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How to use the word Overcomes in a Sentence?

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I think this is part of the electric car, student loan, marijuana strategy all timed for the election. Don’t think it overcomes particularly the growing issue of crime and drug related crime in the country.

Fox News

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1 year ago

Will overcomes lack of ability.”

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

That friction builds up and builds up and eventually the strain that’s stored there overcomes the friction, and that’s when the fault moves suddenly. That’s what an earthquake is.

Gavin Hayes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The strong is not the one who overcomes people by his strength but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger

Prophet Muhammad

added by Ih761989
3 years ago

True love overcomes anything.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
3 years ago

For me, plausible deniability doesn't work for somebody who is in power, david Oliver was elected so David Oliver should be able to oversee the efforts to clean everything up. David Oliver could be the greatest president in IAAF history if David Oliver overcomes what is going on.

David Oliver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This case involves a human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, a young man overcomes huge physical disabilities to reach Olympian heights as an athlete. In doing so he becomes an international celebrity, he meets a young woman of great natural beauty and a successful model, romance blossoms, and then, ironically on Valentine’s Day, all is destroyed when he takes her life.

Judge Eric Leach

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Any way I can support such a strong amazing — not only woman but — human being, who is so courageous, who just has been through so much and gets stronger and overcomes and thrives and is so knowledgeable and smart and comes from such a hardworking background like the rest of us, it was something I had to do. To be so inspired by her. I was honored to have her in my home and to have so many people show up and support her, and I loved it.

Christina Aguilera

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

ICSI overcomes many sperm problems but it does n’t overcome all problems.

Philip Werthman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The question has always been and still sort of remains is : Is it ICSI itself which leads to this increased risk or is it the patient who needs ICSI ? iCSI overcomes many sperm problems but it does n’t overcome all problems.

Thomas Molinaro

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I can confirm that UPMC Presbyterian has been enrolled in Kentucky Medicaid, and we are working to complete enrollment of some of our physicians, kentucky Medicaid executives are helping us to get this done in a streamlined fashion that overcomes previous administrative hurdles and misunderstandings in this complex case.

Wendy Zellner

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.

Laozi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Matthew Arnold

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Marsha Evans

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton

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14 years ago

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Aristotle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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