Sentence examples for able to overtake from inspiring English sources

"But we just weren't able to overtake him".

With fresher tires, Hamlin was able to overtake him in the waning laps.

"You could criticise him, possibly, for not being able to overtake.

You want your person in Lycra to be able to overtake a kid going to school".

Democratizing good taste brought Apple Computer back from the verge, even if it hasn't been able to overtake Microsoft.

May represents the second consecutive month when CNN was able to overtake MSNBC among both those valued viewers and total viewers.

"It is highly unlikely he will be able to catch up and overtake Suplicy," Ibope's director, Marcia Cavallari, said of Mr. Maluf.

But she added, "Some females of small stature may be quicker to use force because their opponent is larger and able to physically overtake them".

Specifically, persons who arrive in the USA prior to 26 years of age have dramatically lower wage penalties than older arriving immigrants of the same cohort and ancestral group and are the only black immigrants able to catch up with and overtake native-born non-Hispanic black males workers but not native-born Hispanic black male workers or same-group second-generation black male immigrants.

Unless we are able to overcome serious legal and policy obstacles to private and foreign investment in such areas, we are unlikely to even maintain the current growth rate over the long term, let alone overtake China.

Mr. Romney's campaign has maintained that Mr. Santorum will not be able to accumulate enough delegates to overtake Mr. Romney on the way to the 1,144 needed for the nomination.