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Example sentences for: hard-won

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They cannot even borrow money for some employment-generating public spending, because fiscal indiscipline would undermine the peso's hard-won credibility.
Armed with the hard-won discoveries I sacrificed my waistline for, you can go to your supermarket and confidently fill your shopping cart.
But now the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate seems to be leveling off--reflecting, Chatterbox supposes, some hard-won equilibrium between teen-agers' greater use of contraceptives, on the one hand, and their greater disinclination to marry their high school sweethearts, on the other.
It was harder to forgo the beautiful ones--elegant, blond Clare, for instance, with her hard-won hauteur and Lilly Daché hats and petal-white skin.
Never mind that a wily Internet jackal, in the form of Matt Drudge, leapt out of the jungle of cyberspace and ran off with a juicy chunk of Spikey's hard-won meal.