Eksempler på hard-earned

• With seniority, some women command the hard-earned position of relative authority within the family and would be less than eager to relinquish it.

• The per capita expenditure of the household may recover after a year or so, but survival is often achieved through dissaving and sales of hard-earned assets.

• This article challenges this view, stating that the current tendency towards ' agelessness ' is itself a form of ageism, depriving the old of one of their most hard-earned resources : their age.

• Why should air traffic control compete for hard-earned public cash with police officers, firefighters, the national health service and schools?

• They found that galloping inflation was eroding their often hard-earned and very precious nest eggs.

• This means that hard-earned taxpayers' money has, for years, been trickling away into mysterious channels.

• It will enshrine in law their right to keep a proportion of their hard-earned income and savings.

• We think that they have the right to know how much of their hard-earned income is being spent on petrol.