tough-minded [
'tʌf'maɪndɪd]
a. 意志坚强的, 讲求实际的
tough-minded[ adj ]
facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination
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- But, that source said, in the same conversation Mr. Carlzon conceded that he was concerned about the negative view many people have of the tough-minded Mr. Lorenzo, his Texas Air empire, and Eastern.
- Again, we can learn a profitable lesson: However distasteful cynicism and suspicion may be, tough-minded diplomacy is a precondition to peace.
- "Gaby" is a tough-minded yet emotional piece of work with some extraordinary performances.
- Judging by what Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had to say in his letter to skeptical senators, this tough-minded Middle Eastern leader may climb aboard Secretary of State George P. Shultz's peace shuttle after all.
- Today's cricket must be good; and Glyndebourne takes its audiences seriously enough to challenge them with tough-minded productions. Not so Chichester.
- During the 1980s Merrill over-expanded, and by the latter half of the decade the company was overmanned and its staff overpaid. In 1989 the management adopted what Mr Schreyer terms a 'lean and tough-minded' approach to cost management.
- A panel dealing with hate speech, scheduled for tonight, will yield reasonably tough-minded debate on the First Amendment.
- He describes the ex-Marine as "tough-minded, confrontational and a brilliant planner," who mapped his own restructuring plan in the early 1980s and implemented it at his own pace.
- The 72-year-old prime minister, a former underground fighter and senior spymaster, has a reputation for being tough-minded.
- He will be looking for people like Janice Thurmond, a tough-minded pragmatist.
- As the two parallel narrative lines eventually converge, the result is at once very tender and very tough-minded.