He had just overcome a drug addiction and was wearing a shirt which his mother had ironed.
By day three, I had just overcome the impulse to reach for my pocket during any "down" moment.
"We had just overcome a pretty substantial deficit, and I was concerned about, we had a protection issue last time that we were down there," Martz said.
Yet approval of the biggest election reform in a generation, by a vote to 60 to 40, had just overcome what seemed only six months ago to be impossible odds.
He had just overcome the bullous pemphigoid blisters hiding among the folds of his groin.
Hutton had just overcome Crohn's Disease, an inflammation of the intestines, before he found out he had leukemia.
At another stop, a young lady had just overcome a battle with cancer and was upset with her sister, who'd never bothered to visit during a long stay at the hospital, even though the two lived in the same city.
Which makes sense, I suppose, because, "Why couldn't she have just overcome her body's physiological reaction to trauma?" is about as reasonable a question as "Why didn't she wear a longer skirt?" or "Why didn't she try biting her attacker's genitals?" The only person to blame for a rape is the rapist.
It is a theme with a special resonance in Turkey, which has seen four elected governments pushed out by the military since 1960 and has just started to overcome taboos surrounding that history.
The twice-Mercury-nominated, Mobo-winning star has just shimmered on Overcome, a highlight of her second album, The Dreaming Room, released earlier this year.
