Sentence examples for weeks to overcome from inspiring English sources

It took weeks to overcome her reluctance.

Using a robot, engineers could take weeks to overcome obstacles or finish the work, he added.

The lawyers met in Midtown Manhattan for weeks to overcome the practical and legal obstacles of such an exchange.

The federal transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, persuaded Mr. Christie to give his staff two weeks to overcome the governor's objections.

It took weeks to overcome skepticism on Capitol Hill, but the intelligence committees eventually approved the administration's plan to give light arms to the rebels, but not the antiaircraft weapons the rebels insisted they needed the most.

In 1940, while the United States was still neutral, he borrowed $20 and ate solidly for two weeks to overcome a Canadian recruiting sergeant's scepticism that he was too scrawny to fight.

Having to wait a week to overcome an impossible obstacle brings a tension that just wasn't really there with a 45-minute movie-of-the-week.

A key to Senate passage was a vote earlier in the week to overcome a filibuster, by a two-vote margin.

Before getting into that story, perhaps the best recent tackling of the subject came in October from writer Jazmine Hughes, who dressed like the character Cookie from the show "Empire" for a week to overcome feelings of inadequacy at her new job at The New York Times.

The TPM treated group suffered from restricted field of view after eight weeks, unable to overcome the deficits over the 16 weeks of the study.

In addition, adjusting for swabbing week helped to overcome another possible limitation of the test-negative design by controlling the analysed data for calendar time [ 18].