| The 8-6 win was hard-fought and Ford is under no illusions that his side might have to grind out another win today. |
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| That was a hard-fought victory that required constant involvement by the international community and lobbying to negotiate the Agreement. |
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| It tells the tale of a long march from the Nile to the Alps over three thousand hard-fought miles. |
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| The only other scores of a hard-fought, if unspectacular affair, arrived in the opening 13 minutes of the second half. |
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| Please join us tomorrow in our face-off, a hard-fought battle over the security and reliability of electronic voting. |
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| It was a close, hard-fought game through two quarters with the Ravens taking a 6-3 lead into halftime. |
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| The war against the tabloids, or red tops, is hard-fought, particularly as these papers can flood the market with very cheap copies. |
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| In what was a hard-fought encounter, the Dubliners played an uncompromising game under both boards. |
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| He spoke at length and in detail to the engineers following his hard-fought seventh place at Sepang. |
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| After having the better of two hard-fought draws he won game three to take the overnight lead. |
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| Mwamba who was unseeded sailed to the semi-finals via a hard-fought 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 scoreline. |
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| It represents a delicate and hard-fought compromise, which would not have been achievable only a couple of years ago. |
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| But that right does not extend to forcing their views upon others and they should respect the hard-fought freedoms we have in this country. |
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| After a long, hard-fought battle, 32 million more Americans will have access to good, quality health care. |
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| What would normally have been a hard-fought contest anyway got completely out of hand under the prevailing circumstances. |
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| Helping to rescue vulnerable populations from emergencies is essential if hard-fought security gains and development progress are to be maintained. |
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| The Telekurs Group will meet this goal by providing high quality at low cost, increase its competitiveness within the increasingly hard-fought international financial markets. |
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| The joining of IRL should allow synergies to be exploited more effectively and investments to be optimised in order to further strengthen its market position in the hard-fought printing market. |
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| Miami Heat star Chris Bosh admits he loves nothing more than engaging in a fierce, hard-fought battle on the blacktop. |
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| The Winnipeg Falcons won a hard-fought battle to represent Canada at the first Olympic hockey tournament in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920. Winning the tournament, the Winnipeg Falcons became hockey's first world champions. |
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| The product of a hard-fought battle by a very broad coalition, the Regroupement pour un régime québécois d'assurance parentale, this plan is much more inclusive and generous than the federal scheme. |
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| The second half was hard-fought but inconclusive. |
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| Indeed the very conditions in which they work are the fruit of countless hours of negotiation, punctuated by just as many hard-fought battles by European trade unions and their members. |
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| That verbal expression of determination had the desired effect too, for after a nervous wait, the Europeans finally broke down a resolute Thai back line with two late goals to earn a hard-fought 2-1 victory. |
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| Liverpool resisted a second-half fightback from Wolves to secure a hard-fought victory and end a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats. |
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| Vic Dancer was a game winner of the other mares bumper and her hard-fought defeat of Romanic Fashion gave trainer Moses McCabe his first winner for two long years. |
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