Sentence examples for overcome disgrace from inspiring English sources
But they have summoned the strength for one more battle, each aching to overcome disgrace, to speak the last word and, perhaps, even to taste sweetness in the other's final defeat.
But even though companies have overcome similar disgraces, Saylor's startup probably isn't suffering from its ignominious past: With its books cleaned up, it looks like MicroStrategy's real problem is competition from business intelligence software market giants like Computer Associates, IBM, Informix, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.
When the Catholic civil rights movements took to the streets singing "We shall overcome," the largely Protestant RUC was regarded as having disgraced itself when officers were televised energetically wielding batons against non-violent protesters.
Pollard lived to old age, eventually a likable night watchman on Nantucket who overcame ambition, calamity and disgrace to make peace with the world and himself.
Almost 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides wrote that poverty was "no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome".
But as is the case with many who are disgraced, the reality of his actions was too powerful for him to overcome.
