The phrase "a time overcome" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context discussing overcoming challenges or difficulties over a period, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "After a long journey, we finally reached a time overcome by our struggles and triumphs."
Alternatives: "a time of triumph" or "an era of victory".
"But, as the Apollo astronauts learned, you can have a devil of a time overcoming even a small amount of dust".
Each chapter is written as a rich mini-biography of a golfer, focusing on a troubling time overcome.
And Jason Kidd, the candidate of the moment, who has led the New Jersey Nets into the N.B.A. championship, oozes quiet charisma, but will have a hard time overcoming a spouse abuse charge in his past.
If a business has a bad reputation with vendors, a prospective new owner may have a hard time overcoming the poor decisions of the previous owner.
Poor pandering may already have produced the first casualty of the 2012 campaign: Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour, whose tone deaf comments to the conservative Weekly Standard -- including that racism in his home state during the '60s "wasn't that bad" -- provoked a firestorm he'll have a hard time overcoming.
Having a hard time overcoming the humiliation and hurt of a lifetime, in ensuing decades of great hardship, Eckford found scant comfort in Ms. Bryan Massery's gesture.
Club M terran?is advertising discounts on holidays to Greece, Portugal and other European destinations, a marketing strategy that, it turns out, may go a long way toward explaining why Europe is likely to have a hard time overcoming its current economic problems.
And her version is full of plain old folks spending a lot of time overcoming a great deal, including a government that she posits usually intends to do them harm.
Even if they did, the marketplaces would have had a difficult time overcoming another hurdle.
