Examples of hard-fought

• He stays as attentive to their hard-fought differences and polemics as to linkages and areas of mutual cooperation.

• As such, advocacy of self-help is seen as problematic and rejected for fear that it might produce a rolling-back of the welfare state and/or the loss of hard-fought-for rights.

• This was a hard-fought battle in the past and its echoes are sometimes heard from time to time.

• I consider that the local education authority is using its hard-earned and hard-fought for financial resources in an extremely reprehensible way.

• It was a hard-fought negotiation and that was the outcome.

• It is sad that he should have been proved right after his long and hard-fought opposition.

• We have had further hard-fought campaigns in the statistics war.

• This campaign has been hard-fought both for and by those people.

• These are very hard-fought competitions and many factors have to be borne in mind.

• It would surrender our hard-fought social chapter opt-out and any permanent opt-outs.

• I have never come across so many hard-fought battles, whatever the area of disability, as over the forms of words that are used.

• It is that hard-fought-for professional standing that is at the heart of the present dispute, not an avaricious love of money.

• It represents a delicate and hard-fought compromise, which would not have been achievable only a couple of years ago.

• Nevertheless, it was a hard-run, hard-fought compromise between all the interests that looked towards the land through different spectacles seeking different things from the land.

• The best we could hope for was that neither side would reject this hard-fought-for resolution out of hand.