prime Minister Cameron can resist the pressures for easy short-term political point-scoring and apply the same rigorous, tough-minded approach to reforming the institutions of capitalism and the Big Society that he has brought to cutting government spending down to size. How Britain Can Lead the World
  • They start out tough-minded, funny and unflinching in the excavation of their characters' fears and foibles. Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow
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