overcome an obstacle

And again he is in a familiar role, having to overcome an obstacle.

The commercials often focus on situations where a man is overcoming an obstacle in a group.

"Cross the bridge" is a metaphor for solving a problem or overcoming an obstacle.

They will be a big testament to how we stick together and overcome an obstacle, a huge obstacle.

Any time you can overcome an obstacle as serious as Hodgkin's, it shows a lot of perseverance.

Eli Steinmetz was the kind of engineer who overcame an obstacle by designing a mechanical solution and then building it with his own hands.

For the first time in his life, he felt that he had failed to overcome an obstacle and could find no other direction for his life.

"The laugh then becomes a little celebration," explains the director, "that the audience shares with a character who overcomes an obstacle, makes a connection, or satisfies a need."

For a moment she was the dirt-smeared gamin of their struggle through Elysia's sacred mountain, smiling as she did each time she overcame an obstacle.

Tony Conigliaro Award - given to a player who best overcomes an obstacle and adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination and courage.

While games might initially attract a small group of participants, as the participants come across new challenges they try to find others with the knowledge needed to overcome an obstacle.

Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's family.

Ijirashii (Japan): Arising when seeing someone praiseworthy overcome an obstacle, (Matsumoto 1994 cited in Prinz 2004: 140).

Clinton Weighs Trade Deal The White House may delay asking Congress for some negotiating powers in order to overcome an obstacle to the global trade accord.

Brian Melter, the company's manager for e-commerce, said bank-account verification would be "almost instantaneous" now that the new electronic signature law is in effect, overcoming an obstacle to same-day purchases.

It was the most important lesson I learned at the school and one replete with broader philosophical and psychological implications: to overcome an obstacle, don't try to overcome the obstacle.

One was to overcome an obstacle created Tuesday by the New York City Board of Elections, whose 10 members split along party lines and failed to certify the election returns from the city.

Also, as is common with first-person shooters, combat is interspersed with simple puzzle-solving elements which usually involve overcoming an obstacle (such as a locked door) which impedes the player's progress through the game.

And just then, as if overcoming an obstacle, the wind dumped snow from the roof of the carriage, blew some torn-off sheet of iron about, and from ahead a low train whistle howled mournfully and drearily.

It does not, for example, include the recognition by Hamas of the State of Israel, instead "recognizing that there are Jews living in the Holy Land," according to Froman, thus overcoming an obstacle that has long been a deal-breaker.

James Strachey concluded that 'indeed, she was a very formidable person'; and when in her paper on "Hate" she wrote of 'an elation which is pleasurable on overcoming an obstacle, or on getting one's own way' she may (as so often) have been rooting her comments in personal experience.