America, however, wanted a feminist hero who had surmounted adversities to achieve greatness.
In interviews, videos, regulatory filings and her writings, Orman repeats a personal story about surmounting adversity shortly after she started her own firm in 1987.
Seemingly attractive programs built on the basis of alternative markers, for instance, low-income area zip-codes, surmounting adversity, and disadvantaged family conditions [ 15, 16], are forms of the affirmative action that attempt to achieve racial and ethnic diversity but bypass the use of race.
Less sensational than that of Classical protagonists and not requiring military action for its manifestation, Christian heroism is a continuous reaffirmation of faith in God and is manifested in renewed prayer for patience and fortitude to endure and surmount adversities.
Ms. Berry's young daughter, Dr. Weaver said, who, like the child in Emma Donoghue's 2010 novel "Room," was born into captivity, has an equally good chance of surmounting the adversity of her early life.
As writers negotiate to what extent the human will can surmount the adversity of an indifferent reality, sculptors and painters retreat from the very thought of the masterpiece--which failed to tame the barbarous impulses of nations.
However, individuals and populations in poor living conditions frequently have fewer resources to surmount unforeseen adversities.
Both men have overcome adversity.
And when they do, when the adversity is only there to be heroically surmounted, we tend to know what kind of books they are.
