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

Nonetheless, Justice Breyer wrote, "the Little Rock story represents a hard-earned victory for the rule of law".

Harlequins completed a clean sweep in Pool Three with a hard-earned victory at rain-soaked Biarritz.

For a night, at least, the Yankees were able to enjoy a hard-earned victory, their sixth in 14 games since the All-Star break.

"Mike and several of the players were enjoying an evening out after he had led the team to a hard-earned victory over Argentina," said a team spokesman.

"I can never forget," he wrote to Rosecrans eight months later, "that you gave us a hard-earned victory, which, had there been a defeat instead, the nation could scarcely have lived over".

The Six Nations rugby tournament kicked off with Ireland getting a hard-earned victory over the reigning champion Wales, while England scored a home victory over Scotland and Italy beat France.

"It's a really hard-earned victory.

Ultimately, this hard-earned victory gave Van Gaal the chance to deliver a trophy from his tempestuous and generally underwhelming two-year reign so at least the irascible Dutchman will look back at this replay with a certain fondness as will a young man who is steadily building an impressive reputation.

It was far from Leinster's best display of the season but the hard-earned victory means they are virtually assured of a place in the quarter-finals.

After this hard-earned victory, however, they are not only top but have a game in hand on most of their rivals.

And all got their earliest taste of hard-earned victory along Van Cortlandt's rugged 2.5-mile high school course.