A hard-fought primary.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

On this date came the hard-fought battle of Irish Bend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference

But for other people it's, you know, a hard-fought game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junot Diaz Discusses his 'Wondrous' Debut Novel] Reference

The prolonged and hard-fought attacks in Flanders by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919] Reference

The shape of an all-new basic law would likely be hard-fought, however.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Lobby Seeks New Turkish Constitution] Reference

At four o'clock in the afternoon of that hard-fought battle of Manassas.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

Those were hard-fought victories, and the opposition then is familiar now.    From Wordnik.com.  [A public plan will reduce costs and improve access] Reference

A decade after it purchased Quaker in a hard-fought multibillion-dollar deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [PepsiCo Aims to Stir Up Quaker Oatmeal Business] Reference

Gephardt has a scrappy foreign policy, worthy of a hard-fought primary season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diplomatic Diary: Where They Stand] Reference

Women leaders won a hard-fought battle to be heard at July's Kabul Conference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: While the World Scales Back its Afghanistan Ambitions, Afghan Women Push Forward] Reference

He learned to use the Stokes mortars with deadly effect on many a hard-fought line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Until now, the hard-fought contest between Obama and Clinton has been evenly split.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three-State Sweep] Reference

Rare in recent times, a long, hard-fought campaign is something to be excited about.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Beginning] Reference

The winner of the hard-fought race is all but certain to succeed Chairman Vincent C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brown and Orange compete for D.C. Council chairman] Reference

Chatter was all over the media for months, despite a hard-fought campaign for privacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea says 'I do'] Reference

It was this stedfastness of character that had brought him through many hard-fought battles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Hill House] Reference

And Beijing will be bending over backwards not to flub this hard-fought chance to be greatonce again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quest for Gold] Reference

The news brings relief to the ruling Labor Party government, which faces a hard-fought election Aug. 21.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Holds Rates Steady] Reference

At the same time, one wonders if these hard-fought rights are still meaningful for American workers today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amy B. Dean: Reviving Workers' Rights in a New Economy] Reference

Clinton won the Nevada caucuses, beating Obama 51-45 percent in a hard-fought and sometimes caustic contest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton's Wager Pays Off] Reference

In a succession of hard-fought battles the Fourth Army (Gen. S.r H.S. Rawlinson) had pushed the Germans back.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919] Reference

A time of grave crisis; upon the events of the next few minutes would hang the issue of a hard-fought battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

The new baseball field he will pitch on was built with hard-fought public funding from this working-class town.    From Wordnik.com.  [In China, mining for baseball diamonds] Reference

They bear the scars and contortions of many a hard-fought battle with the storms that often sweep the narrow glen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Yet the adversaries in both sides remain engaged in trench warfare, with every battle over a few hard-fought yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abortion’s New Battleground] Reference

Industries from aluminum to oil to banking are restructuring in a series of hard-fought, distinctly un-French mergers.    From Wordnik.com.  [While The Sun Shines] Reference

"This was a tough, hard-fought primary," McCain said at a victory party -- and he quickly looked to the fall campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Primary Results: Arizona, Florida, Alaska] Reference

His hard-fought bid to change legislation to give the police more time to question terror suspects went down in flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

It's often tough, it's usually intense, and it leads to a hard-fought, slow-won, and revolutionary victory over self-hatred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethan Nichtern: Radical Buddhism and the Paradox of Acceptance] Reference

The last thing he would do is pick a fight with a powerful interest group in the thick of a hard-fought re-election campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Bashes Israel] Reference

We got a bit panicky as our reservation was hard-fought and someone else was bound to take it if we didn't get there on time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lea Lane: Eating Blind] Reference

Finally, the hard-fought House vote to grant China permanent normal trade relations went over the top, ending at a decisive 237-197.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long March Begins] Reference

Linda Lingle (R), winning a hard-fought victory over former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann on the final primary day of the 2010 cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil Abercrombie wins Democratic gubernatorial nod in Hawaii] Reference

Civil-Rights EraMembership boomed to 540,000 during a decade of hard-fought legislative victories capped by the Civil Rights Act of 1968.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marching On] Reference

Three-time Tour de France winner Contador is skipping his home Tour, which he won in 2008, after a hard-fought victory in France in July.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vuelta a Espana preview: Contador’s absence leaves wide-open race] Reference