Sentence examples for overcome efforts from inspiring English sources

The real story in 2012 is our community's rallying and organizing to overcome efforts to deny us our rightful place at the table.

The state's economy will also need to overcome efforts to close a $27 billion state budget gap over the next two years.

Hanlon said the plan called city officials and civic leaders to adopt a "linked-arms approach" to overcome efforts by residents to organize against having a homeless shelter in their neighborhoods, as has occurred in the past.

Although there were concerns in Congress about multiple coinciding projects in the close air support role, the Marine Corps were enthusiastic about the Harrier and managed to overcome efforts to obstruct its procurement.

Perhaps the issue closest to my heart is the effort to make policing more professional, which has to overcome efforts by politicians to use the police to suppress dissent or to take illegal shortcuts in dealing with crime and disorder.

D1 Bidding for Japanese Slugger An offer of $13.125 million from the Seattle Mariners overcame efforts by the Mets and two other teams to gain the rights to sign Ichiro Suzuki, a star outfielder from Japan.

Mr. Monti, however, expressed optimism that such difficulties could be overcome and efforts coordinated across borders.

Pharmacologic attempts to abolish this mechanism have largely failed as metabolic regulatory mechanisms appear able to overcome our efforts, suggesting that the body's metabolic wisdom trumps ours.

For year 2 and 3, the agendas of trainees and trainers were nearly saturated and to overcome resistance, efforts were necessary to motivate trainers.

The only three Republicans who voted to "fund our troops" did so after the Democrats had secured the 60 votes they needed to overcome the effort.

In an effort to overcome this limitation, multiple efforts were made to increase the response rates of haematological cancer survivors approached for this study.