| Still, the White Sox were a delight, baseball players playing country hardball. |
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| The photos depict women participating in every sport from ping-pong to pole-vaulting, from hunting to hardball. |
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| So far, Bloomberg has played a spectacular game of political hardball with the union. |
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| Kenneth Kane continues his recent good form, he is hoping to add the All-Ireland 60x30 softball to the hardball title he won earlier this year. |
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| Unions engaged in contract negotiations say the company is playing hardball by trying to reduce benefits. |
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| Action aficionados should have nary a complaint with the quality of the hardball played here. |
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| If Jackson plays hardball, he will point to the massive contracts that defensive tackles are pulling down. |
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| For years I've played men's league hardball with my friend Brad, a fellow partner in our Cincinnati accounting firm. |
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| Still, it wasn't hard to grasp the meeting's big theme, a bitter game of hardball between the haves and have-nots. |
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| In The Hill, he nicely untangles the web of money contributions and Washington hardball that led thirteen Senators to bully him into backing off. |
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| This was interpreted by most as a reality check, a warning that to play hardball with the contractors could be counterproductive. |
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| If you read some of the dozens of spring previews, you'll read that your local hardball team had perhaps the worst offseason in all of baseball. |
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| Last year they moved the tournament to the Shore Racquet Club a few miles south in Somers Point and played hardball on softball courts. |
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| I have friends who've paid a lot of money to go to baseball fantasy camps to play hardball with ex-major leaguers. |
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| The company's hardball approach has starkly highlighted the way America's tobacco politics have come to Britain. |
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| This is the least penetrative of the conventional hollowpoint.45 rounds and, like all standard pressure 185 gr. loads, kicks less than hardball. |
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| Playing hardball means standing and putting the interests of Canadians first. |
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| In any case, the healthy sampling below confirms the narrative-friendly qualities of hardball. |
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| We don't want our politicians to play the same game of hardball that our opponents play but whine and wring our hands when they win using those tactics. |
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| The team is seeking experienced players 16 and older with hardball, fast pitch or softball experience that have a desire to play at an elite international caliber. |
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| Pearson was playing political hardball, using a pragmatic strategy designed to prise extra resources out of a conservative electorate and its government. |
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| Transfixingly candid and gamely stepping up to the plate for a round of hardball, Lohan seemed to be answering yes. |
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| If the minister wants to play in the big league with the Americans he had best be prepared to play hardball. |
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| With regard to the United States, we cannot play hardball on this kind of thing and think we will come out winning. |
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| Independent officials who play hardball politics may well be rewarded accordingly. |
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| They are playing hardball and that member wants to throw a puffball at the Americans. |
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| Twenty-two coaches voted to switch to softball, seven to keep hardball. |
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| But these guys do play a splendid game of hardball, we must allow. |
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| Eyewear is required in softball and hardball, singles and doubles. |
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| Perhaps the only way to get the Americans to show us some respect is to play a bit of hardball with them. |
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| There's been some good evidence from the United States of very hardball, hands-on type campaigns that have been successful. |
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| Not for the sake of having new aircraft, but rather because the competition is playing hardball. |
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| Fifth, continue with diplomatic efforts and let us play diplomatic hardball with these people with the aforementioned sanctions. |
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| We have to get a message to the Americans. If the Americans understand anything, they understand hardball and they respect it. |
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| This president has played plenty of hardball and softball with members of Congress. |
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| And rightly or wrongly, most people associate Chicago with hardball politics and corruption. |
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| The amendment has a curious backstory involving McCarthyism and hardball Texas politics. |
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| Before Volunteer Stadium was built in 2001, teams wanting to play extra hardball were taken to sandlots around town to thump local Little Leaguers. |
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| But under the ad hoc rules of crony capitalism, the law counts for little and political hardball is the modus operandi. |
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| It's gratifying to see the Democrats be better at hardball than the Republicans for a change. |
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| But Angelos, one of the nation's leading labor attorneys, protracts most of his baseball negotiations, playing hardball with employees who can pursue better options. |
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| Certainly, she knows how to play hardball. |
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| The Luxembourg native indicated that she would not hesitate to play hardball and, if necessary, begin infringement procedures against EU member states, even big ones. |
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| No matter what you do they are going to play hardball. |
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| The lawyers' hardball tactics have been so rough that at least one child was left in tears. |
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| But that could change quickly if the Rams decide to play hardball with Warner and his agent. |
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| Last week on hardball, Kathleen Parker said he is definitely running. |
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| He was more than willing to extend the terms of the loan, but his boss decided to play hardball and demanded a balloon payment. |
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| Arsenal, for their part, will console themselves at the loss of Higuaín by making a move for Geoffrey Kondogbia, although Monaco are apparently playing hardball on that one. |
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| Iraqis have learned to play hardball politics. |
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| Will the Democrats engage in an aggressive, hardball type strategy? |
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| Such hardball tactics – and the accusations of climate denial – put Edelman in an uncomfortable position with some of its other clients, according to Kert Davies of the Climate Investigations Center. |
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| The White House has played a kind of hardball, no question about that. |
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| The slugger was tongue-tied about her accomplishment, but her godmother, Leslie Mendez of Sylmar, explained that Lorrina plays hardball when it comes to the national pastime. |
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| However, it would have been better served to do this in years past rather than foster the image of heavy-handedness that flows from its hardball business practices. |
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| The cover story of last July's Journal was on hardball litigation tactics. It quoted lawyers talking about pulling out all the stops, going for the jugular. |
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