play hardball

It looks like our competitors want to play hardball.

看来,我们的竞争对手想采取强硬的手段.

Our competitors are using tactics that indicate that they want to play hardball.

我们的竞争对手所用的战术表明他们要动真格了.

Things are getting little tough. The president has decided to play hardball on this issue.

局势变得紧张起来, 总统决定对此事采取强硬手段进行干预.

Sometimes you just cannot compromise and have to play hardball.

有些情况下你就不能妥协,而必须采取强硬手段.

she can play hardball despite her small figure and gentle manners.

虽然她身材矮小，温文尔雅，但是该强硬的时候，她绝不后退。

So the Mayor wants to play hardball, and we're getting caught in a squeeze play.

市长想要采取强硬措施, 使我们陷入进退两难的局面.

They play hardball in the senate.

他们在参议院采取强硬态度.

The ad suggests that the US retailers are ready to play hardball and threatens to suck Alibaba into a political conflict before it launches an English-language version of its most popular site, Taobao.

该广告表明，美国零售商准备采取强硬态度，可能在阿里巴巴开通其最热门网站淘宝（Taobao）的英文版之前将其拖入一场政治冲突。

Maybe we should play hardball.

也许我们应该玩硬式棒球.

I want us to play hardball on this issue.

我希望我们在这个问题上不手软。