"overcame difficulties" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in any situation where someone has faced some sort of struggle and managed to overcome it. For example: "Natalie worked hard and eventually overcame all the difficulties she faced in her job search."
As recently as this spring, executives in Detroit forecast that auto sales would rebound in the second half of 2008, as consumers spent their federal rebate checks and overcame difficulties in the housing market.
This approach overcame difficulties in deciphering the particular relevance of genes known to be induced by several stimuli or genes whose expression leads to many possible cellular phenotypes.
So in selecting among candidates, focus on exactly how they achieved the accomplishments they tout and how they overcame difficulties along the way.
When we study the great ones' lives, we learn how they overcame difficulties and failure, and how they weren't afraid to keep trying.
I hope and expect that our grandchildren's generation will look at us not as a generation of fear and failure but as one that stayed optimistic and overcame difficulty.
Apple Computer overcame supply difficulties to post second-quarter earnings exceeding analysts' expectations, indicating the company's flashy new iMac home computer was being well received.
As shown below, such difficulties can be overcame by the introduction of slack variables and a cost index, enabling a grading of the different candidate flux vectors as more or less "possible".
These helped in predicting many of the difficulties that might need to be overcame during construction.
Normally I would say that the most important thing for a coach is that he [overcame] difficulties when he was young.
They overcame fourth-quarter deficits against Dallas, Minnesota and Seattle.
