After all, memories of the Dominion War had not yet faded to the point where they could no longer impart the hard-won lessons that accompanied them.

And yet Tsh't felt a hard-won lesson was reinforced.

A hard-won lesson of Western history is that genuine democratic self-rule begins at the hearth of the monogamous family.

But it was a hard-won lesson.

The next logical source of assistance would be Ukraine herself, rife with hard-won lessons born out of desperation.

Clinton seems to be ignoring one of the hard-won lessons of liberalism's collapse, which is that programs to help poor workers should actually be restricted to workers.

"I've learned some very hard-won lessons," he said in a telephone interview yesterday.

They kept walking and reviewing hard-won lessons.

That was a hard-won lesson.

For once I'm trying to share some of my hard-won lessons with you without shouting.