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How to use the word hard-fought in a Sentence?

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SEMA applauds NHTSA’s final rule allowing companies to market classic-themed cars, regulatory barriers have previously prevented small automakers from producing heritage cars that are coveted by consumers. The roadblocks have been eliminated. This is a hard-fought victory for enthusiasts, small volume manufacturers, their suppliers, and all the men and women who will be hired to fill new jobs created by this law.

Daniel Ingber

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's at stake is not simply, as important as it is, Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence but very basic principles that have, in a hard-fought way after two World Wars and a Cold War, undergirded security, peace and prosperity for countries around the world -- principles like one country can't simply change the borders of another by force ; principles like one country can't simply dictate to another its choices, its policies, with who it will associate ; principles like one country can't exert a sphere of influence to subjugate its neighbors to its will, if we allow those principles to be challenged with impunity, even if it's half a world away in Europe, that will have an impact here as well.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Playing against that team, they’ve been playing really well. We knew it would be a hard-fought battle, it was a fun game. I think everybody was engaged. Everybody on the bench was lively.

Craig Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Those two games were extremely hard-fought, close games in both circumstances, and I would expect the same in this game, i don’t know that there’s anything that I can really take from that (2011) experience that’s going to have any effect or impact on this one.

Nick Saban

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office delivered a huge win for the people of St. Louis County and obtained a temporary restraining order, halting the enforcement of the mask mandate, this is an important, hard-fought victory, but our fight against unreasonable and unconstitutional government overreach continues.

Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have worked for two decades alongside our allies to advance the rights of not just women and girls, but other ethnic minorities in Afghanistan. And we can't let those two decades of hard work be ignored in peace talks. We owe it to the women and girls to ensure that their hard-fought rights are preserved, sadly, I believe an arbitrary deadline for... our withdrawal of forces in Afghanistan risks those efforts.

Jeanne Shaheen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm honored to have won this race, it was a hard-fought-campaign and I thank Anthony Brindisi for his service.

Claudia Tenney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I want to congratulate Amy Kennedy and the Amy Kennedy family for winning the Democratic primary and becoming Joe Biden for the 2nd District of New Jersey, as we all know, this was a tough, hard-fought race, but we all know -- let me be clear -- that is now behind us.

Callahan Harrison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This has been a hard-fought four year battle.

David Ramsden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's no question that ultimately we need to establish a single-payer system, but there has to be a role for those hard, hard-fought-for, high-quality plans that we've negotiated, you can't ask the American worker, who sacrificed wages and everything, to simply say: 'Okay, I'll accept this plan here,'.

Richard Trumka

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the end, the snake finally lost the battle when the jaws of the gator made a direct hit down the length of his body. It was a hard fought battle.

Linda Waring

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Tonight, President Trump made the decision to recognize that that hard-fought real estate, that important place, is proper to be a sovereign part of the state of Israel. President Trump made a bold decision to recognize that, an important decision for the people of Israel. It will truly be historic, and the people of Israel should know that the battles they fought, the lives that they lost on that very ground, were worthy and meaningful and important for all time.

Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I just called Kyrsten Sinema and congratulated Kyrsten Sinema on becoming Arizona's first female senator after a hard-fought battle. I wish Kyrsten Sinema all success as Kyrsten Sinema represents Arizona in the Senate.

Martha McSally

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win, the people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This hard-fought victory means safer water for Flint. For the first time, there will be an enforceable commitment to get the lead pipes out of the ground, the people of Flint are owed at least this much.

Dimple Chaudhary

Found on CNN
7 years ago

At the end of a campaign that is certainly hard fought, there are going to be a lot of charges and all kinds of misrepresentations.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We take nothing for granted, and some of the polls I've been seeing are completely inaccurate, i think this is going to be a very hard fought race in the next week, we are going to be holding as many rallies, and meeting as many people as we can ... We really think we can win.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's only one of 82, but we knew what we came here to do, and that was to take care of business, we knew it would be a hard fought game in this arena, and we were locked in. They made a run in the third quarter, but we came back in the fourth quarter and overtime.

Kyrie Irving

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was an unbelievable character to play, but there was a cause to this, his civil liberties were at risk and a black mark in our country's history is that they were overwriting those hard fought freedoms.

Bryan Cranston

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's particularly true of presidential candidates, most of whom must devote two years of their lives to hard-fought campaigns that involve staggering personal and financial sacrifices, all in an effort to serve their country. And then there's Trump.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It has been a hard fought and miraculous journey since my stroke two years ago. I have gained a greater understanding of God's grace and how quickly events can change us. those letters brought me through the darkest of days.

Lee Brice

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A lot of people felt that because of the hard fought election and the nature of the presidential contest that they would never come together and that Afghanistan would literally split wide open as a result, close up that is not what I saw.

John Kerry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

These settlements with these defendants have been hard fought, and it is finally bringing closure in one of the last vestiges of this litigation.

Paul Napoli

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's no getting around that this was an incredibly close and hard-fought race. After what's been a long campaign season, it's time to come together and heal our community.

Martha McSally

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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