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

It was a hard-learned lesson.

It seems to have been, they say, a hard-learned lesson in humility.

"What is going to happen to the threat when we line up our trucks to leave and start moving out of the country?" Eight years in Iraq has taught the United States military a hard-learned lesson, that American forces cannot effectively secure large areas without the help of the local people.

"We have had a hard-learned lesson," says Mr Borg.

For Califf, 65, it is a hard-learned lesson.

Whether it's been working in national security or developing new products, I've found it's a hard-learned lesson.

When I was in high school, my mother refused to allow me to learn to type, because the hard-learned lesson of her own life warned that typing would limit me to the secretarial pool.

Nuanced thinking, and the mixed psychological messages that history, philosophy, and real life bring, are a tough sell these days -- another hard-learned lesson.

The main takeaways from this hard-learned lesson was that there are a few things every person can do to help them get flawless skin, if indeed they're bothered in the first place.

The hard-learned lesson: Defense concepts must consider social, economic and historical factors that constitute the human dimension of war.

The other hard-learned lesson, early on, was that these things are invariably more complicated and vexing than you first assume.