Sentence examples similar to hard won respectability from inspiring English sources

Generations later, after decades of cleansing philanthropy on an enormous scale, the family's hard-won respectability would be challenged again.

The reprieve was hard won.

The lessons were hard won.

"He tried hard, ran hard, won hard.

Now, says Jiri Stejskal of the American Translators Associationn, it has won respectability.Technological change has not brought consolidation to a fragmented industry, however.

The English was hard won, he said.

It was a valuable lesson, hard won.

It was a victory hard won.

It was an identity hard won.

But such victories are hard won.

These successes were hard won.