Battlefield medicine advances hard won in Iraq and Afghanistan were mobilized yesterday to treat those injured severely.
We fail to reward hard won experience and instead recruit and reward the cheapest and lowest common denominator.
Buffett crows about Geico, but the auto casualty business is tough and gaining market share costly and hard won.
Given South Africa's troubled history, such wisdom has been hard won: practically everyone has a fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking story to tell.
In the light of the West's awful history of religious warfare, if nothing else, that is a hard won and admirable principle.
The FSA's success has been hard won but it now faces the challenge of providing for the people who are in effect under its jurisdiction.
Our choices for last month's Fabulous 50 were also hard won.
If history is a guide, any change will be hard won.
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They are so keen to get new infrastructure projects up and running, they say they're using the government's "hard won fiscal credibility" to make it happen.
This redemption is hard won, accomplished through suffering and personal sacrifice, and at the end we find ourselves pondering how much this sympathetic, strangely innocent soul has lost in the process.
Other realizations, though apparently obvious, seem more hard won.
He and the rest of that great coxless four team led the race from the beginning, it was a tight finish, incredibly tight but very exciting and ensured the place in history was hard won.
Mr. Charoen's ascent has been hard won.
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And the Commons hierarchy is clearly worried that the outcome could be a report which either by being too soft or by going beyond what the evidence justifies, damages the new and hard won credibility of the select committee system.
Hard won, in a fast-moving socially networked age, a reputation can be lost very quickly, and old higher education powers cannot rest on their laurels as newer institutions, with strong financial backing and dynamic leadership, are challenging the old guard.
Messrs Welch and Branson devote much of their books to selling themselves as heroes, whereas Mr Broad's tendency to state the facts and move on often undersells how challenging a life he has led, and how hard won have been his triumphs.
I'm proud to say that these hard-won lessons have served to galvanize my resolve.
Thick, hard-won surfaces, also suggestive of van Gogh, are already crucial in these works.
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But analysts say the match-fixing allegations could call the city-state's hard-won reputation into question.
They built the United Nations so that a hard-won peace would not be lost.
America is loth to give ground on bananas and beef following its hard-won legal victories.
They have shown that even dumb birds tend to value hard-won rewards more than freebies.
And what of the hard-won fiscal discipline that has allowed the euro's birth in the first place?
You can hear the Chancellor now, explaining how damaging this might be for the UK's hard-won fiscal credibility.
But even these hard-won concessions from union retirees may quickly be overtaken by rapidly rising American medical costs.
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Worse, he says he wants to renegotiate the European Union's fiscal compact, a hard-won treaty on budgetary discipline.
For now Hughes is sticking with handshakes, and banking on a hard-won reputation.
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