Celtic's record as the team to have lifted the trophy most often in the history of the old competition seemed throughout the game to be mired in the past, their attempts at overcoming the side from the Highlands sluggish, unimaginative and unlikely to scare anyone except their own supporters.
The absurd, then, denominates both the most fundamental state of the world and the absurdity of human attempts at overcoming this basic fact.
The Greek debt crisis is the biggest challenge since those Yugoslav secessions to Europe's attempt at overcoming its geographical and historical divisions.
One of them, Khalid Muhammad, a former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, tried to get onlookers in the crowd -- members of the media easily outnumbered the 200 spectators -- to join in their attempts to overcome police and get at the Klan members.
At the outset, Scotty attempts to overcome his vertigo through moderate and incremental steps, and Midge tells him that, according to a doctor, the vertigo will be cured only by a comparably great shock (one comparable to Scotty's having narrowly escaped death and having seen his colleague fall and die).
The voices of those such as Thomas Peters, who left written testimony of the hardships they endured and of their determined attempts to overcome them, are quoted at length, the directness of their sometimes pidgin rawness held up as a virtue rather than a shortcoming.
In the attempt to overcome, at least in part, some of the above mentioned problems, we devised an "intensive" Therapeutic Education Program (TEP), including only essential learning content and involving the active engagement of both families and their children, without clinically evident psychiatric troubles [ 19].
In our special report we look at the challenges facing today's young and jobless, and the attempts to overcome the problem.
The matter could be put to the test in the AT&T-Leap deal if a second bidder emerges and attempts to overcome these deal protections.
But it appeared from the breadth of the demonstration, and the strong presence of powerful unions, that the work of the conservative government will be arduous, both in its efforts at home and its attempt to overcome a hostility from abroad.
How, if at all, do the characters overcome or attempt to overcome aging?
