verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be overcome with emotion (= feel an emotion so strongly that you cannot behave normally )
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As soon as I heard that song, I was overcome with emotion.
beat/overcome/defy the odds (= succeed despite great difficulties )
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The baby, born sixteen weeks too early, defied the odds and is celebrating her first birthday.
conquer/overcome your fear (= stop being afraid )
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She managed to conquer her fear of flying.
curiosity gets the better of sb/overcomes sb (= makes you do something that you are trying not to do )
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Curiosity got the better of me and I opened her diary.
overcame...shyness
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I overcame my shyness .
overcome a disadvantage (= succeed in spite of a disadvantage )
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She was able to overcome the disadvantages of race and poverty.
overcome a problem
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We try to help families overcome housing problems.
overcome an obstacle ( also surmount an obstacle formal ) (= find a solution to an obstacle )
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We need to help young people overcome the obstacles that poverty puts in their way.
overcome barriers
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There are still many more barriers that need to be overcome.
overcome limitations ( also transcend limitations formal ) (= do more than you would normally be able or allowed to do )
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Can men and women ever transcend the limitations of their roles?
overcome opposition (= deal with opposition so that it no longer exists )
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Nothing he said could overcome their opposition.
overcome prejudice
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the story of how a poor kid from the ghetto overcomes poverty and prejudice
overcome resistance (= fight and win against it )
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How can he overcome resistance to the idea in Congress?
overcome/clear/get over etc a hurdle (= deal successfully with a problem )
overcome/resolve difficulties (= deal with them successfully )
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We are confident that we can overcome these difficulties.
resolve/overcome a crisis (= deal with it so that it no longer exists )
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We still hope that the hostage crisis can be resolved by negotiation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
easily
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They warned that commercially available encryption software would be easily overcome by intelligence services.
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But the gender gap is not so easily overcome .
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Yesterday they easily overcame Read in the Lancashire Knockout.
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Mosquitoes prove indeed delicate, easily overcome .
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Some are obviously unavoidable but others could, providing some thought and planning was implemented, be easily overcome .
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A poor response from Valencia was easily overcome and within the city there was much murmuring against the new ruler.
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Weakened by his excessively long kip, the Castle Master easily overcame him.
■ NOUN
attempt
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Modifications of a theory in an attempt to overcome a difficulty need not be adhoc.
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As a matter of fact, partnerships were developed in an attempt to overcome some of the major shortcomings of proprietorships.
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Kellock has since retitled its service Cashflow Finance in an attempt to overcome this barrier.
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His novel is a willed attempt to overcome the difficulty.
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This measure is an attempt to overcome the deficiency of the relative growth rates discussed above.
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The Emergency of 1975-77 was an attempt to overcome instability in a decisive and authoritarian manner.
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Under the Maccabeans they withstood the attempts of Antiochus to overcome their country and shatter their religion.
barrier
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Kellock has since retitled its service Cashflow Finance in an attempt to overcome this barrier .
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Each school had to overcome numerous barriers to reform through the collective work of all the faculty.
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Elephants elsewhere have been known to overcome both types of barriers that the task force was planning to erect.
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They also can help students overcome barriers to success, frustration, and pain, helping them grow to greater self-sufficiency.
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Our friendship is a triumph of overcoming every known barrier .
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Effective Listening Senders can overcome communication barriers by spending more time listening.
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The link worker can help overcome language and cultural barriers between the doctor or nurse and the patient.
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People who have overcome extreme barriers deserve a reward and this is the reward I want.
challenge
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He was able to overcome these and other challenges , but only by turning each issue into a question of confidence.
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Its agent has changed in its brief history and has adapted to overcome the many challenges with which it is faced.
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Despite a few mechanical mishaps, loyal George manages to overcome the challenge and deliver the family to Rome.
crisis
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It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974.
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Only when you overcome the crisis of self-confidence can opportunity make a difference in your life.
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Other local gentry families were less fortunate in overcoming the crisis produced by some of their members.
difficulty
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Thus the practical and ethical difficulties can be overcome .
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Nature had to present itself as a difficulty to be overcome .
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There are of course formidable difficulties to be overcome .
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These difficulties may be overcome in a number of ways: 1.
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However, these difficulties were overcome by the efforts of devoted officers.
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It could be argued that to a large extent such fears are unfounded or else that the difficulties have been overcome .
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Now the difficulties were almost overcome .
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Although there are many personal difficulties to be overcome when attempting to withdraw from drugs, it is possible.
division
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He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.
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This involved most notably a stress on the power of economic forces to overcome existing divisions between States.
effort
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During an effort to overcome one of those problems - a heart defect - surgeons gave the boy a blood transfusion.
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He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.
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Some of the Act's underlying principles can support efforts to overcome suspicion between travellers and welfare authorities.
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In the post-war period Moscow directed much effort towards overcoming its agricultural inferiority vis-à-vis the West, especially the United States.
fear
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Last night's film examined a one-day course which helps people overcome their fear of flying.
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Boys who need to show that they can overcome their fear or that they have none.
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Does being brave mean being strong or overcoming our fears ?
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She had overcome her fear of Rhayader.
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This kind of firm overcame that fear , Mr Muirhead said.
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To see clues that others have overlooked, to face danger and overcome fear .
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Once people overcome their fears about computers and begin to use them in telecottages, they acquire their own equipment.
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Most refuse to defy the cultural definition of masculinity, to overcome their fears , or to relinquish their male privilege.
hurdle
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The wind speed and direction, and the cloud height and type were major hurdles to be overcome each hour.
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This is one of two major hurdles the Cougars must overcome if they want to reach their first Rose Bowl since 1931.
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But once these hurdles are overcome , women soon stop harking back to their village background and comparing everything with it.
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By now, though, most of the technical hurdles have been overcome .
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I still had that hurdle to overcome .
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For most people, this is a great hurdle to overcome .
limitation
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The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms.
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Three orientations by size of the collectivity may be sufficient to overcome this limitation .
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The greenfly, another live-bearer, has evolved a way of overcoming even this limitation .
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The expectation is that special learners will adapt to overcome their limitations to the extent possible.
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We propose to overcome these limitations through the use of a new methodology for the assessment of connectionist networks.
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By grouping together, individuals overcome limitations imposed by both the physical environment and also their own biological limitations.
obstacle
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Selim had formidable obstacles to overcome , however, in modernising the archaic structure of the Ottoman empire.
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I also knew that one of the big obstacles to overcome would be the old conditioning.
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Sales v Credit Sales people often view the credit department as an obstacle to overcome in getting a sale.
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Bill Cosby once said he was doubly proud of his son because of the obstacles he had overcome .
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There are numerous different obstacles to be overcome on the way.
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But they add that Washington knows the Senate will be a difficult obstacle to overcome .
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Life appeared to flow along sweetly, without many surprises or obstacles to overcome .
odds
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A day on Crow, then, offers little in the way of drama or danger or overcoming odds .
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Sometimes overcoming enormous odds , mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.
opposition
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In each they struggled with considerable success to overcome that opposition .
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By her patience and charity she eventually overcame opposition and became the advisor and dearest friend of the whole household.
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Our ancestors were somehow able to overcome all the opposition that stood in their way.
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But he could not overcome strong opposition from anti-abortion activists in the party.
prejudice
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That would be a hard battle to win, since he would have to overcome prejudice , defeatism and small-mindedness.
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The three-year project is designed to overcome prejudice about the construction industry and give children a realistic insight into its many occupations.
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Davis's struggle to overcome the racial prejudice that held him back was backed by Sinatra.
problem
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Each situation brought about problems for me to overcome .
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The communication problem can be overcome in part through the use of interpreters.
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The problem was overcome by the passing of the 1876 Act.
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Of course there are problems , but look at the past and at the problems we have already overcome .
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If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome .
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We have some serious problems to overcome .
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And finally, I will explore some suggestions about how such problems may be overcome .
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My first problem was to overcome my sense of inadequacy at my own mathematical understanding.
reluctance
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In fact, you will probably need to overcome a certain reluctance to be recorded, whatever your location.
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The failure of 1874 helped to overcome radical reluctance to form centralized organizations.
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He says that clients must overcome their reluctance and come foreward.
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Whereas pity has to overcome a reluctance to be drawn into subjective awareness of another's suffering, cruelty welcomes it.
resistance
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At the beginning of each new paragraph she must summon her strength to overcome enormous resistances .
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Ideas need to be tested by their ability, in combination with events, to overcome inertia and resistance .
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The head alone can not overcome resistances and antagonisms which lie outside school.
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It was ridiculous, but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children.
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Similarly a sense of competition will often overcome the resistance .
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The first two chapters describe activities which will help overcome problems such as learner resistance .
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Work is done by a system when the system exerts a force to overcome resistance .
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Handling by kidney squeeze overcame any further resistance so that it was then possible to secure the model in the Pavlov stock.
shyness
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As passengers overcame an initial shyness the floor had begun to fill with dancing couples, the captain among them.
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This time I went because my desire to spend another couple of hours with my brother overcame my shyness .
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Denver overcame his shyness to take on a stage presence that made him internationally recognized.
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Having overcome his shyness , he revelled in the companionship.
way
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So a search began for ways of overcoming the difficulty.
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There was no way to overcome the feeling that we were all at a kind of funeral.
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One way of overcoming the apparent falsification was to suggest that phlogiston has negative weight.
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The measure of his heart is how he deals with adversity and the way he overcomes a seemingly impossible situation.
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Management and unions are looking at ways of overcoming the problem.
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It is always useful to consider ways to overcome any basic flaws in an evaluation procedure.
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The only way to overcome it is to succeed at something, at anything.
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Suggests ways of overcoming these problems.
ways
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So a search began for ways of overcoming the difficulty.
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It is always useful to consider ways to overcome any basic flaws in an evaluation procedure.
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It is useful to look at some ways of overcoming feelings of hesitation people often have before making a change.
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There are a number of ways to overcome this problem.
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Management and unions are looking at ways of overcoming the problem.
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Martin and Irvine 1983 recognise three problems with peer evaluation, and suggest ways of overcoming these problems.
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Suggests ways of overcoming these problems.
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When a player is presented with these psychological problems there are two ways he can overcome them.
■ VERB
design
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The three-year project is designed to overcome prejudice about the construction industry and give children a realistic insight into its many occupations.
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Operating rules are designed to overcome this inherent instability; but that night, in a hurry, the operators broke them.
help
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This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all.
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They also can help students overcome barriers to success, frustration, and pain, helping them grow to greater self-sufficiency.
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Last night's film examined a one-day course which helps people overcome their fear of flying.
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Getting with the program helped one overcome the stress of the times one lived in.
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Practising aerobatics and spinning will help to overcome any misgivings you may have about flying in steep turns at low speeds.
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In general the colonial revolution has helped to overcome lethargy and the feeling of political impotence.
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And again dismissal certainly will not help them overcome their alcohol problem.
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Read in studio Children with Cerebral Palsy could soon lose the training centre that helps them to overcome their handicap.
manage
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More recent studies have managed to overcome several of these problems.
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Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
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I realized he had managed to overcome what he called his weakness.
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Despite a few mechanical mishaps, loyal George manages to overcome the challenge and deliver the family to Rome.
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He admires actors like Robert Redford and Warren Beatty - who have managed to overcome their good looks and make a career.
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Daddy says it's quite remarkable the way you've always managed to overcome the obstacles in your life.
need
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In fact, you will probably need to overcome a certain reluctance to be recorded, whatever your location.
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We need something that will overcome them!
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For the system to work properly, several practical and technical obstacles will need to be overcome over the next 12 months.
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I knew from experience that objective performance data would be needed in overcoming that prior conditioning.
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Enormous vested interests will need to be overcome to bring about such changes.
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A range of policy innovations were needed to overcome or to moderate the urban problems.
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He may need counselling to overcome the trauma in the future.
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Ironically, the real weakness you need to overcome is your sensitivity to such criticism.
struggle
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Five target fish were nominated for the second day as the anglers struggled to overcome persistent torrential rain and buffeting winds.
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This magnificent abundance established one tradition that we are still struggling to overcome .
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Last Saturday, a weakened Gloucester side struggled to overcome Rosslyn Park.
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The very struggle to overcome the new problems can have a salutary welding effect on the new church.
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We didn't start as stars, struggling to overcome an excess of charm and good looks.
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While she was struggling to overcome the kidney disease, Erma was also fighting cancer and underwent a mastectomy.
try
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A number of solutions have been put forward to try and overcome this problem.
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The job of some one who is trying to overcome the idea of fighting to fall asleep is to give up.
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The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms.
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Once, trying to overcome a headache, she fell asleep.
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We will try to overcome both these obstacles together.
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Esoteric Psychology sets out to make us aware of it, and then gradually to try to overcome it.
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Her natural shyness was trying to overcome a new, bigger, and more intense feeling.
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Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Five employees were overcome by smoke.
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I don't think he'll ever overcome his fear of flying.
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I was overcome with an irresistible urge to hit him.
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New York overcame Washington in the final game.
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Sara had overcome the disadvantages of her background to become a successful lawyer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And its technical skill, vast financial reserves and marketing savvy give it the potential to overcome any early disadvantage.
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However, these difficulties were overcome by the efforts of devoted officers.
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I'd like to be able to overcome that feeling that it was a problem to everybody else.
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It had left him alone to think about the problems he had to face and how he would overcome them.
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One of the lessons of baseball is, adversity can be overcome .
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Rival, patriarchal faiths never entirely overcame the worship of this deity, nor will they ever do so.
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She felt she could never forgive herself, but when she got there, the beauty of the place overcame her again.
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Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.