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I lived in this onward-driving contest where each day overcame a new difficulty, gained a new truth, or banished a previous error ''.
Everything had to be sent by sea and then carted, but he met each difficulty as it arose, and overcame it successfully.
In Vienna, he returned to a nasty professional and political controversy ( including an acrimonious dispute with Paul Fillunger ), which he overcame only with some difficulty.
The government, however, overcame this difficulty by introducing a bill of attainder, which after a long and acrimonious discussion passed through both Houses of Parliament ( Act 8 & 9 Will.
Wisden in its tour summary stated unequivocally that " Jardine, while nothing like the batsman in Australia of four years earlier, captained the side superbly " but he " had one great difficulty which he never successfully overcame ".
He overcame the difficulty at last, by the discovery of a traditional school of craftsmen at Sant ' Angelo in Vado, by whose help his well-known reproductions were executed.

overcame and
He overcame a series of revolts both from an elder brother and from several dukes.
: “ He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me ’ in those who harbor such thoughts hatred will never cease .”
: “ He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me ’ in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease .”
Leonard Nimoy, in his 1995 book I am Spock, writes that " frankly during the entire shooting of that episode, I was embarrassed a feeling that overcame me many times during the final season of Star Trek.
He also successfully overcame a debilitating wave of hyper-inflation that hit the country he brought inflation down from more than 10, 000 percent to less than 10 percent and managed to defend the value of the currency following the 1998 Russian financial crisis.
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.
Wark set a competition record by scoring 14 goals including two, one in each leg in the final as Ipswich overcame Dutch side AZ 67 Alkmaar 5 – 4 on aggregate.
In subsequent interviews, he also revealed that he was having " personal problems " at that point in his career and had lost his enjoyment for football problems which he overcame later in his Blackburn Rovers career.

overcame and soon
Farmers soon realised that a milking shed was a good place to feed cows supplementary foods that overcame local dietary deficiencies or added to the cows ' wellbeing and production.
The few militia in the area succeeded in warning Cuban armed forces via radio soon after the first landing, before the invaders overcame their token resistance.
Aumont soon overcame the League's light horse and their royalist counterparts retreated under the attack of a Walloon ( essentially Belgian ) squadron backed up by two squadrons from the League.
The cities of Bashan were taken by Hazael (), but were soon after reconquered by Jehoash (), who overcame the Syrians in three battles, according to the prophecy of Elisha ( 19 ).
They soon overcame the language barrier that separated them and the fact that she knew nothing about bullfighting.
As soon as she overcame her pain, she returned to Brutus and said:
Nietzsche's consuming interest in philosophy, however, soon overcame his work in philology.
On The Michael Witt Story that aired on The NRL Footy Show later that year, Witt admitted that he felt like he had let the whole Parramatta organisation down with those missed attempts at goal, but he soon quickly overcame this early setback to become one of the form players in the NRL with many commentators impressed with his maturity and the sharpness of his skills.

overcame and after
She stated that Mr. B .’ s homosexual behaviour diminished after he overcame his need to adore the “ good penis ” of an idealized man.
Liddell Scott provides other sources for the shortened form of this verb, including Acusilaus ( 5th century BC ), Joannes Laurentius Lydus ( 4th century AD ) and the Scholiast on Aeschylus, Eumenides, who cites Pindar relating how the earth tried to tartaro " cast down " Apollo after he overcame the Python.
The Vikings overcame the Saxons after losing many men, killing Byrhtnoth.
Groves steadily overcame one crisis after another, dealing with strikes, shortages, competing priorities and engineers who were not up to their tasks.
Spassky then finished ahead of Petrosian and a super-class field at Santa Monica 1966 ( the Piatigorsky Cup ), with 11½ / 18, half a point ahead of Bobby Fischer, as he overcame the American grandmaster's challenge after Fischer had scored 3½ / 9 in the first cycle of the event.
Success was finally achieved with the autumn-flowering Chinese elm Ulmus parvifolia by the late Prof. Eugene Smalley towards the end of his career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after he overcame the problem of keeping Chinese elm pollen alive until spring.
The trekkers took advantage of the political vacuum left after the Zulu wars and their aftermath, and easily overcame the indigenous peoples.
In a remarkable season, Carlton languished with a record of 3 – 6 after nine weeks, but won ten of the remaining eleven home-and-away matches to finish fourth ; Carlton then comfortably beat in the first semi-final, overcame a 28-point deficit in the final quarter to beat Collingwood in the preliminary final, then beat South Melbourne in the notoriously brutal and violent Bloodbath Grand Final.
The deities gathered in terror, but Anu, ( replaced later, first by Enlil and, in the late version that has survived after the First Dynasty of Babylon, by Marduk, the son of Ea ), first extracting a promise that he would be revered as " king of the gods ", overcame her, armed with the arrows of the winds, a net, a club, and an invincible spear.
In the semifinals the squad overcame Cruzeiro after a 0-1 victory at the Mineirão.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox finally overcame the Yankees en route to a World Series sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals, after which Nomar's former teammates voted to give him a World Series ring.
On September 23, 1810, after meetings beginning in June, rebels overcame the Spanish garrison at Baton Rouge and unfurled the flag of the new republic: a single white star on a blue field.
However, the company never overcame a series of financial problems during its transition, and its decline started only six months after its launch.
While the Boardmans and Ko Tha Byu were penetrating the jungles to the south, Judson shook off a paralyzing year-long siege of depression that overcame him after the death of his wife and set out alone on long canoe trips up the Salween River into the tiger-infested jungles to evangelize the northern Karen.
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.
It was he who overcame the reluctance of the army to march to the relief of Vienna ; after the defeat at the Battle of Schwechat, at which he was present, he sent Józef Bem to carry on the war in Transylvania.
The Uruguayans sailed past Yugoslavia by seven clear goals, then overcame the United States by three goals to nil ; only after the Americans had shut bolt their defence.
Superman and Batman destroyed the OMAC body with the aid of the Metal Men, after the Metal Men overcame Brainiac's control.
Especially after he overcame the skepticism of Appalachian Trail Conference officials ( who initially believed his claim of completing the route was obviously fraudulent ), his trip raised public awareness of the Trail.
The persuasion of his friends, particularly Sir Orlando Bridgeman, at length overcame his repugnance ; and to that see, though very moderately endowed, he for ever after devoted himself, and resisted every offer of translation, though repeatedly made and earnestly recommended.
Jones said that although he was averse to naming the school after himself his friends overcame his reluctance " with the argument that the school would be called by that name because of my connection with it, and to attempt to give it any other name would confuse the people.
Smarty Jones overcame his injuries after three weeks in the hospital and spent more than a month recuperating on the farm.
Cosby aspired to become a special education teacher after he overcame his dyslexia.

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