The market timers, as a group, have a hard-won reputation as poor investors.

A town with a racially integrated school system, it has a hard-won reputation for diversity and tolerance.

Harley executives say they are limiting production increases to preserve the company's hard-won reputation for quality.

He has a proud, hard-won reputation as an independent thinker and artist to protect for his eventual return to the literary life.

The pirates had sullied humanity's hard-won reputation for honesty.

The hard-won reputation of the clan was that they made merciless and deadly enemies.

We have been selling the family silver - which includes hard-won reputation - all my life for pressing reasons of deepening poverty.

Many senior journalists say the group could destroy its hard-won reputation for integrity by taking a position without knowing all the facts.

But the worrier says he will also make sure that Goldman's hard-won reputation stays intact.

I have a hard-won reputation as a cold-blooded assassin and a desperate warrior.