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How to use the word Overcoming in a Sentence?

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Place my well-being above the fear of my anger. I would prefer experiencing frustration while working towards overcoming an addiction rather than risking my life due to the hesitation to confront the issue and potentially losing me. Prioritize my safety and health over the temporary discomfort of dealing with my emotions.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

I think the important thing for us as a group is that we stuck together through everything and we overcame those challenges, the women on this team have had each other’s backs from the start and from the beginning, and I think the group that we have, and the family that we have is what has kept us going through all of this and what has kept us kind of overcoming those obstacles.

Kayla McCoy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Overcoming any challenge for me starts with ownership -- know your job and do your job to the utmost of your ability every day. It is hard to argue with someone doing exceptional work supporting the mission and the team.

Amy Bauernschmidt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My basket was almost full, and I found something really overcoming me in such a way that I couldn't breathe.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Military training, throughout history, has required discipline.  Socrates believed that self-control could become the very foundation of moral wisdom if only we could learn how to apply it to overcoming violent passions, such as anger and hatred.   Stoicism appeals to military men and women precisely because it was inspired by ancient military values.  It’s especially relevant today because of its potential to reach many individuals who do not otherwise seek therapy or read self-help literature.  It also holds out the promise of a more lasting, perhaps even lifelong, personal transformation.

Mick Mulroy

added by MoWali
2 years ago

He’s become our ambassador, we’ve Zoomed with him several times, i used him as an example of overcoming adversity. ‘Baseball is not about living and dying, having colon cancer is about living and dying. Baseball has got to be fun.’ That’s the message that Trey gave to these kids.

Mark Rodgers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My position on the vaccine is that we can't just sit around and wait to get sick and then regret not getting inoculated, right now, it's about everybody pitching in and overcoming any fears about the vaccine so we can pull ourselves out of this pandemic.

Gloria Richard-Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's definitely that fear, but we have to deal with overcoming that fear because you don't want to remain immobilized or numbed by it, it's important to overcome it and work with solutions that we already have and how we can move forward to address this crisis.

Selina Neirok Leem

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are incredible boats... the highest praise for the AM team for overcoming what we did to get the boat back on the water. It would have been easy to stop.

Terry Hutchinson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Throughout the peak season, the Postal Service, along with the broader shipping sector, faced pressure on service performance across categories as it managed through a record of volume while also overcoming employee shortages due to the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases, winter storms in the Northeast, as well as ongoing capacity challenges with airlifts and trucking for moving historic volumes of mail.

The USPS

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Terence just needed help that day, that's all he needed and he was overcoming.

Terence Crutcher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The question for Thursday therefore is no longer about whether the lockdown should be extended, but about what the government's position is on how and when it can be eased in due course and on what criteria that decision will be taken, overcoming this crisis requires taking the British public with you.

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is too early to say we are overcoming the disease, we are still witnessing sporadic outbreaks so we cannot lower our guard.

Yoon Tae-ho

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I will tell you that my first step I take will be a step of faith, it's not as though I'm fearless. It is more about me overcoming that fear.

Dick Clark Productions

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Attractions of the Senses and the Distractions of the Mind create Pollution that has no Solution-overcoming Ignorance with self-realization.

AiR Atman in Ravi

added by AIR
4 years ago

Overcoming the loss of a loved one is difficult for anyone, just imagine how difficult is for an elder man like Carlos Armendáriz.

Antonio Basco

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Cancer's ability to adapt, evolve and become drug-resistant is the cause of the vast majority of deaths from the disease and the biggest challenge we face in overcoming it.

Paul Workman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A highly deniable attack, such as the one on the hull of the tankers, would be entirely consistent with the past four decades of Iranian security strategy, which emphasizes increasing the challenges of attribution, overcoming conventional military weaknesses, and decreasing the prospects of escalation against the Iranian homeland for regime meddling.

Ben Talebu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This image has as much to do with overcoming communism in 20th Century as Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.

Though Lee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I want to apologize. I spent my life trying to bring this story of overcoming differences and finding common ground to the screen, and I am incredibly sorry to everyone associated with' Green Book,' i especially deeply apologize to the brilliant and kind Mahershala Ali, and all members of the Muslim faith, for the hurt I have caused.

Nick Vallelonga wrote Green Book

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is not one silver bullet to overcoming the physical inactivity epidemic, our cities, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, entertainment venues and transportation systems have all been designed to promote physical inactivity.

Gregory Knell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

She lived with courage, not without fear. But overcoming her fears. She lived with faith, not without failure, but overcoming her failures. She lived with power, not without weakness, but overcoming her weaknesses, i just loved her.

President Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It isn't for everyone ; you're overcoming fear.

James Byrd

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said, liberals can't bully me ; news can't bully me ; the hip-hop community, they can't bully me. Because at that point, if I'm afraid to be me, I'm no longer Ye. That's what makes Ye. And I actually quite enjoy when people actually are mad at me about certain things.

Kanye West

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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