hard-nosed

"I'd say I'm fairly hard-nosed about stuff. When you're involved in sport, I think you do develop that resilience over years of training and the different setbacks you meet in sport."

In her Telegraph article, Badenoch sets out what she calls a "hard-nosed" policy on immigration.

It ended up being dependent on a hard-nosed US lender while waiting for government support that never materialised.

That was one case in which Ticketmaster’s hard-nosed competitive policies led to a wave of consumer discontent.

But she was beleaguered by whispered criticism from anonymous sources of her management style, which grated on the hard-nosed veterans at the network.