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2005 American League Championship Series

Paul Konerko's two-run homer in the first inning provided a Chicago lead that the Angels could never overcome, despite a two-run home run by Orlando Cabrera in the sixth, as the White Sox took the series lead, two games to one, with Jon Garland pitching a complete game.

Ability Online

The site was founded in 1991 by Dr. Arlette Lefebvre (aka "Dr. Froggie") from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, and Brian Hillis with the goal of helping to inspire children to feel good about themselves, to understand that there are others who have faced (and overcome) similar challenges, and to provide the social networks and skills required to help them integrate more fully into their communities.

Andronikos III Palaiologos

To overcome his failure to secure gains against the Serbians, Andronikos III attempted to annex Bulgarian Thrace, but the new tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria defeated Byzantine forces at Battle of Rusokastro on 18 July 1332.

Ascended master

The concept of recognizing the spiritual self, one's own psychological and karma battles and how to overcome them, and eventual Ascension of all humanity is covered in James Redfield's Celestine Prophecy and its sequels, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision and The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight.

Ayala Truelove

After plucking up the courage to take the lesson, Ayala was able to overcome her own fear of flying: "After that first flight I wasn’t afraid any longer. I joined the gliding club at my university, and soon I had fallen in love with the sport."

Biodiesel

Attempts to overcome these problems included heating of the vegetable oil, blending it with petroleum-derived diesel fuel or ethanol, pyrolysis and cracking of the oils.

Bodo Illgner

In the semifinal, Illgner saved a Stuart Pearce shot in the penalty shootout against England, and West Germany would overcome Argentina in the deciding game, where he would keep a clean sheet (1–0).

Charles Freer Andrews

The ex-indentured labourers and their descendents wanted him to help them overcome a new type of 'slavery', by which they were bound to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, which controlled all aspects of their lives.

Chris Waddell

On May 5, 2010 Chris Waddell was named the 2010 Shining Star of Perseverance Honoree by the WillReturn Council of Assurant Employee Benefits to honor and recognize individuals and groups who overcome disabilities to succeed in the workplace and society.

Coulomb barrier

The Coulomb barrier, named after Coulomb's law, which is named after physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806), is the energy barrier due to electrostatic interaction that two nuclei need to overcome so they can get close enough to undergo a nuclear reaction.

Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

Both strongly influenced by the ideals of The Enlightenment, they aimed to overcome the formal garden concept of the Baroque era in favour of a naturalistic landscape as they had seen at Stourhead Gardens and Ermenonville.

Douglas Dragonfly

Aiming to overcome the outdated image, designers were commissioned from the Reynolds Tube Company to develop a completely new open duplex frame of welded tubing, including a swinging arm with twin Girling dampers (state of the art for the time) with leading link front suspension.

Eleni Tzoka

She was honoured for that act of mercy in 1999 with the Saint Rita of Cascia prize, which is awarded yearly to women of different religious beliefs who have overcome a tragic event in their lives.

Export

We already can see how important E-commerce is for marketing growth among exporters companies in emerging economies, in order to overcome capital and infrastructure barriers.

Francisco Aguilar Fernández

He also appeared the full 90 minutes in the second match of the 1974 Intercontinental Cup against Club Atlético Independiente, helping the hosts win it 2–0 and overcome the 0–1 first-leg deficit to conquer the tournament.

German idealism

George Santayana had strongly–held opinions regarding this attempt to overcome the effects of Kant's transcendental idealism.

Goal Dreams

With players of multiple nationalities, speaking different languages and without a home field, the Palestine national football team and its players must overcome obstacles of a physical, emotional, cultural and geographic nature just to exist.

Government Post Graduate College, Swabi

To overcome the difficulties of the students of Swabi, the government of West Pakistan opened an Inter College in 1962, which was later on upgraded to degree level in 1964.

Haumai

Haumai is the self-centeredness (ego or Ahankar) of a human, which can only be overcome through meditation on God’s name (Naam), Simran and Sewa in Sikhism.

Hypercomplex cell

Otto Creutzfeldt amended the circuitry architecture by noting that synaptic excitation may be required to overcome a direct inhibitory input by adjacent neurons.

Illya Darling

Attendance was fueled by the star wattage provided by Melina Mercouri in the title role (who was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance and had starred in the film), which managed to overcome the mostly lukewarm to negative reviews.

Interpreter of Maladies

In this story, the obstacles and hardships that the protagonist must overcome are much more tangible, such as learning to stomach a diet of cornflakes and bananas, or boarding in a cramped YMCA.

Isidor Barndt

Archpriest Isidor Barndt (1816-1891), a poet and world traveler from Neisse, Germany, a town in the former state of Silesia, now Nysa, Poland, promoted reunionism and wrote about similarities in faiths in order to overcome splits between Protestants and Catholics in late 19th century Germany.

Jake's Thing

The novel follows the life of Jacques 'Jake' Richardson, a fifty-nine-year-old Oxford don who struggles to overcome the loss of his 'libido'.

Jeremiah Jordan

In 1880 he joined the Land League and helped to secure extensive Protestant support for it in Fermanagh by arguing that it was a law-abiding body whose principal aim was to help Gladstone and Bright overcome resistance to further land reform.

Joel Barlow

He was caught up in the famous retreat of the French army; and, overcome by exposure, died at the Polish village of Żarnowiec.

Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense

As a series of still photographs pass into view, author Jose Chung describes the life of Juggernaut Onan Goopta, who went to college hoping to become a famous neuroscientist and instead was overcome by dementia and institutionalized.

Leonid Artamonov

Artamonov as one of Russian officers of volunteers attached to the forces of Ras Tessema moving up to the White Nile, he joined the expedition of Ethiopian army of having very serious problems to real help to overcome difficulties.

Manuel Cepeda Vargas

While imprisoned in La Modelo, he wrote the poetry book Vencerás Marquetalia ("You will overcome Marquetalia"), a tribute to the Marquetalia Republic.

Marie Killilea

It detailed Karen Killilea's struggle to overcome the limitations of her cerebral palsy and her family's fight to help her lead a satisfying life.

Mexican-American women in the U.S. from 1900–60

LULAC was founded to overcome discrimination and segregation amongst Latinos after the Mexican War, in which many Mexicans became citizens of the United States but still found themselves victims to prejudice.

Monique Ilboudo

Trying to overcome her complex and return to normal life, she and her husband visit the memorial site at Murambi.

No Comebacks

He hires a foreign hit-man to travel to Southern Spain and overcome the obstacle with an unforeseen outcome.

Our Cancer Year

Published in 1994 by the New York Press publisher Four Walls Eight Windows, Our Cancer Year (an offshoot of the cult favorite comic book series American Splendor) relates the story of Harvey's struggle to overcome cancer, as well as serving as a social commentary on events of that year.

Pelecaniformes

To overcome this confusion, it has been proposed to merge the "core" Pelecaniformes into the Ciconiiformes.

Propulsion

In terrestrial environments gravity must be overcome, though the drag of air is much less of an issue.

Randall Wright

Wright and Ricardo Lagos (2005) attempt to overcome this shortcoming by proposing a more general, yet still tractable, framework for the analysis of monetary policy.

Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829

To overcome the vehement opposition of both the House of Lords and King George IV, the Duke of Wellington worked tirelessly to ensure passage in the House of Lords, and threatened to resign as Prime Minister if the King did not give Royal Assent.

Ronan Hardiman

The track "Ancient Lands" from Anthem was used by the 2002 Olympic men's figure skating champion, Alexei Yagudin, in his program "Overcome".

Rutland House

The reason for Rutland House being used rather than a conventional theatre was to overcome the laws of censorship which operated in all public places following the closures of all public theatres by the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell.

Sayaka Hirano

At the 2012 London Olympics Women's Team Event semi-finals, she helped Japan overcome Singapore to reach their first historic finals by winning her Double's match with Kasumi Ishikawa over Wang Yuegu and Li Jiawei (11-3, 13-11 and 11-4).

Staatsbank

In order to overcome this obvious disincentive to compliance with the internal foreign exchange rate regime, the State Bank allowed hard currency to be exchanged for Forum checks – a form of internal currency that (crucially) could be spent at an Intershop.

Synergetics

Tensegrity, the use of internal forces to overcome external forces, as in a self-supporting sculpture.

Venturi Transport Protocol

The protocol is employed by various wireless broadband internet service providers such as Verizon Wireless and Unwired (Unwired calls the Venturi Client application that provides transparent VTP connectivity the Unwired Optimizer) in order to speed up their network and to overcome latency issues.

Video Chess

For example, Atari had to overcome sprite limitations; the Atari 2600 was only capable of displaying three sprites in a row, or six (such as in Space Invaders) with the right programming.

W. Clement Stone

He devoured the Horatio Alger stories, where poor boys overcome adversity to make good.

Xi'an Incident

Thus, on 14 December 1936, Madam Chiang sent her Australian adviser, William Henry Donald, who had previously been Zhang’s adviser (and had helped him overcome opium addiction), to Xi'an for negotiation.

Young Algerians

In an attempt to overcome this, the Young Algerians gained the support of the popular Khaled ibn Hashimi ibn Hajj Abd al Qadir, the grandson of Abd al Qadir, the resistance fighter of the 1830s.

Zig Zag Girl

Some of these issues are overcome in Modern Art, an illusion created by Jim Steinmeyer.


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