Sentence examples for set out to overcome from inspiring English sources

Undistinguished as a scholar or sportsman, he showed early signs of unusual determination when he set out to overcome a boyhood stutter.

Lack of money is a stubborn obstacle, but not as hopelessly unyielding as some of the others, and so would-be world-changers often set out to overcome it.

But for Mr. Scott, a bedrock conservative and workaholic who approaches the job of governor as the corporate chief he once was, it is also a reflection of his aversion to the fine points and foolishness of politics, something he has set out to overcome in his second year in office.

So, in order to increase their supply on the site, he set out to overcome the difficulties that users had often no more than an inability to remember the vital statistics of the machine they had been using.Then he stumbled on the issue of waste and realised that the company could do even more.

In this study, we set out to overcome this shortcoming.

Considerable progress has been made by others in respect of olive fly mass-rearing and release, and we set out to overcome the key remaining issues through genetics.

Finding that 'there is not much on record about falling away', she sets out to overcome what she sees as a senseless modern taboo, turning her fine, inquiring mind and balanced prose to a consideration of old age and death.

As outlined in this article, it sets out to overcome the presumption that technology is value-neutral and to lower the inflated expectations with which it is generally associated.

As a form of sectoral CEA, Generalized CEA sets out to overcome a number of these barriers to the appropriate use of cost-effectiveness information at the regional and country level.

They discover a series of tunnels hidden behind a statue in Willie's room and set out to explore them, overcoming a number of booby-traps along the way.

Oftentimes, people expect too much of themselves, and when they cannot achieve what they had set out to do, they feel overcome, useless and defeated.