Overcoming

Examples

• We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the overcoming of difficulties he has the same intellectual pleasure as the chess-master when confronted with a problem requiring all the efforts of his skill and experience to solve. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In some cases, by relieving pain, they give the system the rest necessary for overcoming the cause of the pain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is occasioned by an unsettlement and it aims at overcoming a disturbance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To produce such a house involved the overcoming of many engineering and other technical difficulties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The only way of overcoming this difficulty was to have the answer brought to us from the lawyer's office by a special messenger. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This is because water, in flowing from place to place, expends force in overcoming the friction of the pipes and the resistance of the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It had been his own idea to wear that touch of powder, and I had conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He worked all that winter, meeting the many practical difficulties that arose as he progressed with his machine, and devising solutions for overcoming each. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• T HOMAS AQUINAS OVERCOMING AVERRO?S] The English Franciscan Roger Bacon (1214-12 94) deserves to be m entioned with the two great Dominicans. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is easy to see that the closer the threads and the smaller the pitch, the greater the advantage of the screw, and hence the less force needed in overcoming resistance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The heat developed in overcoming the resistance is so great that it makes the filament a glowing mass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Man’s natural dislike for manual labor quickly found objection to the physical effort of bicycle travel, and accordingly sought to devise mechanical means of overcoming it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After overcoming this difficulty, they marched in a body to the Tuileries. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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