Since Hungary's election in April put the hard-edged Viktor Orban in power, it is payback time.
Talk, even from a president as winning as Mr Obama, needs to be accompanied by some hard-edged diplomacy.
The sea offers space, a view to a distant horizon, a physical perspective less oppressive than hard-edged close-up urban architecture.
His love of industrial materials and dedication to complexity and abstraction produces work of dynamic vitality with a distinctive, hard-edged aesthetic.
By background, she is a hard-edged realist, a believer in the uses of American power and the importance of great-power relations.
That includes games like the hard-edged Star Wars 1313 which was meant to be a darker look into the Star Wars universe.
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Over 40 years Jack has mixed in business coverage of the organization along with some hard-edged opinions that some believe to be entirely unfair.
Angular and athletic with a menacing pout and searing blue eyes, the French actor has made his name playing hard-edged, morally compromised, often unlikeable characters.
Still critics said the Canadian star, who turned 19 on Friday, risked alienating fans by behaving with the same disregard for timekeeping as more hard-edged rock stars.
We're not sure how comfortable that "Ultrabook" configuration will be for users considering the hard-edged rim that pokes up just above the keyboard and cuts into the wrist.
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The hard-edged, almost hyperreal cinematography, by Conrad L. Hall, and the editing, by Tariq Anwar and Chris Greenbury, shift back and forth between dream and actuality with mesmerizing beauty.
The songs she was writing and storing along the way, some hard-edged, some bluntly comical, prove as matter-of-factly direct and daring in today's terms as Loretta Lynn's were in the 1960s.
Paul's late surge and possible win next week in Iowa are going to generate a huge burst of national media attention and plenty of hard-edged questions about his past and views.
Meanwhile, the fashionable idea that Asia's many hard-edged nationalisms had been softened by trade-weighted rationalism has been rudely knocked aside, not least by India's nuclear tests in May and the echoing booms from Pakistan.
We've taken some super up-close photos of Wii U karaoke title Sing Party, as well as comparison shots alongside its hard-edged Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 brethren, which can be found in the gallery below.
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Mr Carswell has hard-edged views on everything from economic management (he's very worried about inflation) to defence procurement (he thinks the British arms industry is taking the taxpayer for a ride) and he's not shy of expressing them.
He intends to, in part, be his own secretary of state, focused on re-sculpting America's global social contract and working in partnership with a diverse team of hard-edged policy players like Clinton to make even his rivals do his direct bidding.
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In 1964, the Republican Party was unhappily split going into the primaries that year, between a hard-edged, populist true believer who many feared might prove unelectable (Goldwater then, Palin today) and a wealthy northeastern governor distrusted by the base as wishy-washy (Rockefeller then, Romney today).
It is often said that there are two Republican parties: the congressional one in Washington, which is ideological, hard-edged and divisive, and the state Republicans (especially the governors), who are pragmatic, non-ideological, focused on social issues and willing to work with anyone to get things done.
It sometimes feels that way today: for while there is much statistical information published by the central banks, and while some are now even putting themselves up for ritual grillings by journalists, it's very hard to find a hard-edged discussion of the economic, political, diplomatic and strategic role of central banks within the current system.
Ponting fell soon after, while Cameron White (30) threatened a lower-order renaissance alongside Hopes before the hard-hitting Victorian edged Steyn to De Villiers, who was keeping wicket in place of the injured Mark Boucher.
The American style is more, hard edged, page-turning thriller.
Clijsters, meanwhile, was also made to work hard in her quarterfinal but eventually edged a rollercoaster clash with Lucie Safarova 6-1 0-6 6-4 at the Pat Rafter Arena.
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