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I consider that the local education authority is using its hard-earned and hard-fought for financial resources in an extremely reprehensible way.
I also hear some anxieties that sometimes there is over much pressure to achieve measurable outcomes which might damage the hard-earned relationships of trust.
We should not be wasting hard-earned taxpayers' money on a fourth satellite system that offers no advantage over the others.
These companies realised much of their hard-earned and preciously conserved reserves to tide them over the winter period until better days came.
The victims have been taken from us at a moment of joyous homecoming after a hard-earned holiday.
That would make us feel more confident that our constituents' hard-earned cash was being well spent.
If legislation forces us to hand over hard-earned cash to the incompetent, there is little incentive for anyone to save.
We think that they have the right to know how much of their hard-earned income is being spent on petrol.
