Sentence examples for hard-won skill from inspiring English sources

There can be no denying, either, that the hard-won skill that has won him 48 fights has also made him the most powerful individual in boxing and, unless Andre Berto defies all form and logic, Mayweather will reaffirm that status and equal Marciano's famous record late on the Saturday evening of 12 September.

- and then works it through with patience, charisma and hard-won skill.

You feed in cash, and you get repeatedly killed until your hard-won skill finally leads to victory.

My solution to dealing with the stigma surrounding bipolar disorder, for example, has come from the application of a hard-won skill earned from experience as a perpetual minority: an acute aptitude for adaptation.

Steyn, along with the 1964 Newsweek writer and many other cultural reactionaries - William F. Buckley wrote at the time that The Beatles "are not just awful, they are godawful" (wonder if he ever repented of this, much as he repented of his anti-Civil Rights stance?) - simply can't hear the genius, the innovation, the hard-won skill of The Beatles.

Obviously the professionals bring tradition, deep experience and hard-won skills to their work.

Some newly trained villagers will have no medicine, vitamins or equipment to practise their hard-won skills.

As a sophisticated medium of communication, it requires mastery of the hard-won skills of reading and writing.

Despite its hardships, it is a rich and authentic life -- stocked with the wisdom, hard-won skills and cultural possessions of a people.

Indeed, these have been really bad years for recent college graduates, who all too often can't find anyone willing to make use of their hard-won skills that were expensive to attain.

Yes, and the price of cake may have fallen relative to bread, but that is slim consolation to college graduates who face weak demand for their hard-won skills either as workers or entrepreneurs.