Sentence examples for overcome long from inspiring English sources

Those who make it big here, but come from there, have overcome long odds and some difficult stereotypes.

The Bulls looked little like the team that has repeatedly shaken off adversity and overcome long odds during this postseason.

While Democrats would have to overcome long odds to recapture control of the House, vacancies like these certainly help.

The characters in Rocky Stories have, like Rocky, overcome long odds and remained standing; they have known death, disease and despair but they have not yet been beaten.

The international challengers have to overcome long travel, often a different climate and, in the case of Johannesburg and Sakhee on Saturday, a different surface.

Unless the Jets overcome long odds Sunday to make the playoffs, Sanchez could be forced to confront an uncomfortable and unfamiliar reality.

Chicago's enormous school system has laboured to overcome long-term problems with its quality while attempting to serve diverse ethnic and social class groups.

His sudden presence, while a ticklish matter between India and China, which have been working to overcome long-strained relations, has been a cause for rejoicing among most Tibetans.

A10 Nationalism Rising in Asia With the impending 60th anniversary of end of World War II, both China and Japan are encouraging nationalism for political purposes: China to buttress loyalty as Marxist ideology fades, and Japan to overcome long-held taboos against expanding its military.

Ferdinand was signed from Leeds in 2002 and has overcome long-standing injury problems to start more games than any other United centre-back this term.

Both, however, had to do some fancy footwork to reconcile the Epicurean denial of immortality with Christian doctrine and to overcome long-lasting prejudices about the hedonistic immorality of Epicureanism.