"My maturity and hard-won experience in difficult environments, that's something that the average college guy doesn't have."

Through hard-won experience, I've come to see that there are three key steps.

Mercy expects him to share his hard-won experience in the courses he is taking, like sociology of violence and crisis management.

But from the evidence of this book this hard-won experience has not necessarily generated wisdom.

It takes 300 years of hard-won experience to do it so the Chinese must have been mystified by what was going on.

Like them, she dived into the fire and has only recently emerged fortified with the strength that often comes out of hard-won personal experience.

You can spend days chasing frogs," she said, in a voice that seemed to come out of hard-won experience.

He took her hand and began to pull her along, showing off his hard-won experience with low gee.

"He brings that hard-won experience to the High Court, and America will be the better for it."

And Sony has hard-won experience with the business model it is counting on for success in the software world.