Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Facing facts and difficulties with strength and determination; realistic and resolute.
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- adjective Not
distracted from actual facts byenticements ,intimidation , orsentimentality ;steadfast in one'sactions ,commitments ,beliefs , etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination
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Examples
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• We haven't heard the Cowboys called a tough-minded team much in recent seasons, but that's the emerging trait I see from Jason Garrett's 7-4 team, which has now won four in a row.
SI.com 2011
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• We haven't heard the Cowboys called a tough-minded team much in recent seasons, but that's the emerging trait I see from Jason Garrett's 7-4 team, which has now won four in a row.
CNN.com 2011
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They start out tough-minded, funny and unflinching in the excavation of their characters' fears and foibles.
Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow Sam Sacks 2011
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It needs, instead, a tough-minded industrial and business agenda which gives people some hope that the next recovery will bring real jobs across the country, and that people will have the skills to take them.
Under Ed Miliband's lead, Labour's new generation must step up Jackie Ashley 2010
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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 Matthew Bishop 2011
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Analysts questioned whether such a deal between two famously tough-minded management teams could work out.
Whitehaven, Aston Discuss Coal Merger David Fickling 2011
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Tim is clueless when it comes to the ways of conventioneers, so he is swept off his feet by a sexy insurance agent from Nebraska — she's played engagingly by Anne Heche — and knocked for interlocking loops by his roommates, the crazed Dean (John C. Reilly in full, glorious bray), and the tough-minded Ronald (Isiah Whitlock Jr., who played the terrifyingly corrupt state senator in "The Wire").
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Martinez has brought out great tenderness in Smirnoff, a fiery Russian who is known for being tough-minded and strong-willed.
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When Mike Griffin was first appointed to be the NASA administrator, I had great hopes for him, as I perceived him to be an enlightened, tough-minded, and thoughtful "scientist-administrator," rather than a business-oriented accountant.
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The theory was that great nations start out tough-minded and energetic.
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