Despite the horror stories, my exhilaration at first overcame fear.
Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire overcame spasms of strife and returned to democratic rule.
But the spectre of a civil war, pitting the historically dominant Sunni minority against the newly enfranchised Shia majority, is now looming, most alarmingly.In the early morning of February 22nd, saboteurs overcame guards at the Askariya shrine at Samarra, north of Baghdad, an important site of Shia pilgrimage.
Fremantle overcame a late scare to beat Sydney by 14 points in their Anzac Day AFL clash at Domain Stadium.
Writing on his blog this week, he noted that Apple and Google (with Android) overcame the incumbents, Nokia and BlackBerry, because they could build devices using technologies – big touchscreens, fast mobile networks – that would have sunk them in 2000, but led to success after 2007.
This is why I left my family and friends for three weeks and overcame my fear of flying to travel to a remote province that few have heard of; to carry a week's food and clothing on my back and struggle for sleep in a tent pitched on uneven, rocky ground.
Five years later, however, the right-armer overcame those issues to claim match figures of 10-108, albein in a 170-run defeat.
Just as Labour overcame its distaste for those it would once have seen as rapacious capitalists and wicked press barons, so Tory toffs overcame theirs for people they used to treat as social inferiors.
Preston overcame Rochdale 1-0 at Deepdale to leave both sides a little less likely to finish in the play-offs.
Richmond overcame a mid-match wobble to secure the last finals spot with a thrilling three-point win over minor premiers Sydney at ANZ Stadium.
Faced with such embarrassing cosiness (Lawrence Freedman plumbed the lowest depths), the former prime minister quickly overcame his initial nervousness.
