Mr Crosland, perhaps the finest mind to have sat on the Labour benches, is a hard man to emulate.
Emmanuel Besnier may be a hard man to track down in person, but his fortune is slightly easier to trace.
So inclusive has the first minister become that it's getting hard to imagine him returning to his old "hard man" rhetoric.
Mr Haradinaj had swapped his fatigues for smart suits and his reputation as a hard man for that of an able politician.
The phrases "hard man" or "tough guy" simply seem inadequate.
And Mr Adams, who learnt most of his political skills from doctrinal debates with fellow inmates of the Long Kesh prison camp, is nothing if not a hard man.
"Aleksas is a hard working big man who will add toughness and smartness to our squad, " said James.
He said Zazi was a hard-working man who was single-handedly supporting his family.
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Diaz's mother Genie Hernandez described it as a "senseless crime" against a hard-working man trying to raise a family.
It's especially hard for a man who admits he has a sweet tooth -- "I might nick the children's chocolate or a cup of tea" -- and often succumbs to temptation.
Stevens, though outwardly calm, is regarded as an extraordinarily passionate and hard-working man, described by his own college basketball coach as one of the most selfless and team-oriented players he's ever seen.
This man is hard to please IN THE MARKET for an extended-cab pickup, I asked Jerry Flint for advice.
The judge said Mr Griffith was a fine, hard-working young man with a promising life ahead of him who was greatly loved.
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The lawyer described his client as a hard-working young man who had served as a father figure to his teenage sister and is himself the father of a baby son born to his late girlfriend.
"I believe it's really hard to find a faithful man, " says Estrada's daughter.
Amardeep Kaleka said his father worked hard and was an honest man.
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The rural living and the hard work would bring the man back to health, so the job would be like granting a favor.
Since it is not hard to give a poor man a cause, neither regular armies nor rebel ones have much trouble recruiting in Africa.
He shows us pictures of him as a young man, trying hard to look older by growing a beard, carrying a rifle or manning an anti-aircraft cannon.
It is hard to imagine that a man who speaks fluent Spanish and has a Latina sister-in-law really stands for white racist values, as he has sometimes seemed to suggest.
It's an imperfect story of an often reckless young man who lived hard and as a U.S. senator drove a car off a bridge after a party, killing a young campaign aide.
Brecht could hardly have imagined such a document: a capitalist enterprise that feeds on the misery of man trying as hard as it can to be sure that nothing is done to decrease that misery.
Short of developing language (and there are a few researchers who believe that chimps can also manage that), it is hard to see what more man's closest relatives could possibly be required to do to be admitted to the culture club.
It's a hard decision to pick the right man to do the right job.
Christian Bale is the transplanted Massachusetts man and rancher, hard up for cash, who helps transport Wade to a prison train.
"They are going at my man Mike Rice too hard, " Woodall tweeted.
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