Sentence examples for hard-won improvements from inspiring English sources

The hard-won improvements in conditions would be ratcheted back half a decade to their previous level of harshness.

We need to ensure that, in the light of the current financial pressures, these hard-won improvements are not undone".

At the same time, the disclosure appeared calibrated to protect hard-won improvements in the "reset" of relations between the two countries.

Others worry that the hard-won improvements in Iraq's security will be lost: al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch is still active, they note, and could even use Iraq as a base from which to launch attacks farther afield.But others say that, once the Americans have left, Iran-backed groups will lose their appeal and clout.

And one of the first things to be lost would undoubtedly be the hard-won improvements in the lives of women.

A second reason to value even small, hard-won improvements in likelihood score is that some problems, including ditrysian phylogeny, may be difficult enough to resist strong resolution by any one data source for a long time to come.

As the director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre, Daniel Webb, summarised for VICE, "a transition to an open centre would be an important and hard-won improvement, but letting people go for a walk does not resolve the fundamental problems caused by indefinitely warehousing them on a tiny remote island".

The breakthrough, if there was one, came in realizing that, thanks to many hard-won incremental improvements in efficiency, its technology was approaching competitiveness with terrestrial solar-energy products, especially in situations where a smaller form factor was desirable.

Some hard won improvements have even gone into reverse, he says, with UKBA now back-tracking on an earlier commitment that women would have one dedicated case-worker.

Last week's advance was hard-won.

The model is an improvement on past efforts because it incorporates hard-won findings from previous studies about how the visual system works, says Brian Wandell, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.