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Example sentences for: hardball

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The government's lawyers suspect that the real source of Lamberth's ire is not the sloppy sentence in an affidavit but the government attorneys' hardball tactics and unwillingness to compromise, which drew the case out for four years .
(This, in turn, ties into a favorite fantasy of mine: I am invited to appear on Hardball With Chris Matthews to debate, say, flag burning.
On the LAT opinion page, James DeLong, general counsel for the National Legal Center, writes that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact offer much proof that Microsoft deals rough with competitors, but virtually none that these hardball tactics harm consumers.
( Hardball , 10/13)
But at least they're something to fill an hour of Hardball .