Helton said he was disappointed that the validity of a hard-earned victory was taken away from a driver, his crew chief and his team.

That is a hard-earned victory for U.S. diplomats who are trying to persuade the North to give up any ambition to build bombs.

And Chicago would escape with a hard-earned victory.

"Mike and several of the players were enjoying an evening out after he had led the team to a hard-earned victory over Argentina," the spokesman said.

The whole family was on the 18th green to celebrate her hard-earned victory at the 2008 Corning Classic.

It was a hard-earned victory that brought cheers, not boos, from the partisans at Madison Square Garden.

She went on, "This was a hard-earned victory; it was not a miracle."

This poem demonstrates that the single letter can also stand for a hard-earned artistic victory.

And after 81 games and 59 hard-earned victories, the Knicks finally allowed themselves a moment of satisfaction.

The hard-earned victory might have cost the Mets everything they had left.