Despite having a later start than his rivals and lacking both the material resources and social status they commanded, Liu Bei overcame his many defeats to carve out his own realm, which at its peak spanned modern day Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, part of Hubei and part of Gansu.

As a teenager, Barrett overcame a degenerative hip condition that made walking extremely difficult, and organized fan clubs for popular singers she admired, such as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence.

Judging for the Award was based on three criteria: the economic and ecological benefits the beach brings to its community ; the short and long term success of the restoration project ; and the challenges each community overcame during the course of the project.

This sound engine was titled the " Flexible Voice Driver ," and overcame the Super Famicom's small audio memory capacity by swapping short vocal samples on the fly.

Ex-prisoner Friedrich Schlaefrig describes how the residents with the assistance of the Germans, overcame the lack of water to the town ; " We had no water system in Theresienstadt ... a number of wells were contaminated in a short time with typhoid fever.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

It was during the period of the Moto films that Lorre struggled and overcame his addiction.

But once they overcame the obstacles, these researchers did confirm a period of about 24 hours as the rotation period of the plane of oscillation

During this period, Neo-Confucian ideology overcame the prior dominance of Buddhism.

After a long period of confusion, Sima, representing the Legion's less radical wing, overcame all competition and assumed leadership, being recognised as such on 6 September 1940 by the Legionary Forum, a body created at his initiative.

During this period he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, often fatal at that time, but after a period of retreat in Vittel he overcame the disease.

The increasing strength of public opinion, as expressed in the newspapers and elections over a twenty-year period overcame religious bias and deference to the crown, first in the House of Commons and then in the House of Lords.

The Eagles overcame a 20-10 Saints lead late in the third quarter by scoring 26 points in the final period.

As these above positions, Vu Quoc Uy and the whole school staff overcame hard period in its Deo Voi branch in Dong Trieu district, Quang Yen province and other branches opened many training classes for 1000 staff, Party members to serve struggling task and seizing the city.

Most Spanish immigrants entered Brazil between 1880 and 1930, with the peak period between 1905 and 1919, when their annual entrances overcame those of Italians.

They overcame a 3-0 lead in the 1st period.

Although the heliometer was difficult to use, it had certain advantages for Bessel including a wider field of view compared to other great refractors of the period, and overcame atmospheric turbulence in measurements compared to a filar micrometer.

This overcame a severe limitation of ENIAC, which was the considerable time and effort required to reconfigure the computer to perform a new task.

He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative.

The ancient Roman Catholic tradition overcame this idea with the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and so achieved, for the very first time, a balanced constitution for states.

In a classic game, the Colt overcame a 21 – 3 deficit at halftime and would go onto win the game 38 – 34 and earned a trip to Super Bowl XLI, the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance since 1970 and for the first time in Indianapolis.

Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dignitaries attended the service and gave speeches in which they emphasized that " goodness overcame evil ".

These makers overcame the rules of FISA ( as the FIA was called at the time ) by building the requisite number of these models for the road.

At this time, Wilson still had considerable control within the group and, according to Wilson, they eventually overcame their initial negative reaction, as his newly created music began to near completion ; " They thought it was too far-out to do, you know ?...

Weinberger was a sickly child and required close nurturing from his mother ; in time, he overcame his poor health and shyness.

Els overcame a four man playoff to take home the famed Claret Jug for the first time, also quieting his critics about his mental toughness.

In a match lasting more than three hours, Henin overcame a 4 – 1 final set deficit, high temperatures, and muscle cramps to defeat Davenport for the first time in her career.

They were first brought into the time trialling public eye in the 1989 Tour de France when Greg Lemond overcame a 50-second deficit in the final day's time trial to win the Tour by 8 seconds from Frenchman Laurent Fignon.

One of Comber's finest sporting moments came on Christmas morning 1991 when local amateur football team Comber Rec., managed by Mervyn Boyce, overcame favourites Brantwood to lift the Steel and Sons Cup for the first time.

During Grant Morrison's Justice League run, the higher-dimensional nature of Mxyzptlk's fellow genies was played to its logical conclusion of possessing power ' two degrees of infinity ' higher than any normal beings ; Qwsp refers to himself as encompassing both time and hypertime in addition to our spatial dimensions, and another djinn named Lkz overcame and imprisoned the hostless Spectre without apparent trouble.

In April 1866 Congress again passed the bill, Johnson again vetoed it, but this time a two-thirds majority in each house overcame the veto and the bill became law.

Kimberly was often isolated from the rest of the team and put into danger, but she overcame adversity each time, including landing her uncle's airplane, escaping from Samurai Fan Man and Lord Zedd, and recruiting the ancestors of her present-day friends to become the Wild West Rangers when she falls into a time hole that brings her to 1880's Angel Grove.

Cape Cod repeated as PDL champs in 2003, beating the Chicago Fire Reserves in the final ( and despite the presence of Jürgen Klinsmann playing for Orange County Blue Star ), while 2004 saw the title head to Florida for the first time as the Central Florida Kraze overcame perennial bridesmaids Boulder Rapids Reserve.

The high roll rates ( approximately 260 degrees per second at the time of canard deployment ) induced by the launch vehicle malfunction stabilized the launch escape vehicle in a tower-forward attitude, which overcame the destabilizing effect of the canards.

In this game, the superior air game used by Eastern teams at the time overcame Michigan's ground game.

They overcame Reading in the semi-finals and 3 – 0 victory over in the final at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, saw Jones become the manager who returned Wolves to the top level of English football for the first time since 1984 and the man who achieved the chairman Jack Hayward's ambition of Premier League footballer after 11 years, millions of pounds spent on players, and four previous managers.

Groves ' favourable impression overcame the views of the Squadron Commander at the time who believed that Warneford would never make an officer because of his lack of concern for disciplinarian matters.

They overcame 2 – 1 after extra time in the semi-final, and won 1 – 0 against in the final to become African Champions.

South Shields-born Mortensen went to war in 1939 as a wireless operator and overcame an injury – sustained when his RAF bomber crashed, leaving him as the only survivor – to become one of England's best post-war players.

They overcame new boys Kalamazoo Outrage 4-1 the first week in June ( with all four goals being scored by Steve Zakuani ), battered West Virginia Chaos 5-0, and took down Cincinnati again 5-1 at home, leaving the club on the verge of the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.

As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.

:* Minamoto no Yoriyoshi – The commander who overcame the Abe clan in the Zenkunen War.

His form showed no signs of letting up in the following game, as he weighed in with two goals and another assist as the Red Bulls overcame Chicago Fire to win 3-0, taking them to joint top of the Eastern Conference.

The dairy industry crashed in the 1960s with the rise of the European Common Market, when export prices fell ( with Britain no longer relying on Australian dairy products ) and the margarine industry finally overcame laws restricting its production levels.

They comfortably overcame Central Florida Kraze 4-1 in the conference semi-final, thanks in no small part to a pair of goals from substitute Jeremy Judice, but they were uncharacteristically beaten 2-0 in the conference final by Memphis.