Sentence examples for a hard-earned lesson from inspiring English sources

A New Jersey native, racehorse owner and sometime habitué of Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course, Parcells fell back on a hard-earned lesson from the racetrack.

(Employment thresholds invite end-runs — sometimes at the cost of part-time workers. There's a hard-earned lesson). In 2007, a compromise extended the ordinance's reach to all businesses within the city and tied the raises to the West Region Consumer Price Index rather than larger, fixed increases.

There is a bright side to Facebook's slide: It was a hard-earned lesson for the company's typically tight-lipped and evasive co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

A hard-earned lesson from the study of gene regulation is that the mechanisms seem to be different in different experimental systems.

AFTER last week's blackout, and with it the hard-earned lesson of being prepared for an emergency, you are now probably adequately stocked up with such basics as flashlights, AA bateries and bottled water.

And that's leaving aside the hard-earned lesson that the border between the uncontrollable region of north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan exists largely in our imaginations.

The hard-earned lesson of frigid Scandinavian winters is that there's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothes that all you really need to get through difficult times is shelter and sustenance, kith and kin.

Some are simply meant to teach us about ourselves and we don't learn that hard-earned lesson until they're over.

Instead, the producers chose to impart practical lessons of preparedness (store water in every room, and have earthquake kits in your home and car), as well as emphasize a few hard-earned lessons of human nature in the event of a disaster.

This is my story about the connection between hair and self-image — including a few hard-earned lessons I learned along the way.

And in getting to this place I've also become the keeper of a hard-earned Christmas lesson, a gift, really, that I hope to pass on to my children: Allow yourself to want things, no matter the risk of disappointment.