Hard-won Sentence Examples

For hard won rights once lost, may never be regained.

By the end of July, after the hard-won victory of Milazzo, the whole island, with the exception of the citadel of Messina and a few unimportant ports, was in his hands.

After the hard-won victory over Mosailima, Omar, fearing that the sayings of the prophet would be entirely forgotten when those who had listened to them had all been removed by death, induced Abu-Bekr to see to their preservation in a written form.

The situation was critical, for the hard-won domains of the house of Capet seemed likely to fall to pieces during a minority.

In 203 he was proconsul in Upper Italy, where, in conjunction with the praetor P. Quintilius Varus, he gained a hard-won victory over Mago, Hannibal's brother, in Insubrian territory, and obliged him to leave Italy.

The four days' fight (11th-14th of June 1666) ended in a hard-won victory by de Ruyter over Monk, but later in this year (August 3rd) de Ruyter was beaten by Ayscue and forced to take refuge in the Dutch harbours.

History has agreed to adopt this date as the beginning of the British empire in the East; but the immediate results of the victory were comparatively small, and several more hard-won fights were fought before even the Bengalis would admit the superiority of the British arms. For the moment, however, all opposition was at an end.

Most of the island had now been evacuated by the Bourbonists, but Messina and a few other points still held out, and when the Garibaldians advanced eastward they encountered a force of 4000 of the enemy under Colonel Bosco at Milazzo; on the 20th of July a desperate battle took place resulting in a hard-won Garibaldian victory.

But he never splurges - the control comes from his hard-won mastery of forms.

It is a new won and hard won stability which Britain must not take for granted.

Because if this brash young upstart is to be believed, acquiring these hard-won skills is now an easy matter.

Despite the fact that entry into force took longer than expected, the hard won Treaty has performed ably in its infancy.

But it is just to remember that without the stern discipline of the law the community of the second temple could hardly have escaped dissolution, and that Judaism alone preserved for Christianity the hard-won achievements of the prophets.3 4.

In the south, in spite of the hard-won victory of Albuera, the English attack on Badajoz had to be given up. The same misfortune attended a fresh stroke against Ciudad Rodrigo, and at the end of a campaign in which he had used all his skill and care to compensate for inferior numbers, he withdrew behind the Coa.

No directory owner has the divine right to siphon off Google 's hard won search customers.

They are nothing but an excuse to erode our democratic rights and hard won liberties.

The danger here is that the hard won stability built up over recent years is taken for granted.

There is something about gathering wood, splitting it, stacking it just right and watching that first spark catch into a hard-won flame.

It's short (okay, very short), but perfect for the individual who doesn't mind showing off a hard-won, toned, physique.

It's not easy achieving a fine physique, and after all those long hours at the gym, it's quite nice to show up in swimwear that flatters your hard-won form.

Aside from all the attention you'll receive and the thrill of seeing a hard-won body clad in skimpy, almost non-existent material, there are also a ton of fabrics and styles to choose from.

Lucky for the world, Veronique de la Cruz didn't rest on her hard-won laurels, but instead, took the determination and beautiful spirit the country of France so aptly rewarded, and channeled it into the Aquarella swimwear collection.

If you are fit and take pride in your hard-won physique, this might be your best bet.

Many websites such as Dreambox include strategies to help prevent the "summer slide" when kids may lose some of their hard-won skills.