That hard-won right will be safe with me as your President.

Their hard-won rights have yet to be enshrined into law, meaning they could be rescinded at short notice.

"We cannot let tragedy lay waste to the most rare and hard-won human right in history."

American women who value our hard-won rights would be wise to use vigilance with the American religious right.

"It deprived us of our hard-won right to rule ourselves," he said.

The hard-won right of collective bargaining provides an orderly mechanism to negotiate contracts and resolve grievances.

They emphasize they would never give up the hard-won right to choose where, and with whom to live.

Union leaders view key elements of the program as schemes to chip away at hard-won rights and wages.

Social protection consists of a set of hard-won social rights which progressively evolve.

What really lies at the heart of the crisis is the protesters' refusal to relinquish these basic, hard-won rights.