We see the future prime minister surmount her grocer's-daughter background, win elections, stare down opponents and wage war.
The ease with which Ashley surmounts her terrible choices — as well as her voyage deeper into a Mexico where a saint hands out opportune absolution — regrettably tugs the movie elsewhere.
And then along comes his wife (Melissa Leo), surmounting her agoraphobia to chase him to New Orleans, to complete the makeshift Riley family.
In the autobiographical section of the document, Sor Juana traces the many obstacles that her powerful "inclination to letters" had forced her to surmount throughout her life.
As interpreted by Whit Stillman who wrote and directed the adaptation, Lady Susan is a charismatic figure whose beauty and intelligence allow her to surmount both her status as a landless widow and also the manners and mores of her time.
The standard and predictable response of an employee in a healthy workplace is to hit and surmount his or her goals and every team goal, too.
After making a satellite phone call to her doctor, she was confident that she would overcome her malady before surmounting the 4,700-meter 4,700-meter 15,000 feet) that lay before us.
Jones's tale would be bleak indeed were it not for the fact that in their ultimate moments Mr. Watts and her mother surmount their differences to affirm a shared moral code.
In "Martern aller Arten," her showpiece aria, her strong, agile voice easily surmounted the coloratura demands.
The PMBD, a wily grouping of regional barons that is the PT's main partner, will probably try to take advantage of her inexperience to satisfy its appetite for pork and spendthrift ministries, even though it lost seats in the election.The man who could help her surmount these hurdles is Lula himself.
