Sentence examples for gets overtaken from inspiring English sources

The question of what the facts are gets overtaken by the spectacle of a titanic struggle between company and hedge fund operator.

When you have worked as hard and as long as Izzo has, when you exist in two generations as he has, fatigue gets overtaken by ambition and hunger.

Bachir Lazhar (the Algerian writer and actor Fellag) is a refugee from Algiers, in his fifties, with a long, sad face, a dark goatee, and a sudden smile that gets overtaken by wintry drafts of melancholy.

The pace of construction is so swift that any status report these days gets overtaken rapidly by the arrival of new beams and columns, rebar and concrete, pipes and conduit.

"The way your life gets overtaken when you're a manager, it's very hard to deal with, and it's been a really good learning curve for me".

Friendly neighbours do not generally file genocide suits against one other, but more than two decades on from the violent collapse of Yugoslavia, rationality still occasionally gets overtaken by a wave of ill-feeling.

You may even get overtaken by a train that runs nearby.

At red lights, you get overtaken by clip-clopping horses pulling hansom cabs.

Often they found the script getting overtaken by events, or being reflected in headlines.

So how did our actions get overtaken by accusations of media control and "wrecklessness"?

I've got a mountain bike, but I need to get something faster – I'm getting overtaken by old ladies.