Sentence examples for were being overcome from inspiring English sources

The ticket service Fandango reported advance tickets surpassed Tom Cruise's previous film Oblivion, but were being overcome by the competing film The Fault in Our Stars.

In Maine, on the east coast, cultivation problems with indigenous species of Porphyra slowed progress, but as these were being overcome, regulatory issues between landholders and commercial fishermen again delayed progress.

In other PCOs these barriers were being overcome and new models of care successfully developed, although their sustainability in the shifting organisational context at the time of the study was in question.

But this is being overcome.

The obstacles are being overcome.

These obstacles can be and are being overcome.

But those are being overcome, thanks to the rapid growth of the smartphone industry.

This problem is being overcome, CMU's Reddy says, by designing software that does not rely on page numbers.

These obstacles are being overcome by genetically engineered mouse models and newly developed high-resolution ultrasound.

But this is being overcome in a very Japanese way: by laying the groundwork for deals in advance.

These are more cerebral, but still unsettling, and the question of whether these buildings are being overcome or are the sources of grand flourishing is not resolved.