For the past three months, as the illness slowly overcame me, I had struggled to start a new novel.

I grew aware of my self-destructive tendencies and slowly overcame them.

With American help, Iraq's new soldiers are slowly overcoming the equipment problems, officials say.

Unions slowly overcame the legal restrictions on the right to strike.

Brill declared that after long study he had slowly overcome his disgust for homosexuality.

Japan is slowly overcoming decades of reticence about building and using military forces.

There is a large agricultural society, which is slowly overcoming much hardship.

And there was wonder in his face which was slowly overcome by an expression of purpose.

However, the good news is that you can slowly overcome this resistance over time.

She slowly overcame a lot of that resistance, she said.