The hard-won success that followed is not nearly as mysterious to him: it was worked for; it was earned.

Lorraine Gariboldi, executive director of the Deer Park center, counts Ms. Webb's case as a hard-won success.

Given the unexpected, hard-won success of Jesse Jackson's 1988 Presidential campaign, the Third American Revolution may well be on its way.

Jimmy's appreciation of hard-won success grew out of his own experience with failure.

After every hard-won success, Kamil was asked to do another I 19* "impossible" assignment.

Along with other humane groups, we have had some hard-won success on both fronts.

However, at this crisis the initiative of a subordinate general, the famous military writer Feuquières, converted the hard-won local success into a brilliant victory.

And what unsettled him now was not just the hard-won success here, but their strange attitude toward it.

The Pichlers' hard-won success has come in part from their unusually sophisticated approach to sheep farming, bringing big-city marketing skills to a down-home endeavor.

It has been suggested that Mr. Soderbergh, after all his hard-won success, is biting the hand that feeds him.