In the vetting controversy, Wildstein was one of the most determined critics of the " thick line " policy and advocated a hard-nosed screening even at the expense of social peace.

He liked the school's history of producing major league talent and liked the school's hard-nosed mentality even more, especially after getting a recommendation from J. J. Newkirk, who played for Vargas's father, Joe, at Victor Valley High School.

He's approached his Democratic duties in hard-nosed engineering fashion.

Thommo and Sam's characters are similar ; a hard-nosed EP who would not hesitate to air questionable stories to attract ratings.

The latter was replaced by Hal Lanier who, like his manager mentor in St. Louis, Whitey Herzog, had a hard-nosed approach to managing and espoused a playing style that focused on pitching, defense, and speed rather than home runs to win games.

In Point Blank, an influential film for director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge.

She is tall, red-headed, hard-nosed and brilliant.

He had developed a reputation as a no-nonsense, hard-nosed lawman, but prior to the gunfight in October, 1881, had been involved in only one shooting in Dodge City during 1878.

During the 1970s, the Bulls were known as a tough, defensive-minded team, built around hard-nosed defender Jerry Sloan, forwards Bob Love and Chet Walker, point guard Norm Van Lier, and centers Clifford Ray and Tom Boerwinkle.

May was quite a strong-willed woman and even the hard-nosed Wolverine found it impossible to argue with her.

* Captain Sam Scabbard — hard-nosed, flat-top wearing officer, often as hard on Sarge as Sarge is on Beetle.

Schlesinger's hard-nosed business practices cannot be overstated.

Heidi is a hard-nosed businesswoman who cares nothing for games or gamers, and imposes continuously harsher deadlines for Hard 8 to show greater and greater profit margins, having threatened to close down the company more than once if it fails to show sufficient growth.

It was soon apparent that he disapproved of Steven's hard-nosed approach to journalism.

Jack continues the charade when new landlord Ralph Furley takes over the apartment complex because Mr. Furley insists that his hard-nosed brother Bart ( the building's new owner ) would also never tolerate such living situations.

Jennings was a fiery, hard-nosed player who was not afraid to be hit by a pitch to get on base.

He was known as a hard-nosed player, often infuriating opponents with his combative style and brash personality.

Respected critic Richie Unterberger describes the band as a group that " never had an ounce of credibility ", with music that was " innocuously bland in the extreme, making The Monkees ... sound positively innovative and hard-nosed in comparison.

" He further discussed his performance by indicating, " I was a fairly hard-nosed administrator.

With its combination of clever market manipulation, and hard-nosed dealings with the powerful Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ), the South Improvement scheme was an example of the type of business tactics which Rockefeller and his associates used to become successful.

His hard-nosed style caused him to miss significant time with injuries, and he had many problems with concussions.

The hard-nosed and practical training standards that Beckwith instituted would lend themselves to the birth of the modern Q-Course.

More than the Clinton Administration, it has been willing to see China as a strategic competitor, and it has been " far more eager ... to treat China with suspicion and adopt more hard-nosed policies.

* Jason Kravits as Richard Bay ( 1999 – 2001 ), a diminutive, hard-nosed Assistant District Attorney and frequent nemesis of the firm.

This story describes an expedition from a Utopian Socialist Earth arriving at a Mars which is divided between two oppressive, warring empires.

Utopias original edition included the symmetrical " Utopian alphabet " that was omitted from later editions ; it is a notable, early attempt at cryptography that might have influenced the development of shorthand.

* Marcus Spring 1810, New York City Cotton Merchant ; founded Utopian community at Perth Amboy, New Jersey

In 1824, in a precursor to modern Zionism, journalist and Utopian Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called Ararat, after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark.

This is perhaps unsurprising as both were profoundly influenced by the early Utopian socialist, Henri de Saint-Simon, who was at one time Comte's teacher and mentor.

Despite its highly personal perspective and agenda, The Assault on Culture: Utopian currents from Lettrisme to Class War ( Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London, 1988 ) is considered a useful art-history work, providing an introduction to a range of cultural currents which had, aluthet that time at least, been under-documented.

The Print Shop, constructed in about 1890, is the last remaining historic building at Brook Farm, though it is not associated with the Transcendentalist Utopian community.

In the sixth Oz book by Baum, The Emerald City of Oz ( 1910 ), when Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are unable to pay the mortgage on the new farmhouse built at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy brings them to live in Oz ; the bulk of their appearance in the book dealing with her and her aunt and uncle is their tour of Oz, showing them the marvelous, Utopian land in which they have escaped the troubles of Kansas.

Although the Utopian Charles Fourier is considered a feminist writer of this period, his influence was minimal at the time.

In his early science fiction book The Begum's Millions, Jules Verne depicted a fictional Utopian community named Ville-France being created in 1872 at the Coquille River's confluence with the Pacific, slightly south-west of the actual site of Bandon.

Tytler dismisses the more optimistic vision of democracy by commentators such as Montesquieu as " nothing better than an Utopian theory, a splendid chimera, descriptive of a state of society that never did, and never could exist ; a republic not of men, but of angels ," for " While man is being instigated by the love of power -- a passion visible in an infant, and common to us even with the inferior animals -- he will seek personal superiority in preference to every matter of a general concern ; or at best, he will employ himself in advancing the public good, as the means of individual distinction and elevation: he will promote the interest of the state from the selfish but most useful passion of making himself considerable in that establishment which he labors to aggrandize.

* Private Visions, Utopian Ideals: The Art of Howard Ben Tré, 2005, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

This is perhaps unsurprising as both were profoundly influenced by the early Utopian socialist, Henri de Saint-Simon, who was at one time Comte's teacher and mentor.

Politically Goldschmidt was at the beginning a rebel with republican sympathies and flirting with Utopian socialist views ( a novelty of Danish literature ) but from the 1850s he came closer to a more traditional liberal ideology, and his attempts of playing a political role as an editor aroused accusations of opportunism.

He also became a close friend of the socialist philosopher Edward Carpenter, whose Utopian community ideas led to his developing a small commune at Millthorpe near Sheffield.

In 1902 Parker and Unwin were asked to design a model village at New Earswick near York for Joseph and Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, and the following year they were given the opportunity to take part in the creation of Letchworth ( loosely based on the Utopian plan of Ebenezer Howard ), when the First Garden City Company asked them to submit a plan.

The available corpus of Utopian texts allows us to identify at least three cases for nouns ( nominative, accusative, and ablative ), and at least two tenses for verbs ( present and past ).

He is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and has been involved in the Communal Studies Association ( US ) and Utopian Studies Society ( Europe ), and is Past President of the International Communal Studies Association ( Israel ).