hard-fought Definition In English

Examples of hard-fought

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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