Sentence examples for overcome defeat from inspiring English sources

"We said yesterday that we were a team that was ready to overcome defeat," Cuba's manager, Higinio Velez, said afterward through a translator.

Written by Steven Knight ("Dirty Pretty Things") and directed by the veteran Michael Apted, the movie is upbeat in tone, conventional in form, and often reminiscent of earlier inspirational pictures about heroes who overcome defeat and go on fighting against impossible odds.

"With all the positive impacts we are seeing, we are organizing ourselves to better overcome defeats".

Neubauer states, "Her poems in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing imply that as long as such melodies are sung and heard, hope and strength will overcome defeated dreams".

For some, the fact that this is about poverty overcome and defeated will render the movie inauthentic or even mendacious.

Although he deals with such miseries as domestic abuse, broken homes, alcoholism, and rape, he virtually always shows these obstacles being overcome or defeated by religious feeling.

We have to learn to overcome our defeats and build on our victories.

She says that attending school with other students (without disabilities) challenged her to be better and encouraged her to overcome self-defeat.

Bassist Wendy Drennen said that "Unbreakable" was about "overcoming a defeated mentality and finding the power to remain strong amid the landscape, not allowing fear to hold us back from having victory over the things that used to control us".

Just as apartheid in South Africa was overcome and Jim Crow defeated in the South, so, too, is it possible for Jews and Palestinians to live as equals.

The reason is that it's not the reward that's interesting, it's what it signifies: satisfaction of a job well done, a stroke of luck, a problem solved, a situation overcome, an enemy defeated.