Although the Premier League is tough because players have good physiques and can switch swiftly in offense and defense, it can be overcome after adapting to the league for a few months.
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.
The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
The Apostle Paul did what he had to do to spread the message of God. I realize that that is what I have to do; I have to bite the bullet and overcome my shyness.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.