Sentence examples for overcame on from inspiring English sources

Yet, when one kid who has overcome everything, one kid who was doubted by the very player he overcame on Sunday, decides to emphatically claim he is the best (by the way: he is), this is what upsets us?

A Union force of 15,000 men and seven gunboats traveled along the Tennessee to Fort Henry, whose meagre defenses they overcame on February 6.

This article, or excerpts from it, on Lex Gillette, a blind long-jumper in the Paralympics (which takes place immediately after the Olympics, for athletes with a physical disability), can also be used in this lesson, as can many of the other inspiring stories of athletes and the challenges they overcame on their way to the Games.

Overcoming on-the-field adversity, setbacks and injuries?

In some ways the task before him, as a shy professorial church insider, was perhaps too great to overcome on one trip.

It overcomes on the one hand the intrinsic disadvantages of rules of thumb which are usually based only on simple reaction mechanisms to select a particular reactor type.

Cuthbert overcame the on-air gaffe to become TSN's authoritative voice for the Canadian Football League and the N.H.L.

Her singing of They Were Overcome on this album is one of the loveliest things I know.

Similarly, Slovenia has one goal to overcome on its home soil against Russia.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have become a major threat and one of the hardest problems to overcome on the Internet.

These affinities are not obstacles to be overcome on the road to the good society; they are one of its foundation stones.