Champney Googe was startled from his hard-won calm. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Even this hard-won consensus is not entirely secure. From Wordnik.com. [Mexican Stand Off] Reference
Goodbye Gordon Gekko is full advice and hard-won wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Martin: Goodbye Gordon Gekko] Reference
The silver lining to these hard-won fights is visibility. From Wordnik.com. [Frank J Miles: Come Out for Yourself - Stay Out for Others] Reference
The victory was fleeting -- but it was as sweet as it was hard-won. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Of The Hour] Reference
They're qualities of character and hard-won values and matters of taste. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Moore: Redefining Education: Cultivating the Soul] Reference
The advice I give them -- and my daughter -- is hard-won from my own experience. From Wordnik.com. [Hard-Won Workplace Advice For My Daughter] Reference
His messages to Americans, probably his last, had the coherence of hard-won wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching In The Rain] Reference
Nor can small investors afford to turn their hard-won stock portfolios into memory books. From Wordnik.com. [Ring Out The Old, Ring In The New] Reference
He talked, however, with a hard-won simplicity that allowed him to say large things quietly. From Wordnik.com. [The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago] Reference
The day Wexler finally boarded Air Force One, he was determined to savor the hard-won moment. From Wordnik.com. [West Wing Story: The Making Of 'Air Force One'] Reference
At its own unhurried pace, Rumer's music opens up to disclose a lifetime of hard-won experience. From Wordnik.com. [Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself'] Reference
"Nixon" represents his emotional detente, a hard-won effort to discover compassion for the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference
It was a hard-won victory for Mack, who had spent more than a decade pursuing her sister's killers. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Of Impunity] Reference
In it the couple reasserts their love after more than 40 years of complication and hard-won comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Wedding Day Blues: Finding the Perfect Mix CD] Reference
And as father and son struggle toward a hard-won reconciliation, "Big Fish" reveals its beating heart. From Wordnik.com. [Reeling In A 'Fish'] Reference
Speaking straight from the heart, cartoonist Ed Power has some hard-won words of advice for comics fans. From Wordnik.com. [FAREWELL: His dream shot down, 'MY CAGE' cartoonist has a word for comics fans] Reference
And it is a freedom that, even here in a City that is rooted in Dutch tolerance, was hard-won over many years. From Wordnik.com. [Bloomberg on Mosque Vote] Reference
I was terrified that my hard-won relationship with the chimpanzees would be compromised by the arrival of a stranger. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey Through the Jungle] Reference
His character was forged by hard-won struggles with drink and more shadowy demons, and he has been redeemed by faith. From Wordnik.com. [Bush in the Bubble] Reference
Every word he utters is hard-won, but his battle got a lot easier a few months ago when he received a cochlear implant. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun Has Finally Come Out for Alex] Reference
On the more recent day, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin honored our nation's men and women in arms and God-given, hard-won freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Newell: Honoring Martin Luther King: Reflections on the 'Restoring Honor Rally'] Reference
What it amounts to is that America has strayed too far from the ancient hard-won wisdom of treating flood plains with respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
As he does so, it will help Iraqis achieve a brighter future and make the U.S. effort in Iraq a hard-won success for all Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Fought and What We Achieved] Reference
And, as Humphrey knows more painfully still, Presidents have a way of smothering a Vice President's hard-won political identity. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy Kennedy’s Decision] Reference
The CLCs help prevent insurgents from retaking hard-won terrain and also serve as a recruitment pool for the Iraqi army and police. From Wordnik.com. [Targets of Terror] Reference
But those residents know all too well that their hard-won gains could prove to be fleeting, given the howling winds of economic distress at the door. From Wordnik.com. [Straight Into Compton] Reference
The Burmese regime is so arrogant — and inept — that it doesn't expect citizens to rebel even when they watch their hard-won savings disappear overnight. From Wordnik.com. [It's the Oil and Gas, Stupid] Reference
The songs are built on intricate wordplays and hard-won insights; even when she's really ticked off she'll seldom raise her voice above a threatening whisper. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge Of The Mellow] Reference
At the same time, compelling the nation's community colleges to focus almost exclusively on remediation would leave them shorn of their hard-won respectability. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save 25 Percent on College Tuition] Reference
This means Israel must hand over, once and for all, hard-won land that Jews have claimed since ancient times, giving the Palestinians a quasi-state in its midst. From Wordnik.com. [A Battle Of Wills] Reference
"But if the public gets the idea we are trying to turn back the clock on the valid regulations," Rosenberg says, hard-won corporate credibility could be squandered. From Wordnik.com. [Muddying The Waters] Reference
Before 9-11, long-suffering citizens throughout Southeast Asia voiced deep concern about security forces acting with impunity and infringing on hard-won civil liberties. From Wordnik.com. [Liberty In The Balance] Reference
Who could blame Clinton last week when, just 24 hours before landing in Kiev, he called Kravchuk from Air Force One to make sure the hard-won treaty was still "on track"?. From Wordnik.com. [Danger, If The Ukraine Deal Doesn't Stick] Reference
This will apply with redoubled force to any initiative that asks the United States to trade its hard-won scientific preeminence against its private and unofficial pieties. From Wordnik.com. [The Texas-Size Debate Over Teaching Evolution] Reference
One wore a T shirt bearing the English word PEACE. Taken alone, last week's bombing would not have the power to undo the hard-won Palestinian-Israeli peace accord reached at Wye. From Wordnik.com. [Death By A Thousand Cuts] Reference
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