The phrase "an overcoming" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used in contexts discussing a process of overcoming challenges or obstacles, but it is more often expressed differently.
Example: "The journey was filled with an overcoming of many personal fears and doubts."
Alternatives: "a triumph" or "a victory over".
This pledge signals an overcoming of political inertia that will mobilize much needed human and financial resources.
Each one will be honored with an Overcoming the Odds Awards, which will be presented on May 16th at an awards dinner in Tarrytown NY.
An "Overcoming Apathy" session will concern ways to stir interest for building issues and projects.
And this is useful, because I'm beginning to understand that real intimacy demands an overcoming of fear and awkwardness; it requires an increased level of trust and confidence.
More often, the working definition here is of secularism as a historical force ultimately triumphant and victorious: a vision of the future as an overcoming of religion.
A German official who had encountered Levi in the camp laboratory found in "If This Is a Man" an "overcoming of Judaism, a fulfillment of the Christian precept to love one's enemies, and a testimony of faith in Man".
"I'm just extremely grateful and thankful," said an overcome Minogue.
After all, overcoming a habit doesn't seem as triumphant as overcoming a disease.
A critical stance toward a unilateral globalization of Western modernity, a stance which at the same time accepts in part its unavoidability and in some respects even affirms its necessity, gave rise to the idea of "overcoming modernity"—an overcoming that would take place not by retreating from Western modernity, but by going through and beyond it.
In this study we report a device overcoming these limitations.
Be an "overcomer"... overcome the odds.
