Hard Nosed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hard nosedhard nosed
facing reality squarely guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory tough and pragmatic as a hard nosed businessman...
hardnose
A hard nosed person one who is realistic and pragmatic and is impatient with those who are not...
Nosed
Having a nose or such a nose chiefly used in composition as pug nosed...
Shovel nosed
Having a broad flat nose as the shovel nosed duck or shoveler...
Snub nosed
Having a short flat nose slightly turned up as the snub nosed eel...
Hard labour
Hard labour, a punishment said to have been intro-duced by 5 Anne, c. 6. By the (English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 16(1), 'where a person convicted by or before any Court of an offence is sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, the imprisonment may, in the discretion of the court, be either with or without hard labour, notwithstanding that the offence is an offence at common law, or that the statute under which the sentence is passed does not authorize the imposition of hard labour or requires the imposi-tion of hard labour.' Imprisonment for default in payment of a fine is always without hard labour....
Bottle nosed
Having the nose bottle shaped or large at the end...
Copper nose
A red nose...
Hard
Not easily penetrated cut or separated into parts not yielding to pressure firm solid compact applied to material bodies and opposed to soft as hard wood hard flesh a hard apple...
Hook nosed
Having a hooked or aquiline nose...
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