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Example sentences for: overcome

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Julie Burchill wrote recently in the Guardian , "The idea that one party has to overcome the 'natural' resistance of the other party to sexual intercourse by a combination of gifts and being economical with the truth takes us perilously near to date-rape territory."
You say black people need affirmative action to overcome historical injustice?
In Invisible Man , the Talented Tenth narrator must overcome not only the various ideologies that are presented to him as masks or subversions of identity, but also the various roles and prescriptions for leadership his own race wishes him to fulfill.
The CIA is much less likely to overcome its personnel problem, which affects its quality as an intelligence organization far more than the choice of the next director ever could.
Overexpression of SKP2 is not sufficient to overcome androgen-mediated G1 arrest