Hardwon

We've reached the moment when we must make sure that ordinary people exercise their hardwon right to cast votes and to get them counted. ❋ Paula Gordon (2010)

Gauguin's instinctual look is sophisticated, hardwon. ❋ Laura Cumming (2010)

Look, as long as I'm safe, I have what I need, and a little extra, and a hardwon safety net, why can't people just be happy that I have what I have? ❋ Unknown (2008)

And in an interview, she wasn't even aware of pending retrograde legislation in Virginia where she now lives with her longtime partner, Heather Poe which would rollback hardwon rights. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We are, consequently, deeply dismayed by the actions of the government of Zimbabwe which is riding roughshod over the hardwon democratic rights of the people of that country. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The prosecutor clearly fears the possibility that his hardwon victory would slip away; the tone of his letter has a hint of desperation. ❋ Ron Soodalter (2007)

Weld is the sort of easygoing ne'er do well loafer who could only prosper under the hardwon prosperity even protection of a Bill Clinton. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This hardwon knowledge based on a profound sense of loss is a gift that has expanded my capacity to love and to give in the many relationships with children, students, and other loved ones, which I cherish now more than ever. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

Further, she did what she had never yet done: she brought to bear on their intercourse all her own hardwon knowledge, and all her arts. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The audience was exhorted to hold firm to its hardwon agreements on pay, conditions, and redundancy; to stand up to their new proprietors and show them who really ran the newspapers; and not to concede so much as a matchstick of dead wood to new technology. ❋ McDermid, Val (1999)

Freedom is hardwon, but it is not the fruit of Murder. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)