* The Tuskegee Airmen ( 1995 ), the story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest U. S. fighter groups in World War II, flying P-51s, although the 99th Squadron would have used P-40 and P-39 during their North African stint.

The choice overcame opposition from Montreal's surrounding municipalities, and also prevented land speculation.

In January 1953, Nasser overcame opposition from Naguib and banned all political parties, creating a one-party system, the Liberation Rally, whose purpose was to function as a national movement that would replace all parties.

While it looked as if co-operation between these parties would not be feasible a shared opposition to Fianna Fáil and Éamon de Valera overcame all other difficulties and the coalition government was formed.

Smant ( 1991 ) finds that Burnham overcame sometimes heated opposition from other members of the editorial board ( including Meyer, Schlamm, William Rickenbacker, and the magazine's publisher William A. Rusher ), and had a significant impact on both the editorial policy of the magazine and on the thinking of Buckley himself.

In December 1741, the daughter of Peter the Great, who, from her habits was a favourite with the soldiers, excited the guards to revolt, overcame the insignificant opposition, and ascended the throne as empress Elizabeth.

Amin's troops easily overcame the disorganized opposition to the coup, and Amin almost immediately initiated mass executions of Acholi and Langi troops, whom he believed to be pro-Obote.

He overcame opposition from local politicians when the Boselli Foundation proposed renovating and reopening a closed community center and has significant support.

To do this he overcame hostility and opposition from much of the scientific community.

Generally in remote areas, the White League's show of force and outright murders always overcame opposition.

Watanabe declined an interview request, but his memoirs describe how he overcame Ministry of Education opposition to the TOEIC by taking cover " behind the ministry of trade shield.

Never one to let obstacles stand in his way, Sims overcame the opposition by writing directly ( in 1902 ) to President Theodore Roosevelt.

He was closely followed by the men of his company and speedily overcame all opposition.

In 1841, his desire to paint overcame his parents ' opposition.

Wisla 5-1 in their first round tie, with two of the goals being scored by Julian Nash, and even more impressively overcame PSL stalwarts New Hampshire Phantoms by the same scoreline in the second round, despite the game being Chicago's first ever match against professional opposition.

On the grounds of his holding a prebend, he was deprived of his fellowship in 1579, but was reinstated in 1581, at the instance of Lord Burghley, the chancellor, who, moved by the representations of Richard Barnes, the Bishop of Durham, the Earl of Huntingdon, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, overcame the opposition of John Hatcher, the vice-chancellor, and Edward Hawford, master of Christ's.

It was a hard fought infantry battle in which the British infantry overcame tough Ottoman opposition.

Eymard overcame a number of difficulties to reach his goals, including poverty in his family and in his newly founded community, his father's initial opposition to his only son ’ s desire to be a priest, years of serious illness and pain, a Jansenistic striving for inner perfection and the difficulties of getting diocesan and later papal approval for his new religious community.

This time his popularity had risen to such that he easily overcame his opposition to secure the nomination.

The long friendship between Bohm and Krishnamurti went through a rocky interval in later years, and although they overcame their differences and remained friends until Krishnamurti's death, the relationship did not reattain its previous intensity.

In round 2 Holyfield sent Moorer down on the canvas, but Moorer overcame and went on to win a majority decision.

Edward's archers were brought into place and went to work with their deadly longbows, and quickly overcame the inexperienced force of badly-armed Scottish archers.

In his first season with the Coyotes in 2009 – 10, the team overcame its off-ice troubles to finish with a club record 50 wins, as they went 50 – 25 – 7, earning 107 points, which was a 28 point improvement over the 2008 – 09 season and helping the Coyotes to their first playoff berth since the 2001 – 02 season.

To get over her fear of dogs, she went on the show Emergency Vets, accompanying staff veterinarian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald ( she also overcame another phobia in the same episode by holding a live snake, one of Fitzgerald's patients ) and shortly after adopted a Tabby, which she named Abby.

But still protected the merciful, man-loving God us and sheltered us from the foreign people, and the word came to Novgorod that Swedes were sailing to Ladoga ; but prince Alexander did not hesitate at all, but went against them with Novgorodians and people of Ladoga and overcame them with the help of Saint Sophia and through prayers of our lady, the Mother of God and Virgin Mary, July 15, in the memory of Kirik and Ulita, on Sunday, ( the same day that ) the 630 holy fathers held a meeting in Chalcedon ; and there was a great gathering of the Swedes ; and their leader called Spiridon was killed there ; but some claimed that even the bishop was slain ; and a great number of them fell ; and when they had loaded two ships with the bodies of high-born men, they let them sail to the sea ; but the others, that were unnumbered, they cast to a pit, that they buried, and many others were wounded ; and that same night they fled, without waiting for the Monday light, with shame.

Lascelle " Wiss " Bulgin, Albert " Apple Gabriel " Craig, and Cecil " Skelly " Spence all overcame childhood polio, and went on to be one of the most successful roots groups to form in Jamaica in the 1970s.

: On 3 December 1917, at Polderhoek in Belgium, Private Nicholas who was one of a Lewis Gun section, which was checked by heavy machine-gun and rifle fire from an enemy strong-point, went forward followed by the remainder of his section at an interval of about 25 yards, shot the officer in command of the strong-point and overcame the remainder of the garrison of 16 with bombs and bayonets, capturing four wounded prisoners and a machine-gun.

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.

He went into rehab in 2000 and overcame his addictions.

However, Lubbock overcame this tragic loss and went on to win its first state title, as assistant coach Goober Keyes took over as head man.

Nevertheless, just as he had in his previous school, he overcame these difficulties and went on to win a silver medal for his accomplishments.

He eventually overcame his doubts and went on to establish another world impact ministry, " La Palabra Viva " ( The Living Word ) in the late 1990s, which continues to flourish to this day.

Liam, a human / Kimera hybrid, initially struggled with his Kimera side, though with occasional input from his Kimera parent on a spirit plane, and the fact that as time went on, he became more and more human, he overcame many of these difficulties.

From then on, King Jeongjo went through many turbulent timeperiods but overcame them with the aid of Hong Guk-yeong.

As a child, Parsons had a stutter, which he overcame by the age of 15, and was slow to learn owing to dyslexia.

Up from Slavery is the 1902 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his work to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools — most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama — to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps.

As Viola sat there, a playful impulse overcame her to remove the shoes and socks from the unidentified feet and, as a prank, insert rosebuds between the toes.

It would appear that the subsidizing of southern populations by the import of wheat from the north of the Empire temporarily overcame this problem, and it seems to have allowed economic recovery and a growing population within this region.

The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from 24 June 1948 to 11 May 1949.

He overcame a series of revolts — both from an elder brother and from several dukes.

The weight of cannon distributed to lower decks of the ship increased its stability immensely, effectively providing ballast, and a row of cannon on a lower deck produced the broadside, where the weight of shot overcame the inherent inaccuracy of firing cannons from a ship at sea.

In its eleven years in power, the Sandinista government never overcame most of the economic inequalities that it inherited from the Somoza era.

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.

Through what amounted to a palace coup, the queen's supporters overcame Fulk, and from 1135 onwards Fulk's influence rapidly deteriorated.

Bentley overcame competition from top actors under the age of 25 to be cast.

The legislation overcame the bitter resistance, particularly from the American Medical Association, to the idea of publicly funded health care or " socialized medicine " by making its benefits available to everyone over sixty-five, regardless of need, and by linking payments to the existing private insurance system.

While Spanish Nueva canción musicians with the fall of the Franco regime finally overcame censorship in the late 1970s musicians from the Southern Cone faced severe censorship and even exile and death by the ruling right-wing military juntas.

Against St. Mirren in the Scottish League Cup, the club overcame a two-men deficit from red cards, a late deciding goal from Kenny Miller securing a record 27th competition victory.

It was in Cilicia that Zeus battled with the ancient monster and overcame him, in a more complicated story: It was not an easy battle, and Typhon temporarily overcame Zeus, cut the " sinews " from him and left him in the " leather sack ", the korukos that is the etymological origin of the korukion andron, the Korykian or Corycian Cave in which Zeus suffers temporary eclipse as if in the Land of the Dead.

In talking to the proprietor, Juan ( Stanley Adams ), Smith learns about the hardships that the nuns, led by the unyielding Mother Maria, overcame to emigrate from Eastern Europe – over the Berlin Wall – only to barely scratch out a meager living on the farm that was willed to their order.

* Ed Furgol, winner of 1954 US Open at Baltusrol, champion golfer who overcame an unbending left arm from a broken elbow at age 12

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

The trajectory change overcame the design flaw for the most part, and data transmission succeeded, although the information from one of the two radio channels was lost due to an unrelated error.

She was saved from immediate sinking by the sighting of another German light cruiser,, to which Beatty gave chase and again quickly overcame.

A revised version, called cumulative prospect theory overcame this problem by using a probability weighting function derived from Rank-dependent expected utility theory.