Sentence examples for overcome a week from inspiring English sources

Manly have overcome a week of drama to push four points clear at the top of the NRL ladder with a gutsy 22-12 win over the injury-hit Warriors.

Even Hewlett-Packard shares couldn't keep pace with Dell's on Tuesday as Chief Executive Mark Hurd Mark Hurd pushed through a sweeping board overhaul designed to overcome a week of controversy.

Last week's App Smart column offers a few strategies for overcoming a week without power in a house full of children.

The slight gains on Friday could not overcome a tough week for the market, when both the S.& P. 500 and the Dow lost 2.1 percent.

Ian McGeechan, the Wasps director of rugby, knows his side have to overcome a disruptive three-week gap since their last full competitive fixture.

A key to Senate passage was a vote earlier in the week to overcome a filibuster, by a two-vote margin.

Diafra Sakho, who scored in mid-week, has overcome a back complaint sufficiently enough to take a place among the substitutes.

In 1940, while the United States was still neutral, he borrowed $20 and ate solidly for two weeks to overcome a Canadian recruiting sergeant's scepticism that he was too scrawny to fight.

The setback came a few weeks after he had overcome a major obstacle.

Having to wait a week to overcome an impossible obstacle brings a tension that just wasn't really there with a 45-minute movie-of-the-week.

"We had to overcome a losing tradition, the sense that everybody expected you to lose every week.