Sentences with phrase «overtaken by»

Word count restrictions have been overtaken by ebook shorts and long - form digital journalism like Kindle Singles and Atavist.

As happens to all good things, the movement was quickly overtaken by the virus of skepticism, victim blaming, cries of attention whoring, and more.

When her second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her family's fragile peace is once again overtaken by loss.

It's leagues ahead of all others (except for The Mad Ship, also by Hobb, which was recently my favourite book... overtaken by another Hobb book!)

From the very first page, the Marvel Universe has been overtaken by Ultron.

She stutters terribly, except for the times when she's overtaken by a persona that her sister derogatorily named Mimic, who can perfectly imitate any voice.

Eventually get overtaken by the hot new app?

After starting second in the GT class, Gavin held his position through the first 14 laps before he was overtaken by the No. 55 BMW.

Cars like the RS 4 Avant, M5 Touring and today, the Clubman Cooper S, ooze an aura of unconventionality that ably demonstrate: 1) the owners are not afraid to take a walk off the beaten path and 2) there are few things as humiliating as being brutally shredded up and overtaken by a V8 estate that seems to be hauling a trunk - full of dogs as it disappears into the horizon.

The Volvo S80 for 2016 is an aging design quickly being overtaken by newer luxury models.

Released in 2012, the Cee'd hatch and estate range has been overtaken by several newer competitors, including the Seat Leon, Mazda 3 and facelifted Ford Focus.

Chevrolet, whose Blazers have been overtaken by the more popular Ford Explorer and Jeep Grand Cherokee, is scrambling to regain its dominance in the lucrative sport - utility market.Chevy is accelerating plans to update the compact S - Blazer while also working on a larger, four - door version of the full - size Blazer.

Among GM makes, at least, the era of bigness was fading into history, overtaken by a new age of efficiency and economy.

Many Toyota's are getting outdated and will be overtaken by various Hyundai's, Honda's models (and many others) unless Toyota hires new designers and drops their outdated 4 - speed transmission etc?

The 1982 12A - turbo Cosmo coupé was officially the fastest production car in Japan until being overtaken by the FJ20ET powered R30 Skyline RS.

The Corolla / Matrix (+4 %) looks like it is about to be overtaken by the surging, expanded Prius line (+40 %).

The Honda CR - V has been overtaken by none other than the Toyota RAV4, which has steadily climbed its way to the top three in the past couple months.

We was overtaken by the concern and willingness to help.

The idea of «preparing excellent teachers who are excellent in their subject,» she says, has been overtaken by other concerns — «professors wanting to be respected in the university, and teachers» colleges wanting to become places where research is done and to be agents of transformational change.»

«Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world,» the National Commission on Excellence in Education said in «A Nation at Risk.»

Studies indicate that by their fifth birthday many of the highest early achievers from deprived backgrounds have been overtaken by lower achieving children from advantaged backgrounds.

That timetable, in turn, seems to have been overtaken by Scott's action.

But that burst of enthusiasm was overtaken by new demands.

There she saw, where others could only see a terrifying mass of poison ivy, a garden that for decades had been overtaken by weeds.

«I'm not entirely convinced that the printed book is going to disappear forever and be overtaken by the digital version,» Izard says.

But origins are overtaken by subsequent events, and in a changing society they do not maintain the same role they played in shaping it.

In fact, while the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York poses the question of adequacy with characteristically New York bluntness and extravagance, many wonder if the case hasn't become a victim of those excesses and, during the 12 - year brawl over the merits of linking financial input with academic output, been overtaken by events.

Interestingly, a majority of the NRA's members reported in a poll last year that they felt that their organisation had been «overtaken by lobbyists» and that it had «lost its original purpose and mission».

In fact, the Catholic school system was launched by prelates worried that the public system had been overtaken by Protestants — and was out to get them.

Back in 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a dire warning: The United States» «once unchallenged pre-eminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.»

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

U.S. schools, once the envy of the world, had been overtaken by competitors abroad.

But in both of those cases, we had a clearly established frontrunner (The Revenant in 2015; La La Land in 2016) that got overtaken by a stalking horse.

Though to be honest, I think Mieville's work will age better (SNOW CRASH and even CRYPTONOMICON, awesome though they are, are getting overtaken by reality faaaaast...).

Once Frances arrives in Italy, she is overtaken by the beauty of Tuscany and impulsively buys a rundown villa.

If the Tower is overtaken by an opponent, it will reverse direction.

Far Cry comes to America, as the locals of Hope County, Montana have been overtaken by an anti-government militant group.

She came closest to winning two years ago, when her Lady Gaga song «Til It Happens to You» (from the documentary The Hunting Ground) was poised to win, only to be overtaken by the Sam Smith - warbled «Writing's On the Wall» from Spectre.

They don't seem to sympathize with one of Birdman's thematic laments: that Hollywood is being overtaken by Superhero movies.

This shocking moment of fratricide leads to their house being overtaken by a funeral party of black - clad strangers (during which Pfeiffer upbraids ill - prepared Lawrence for her casual, lighter - colored house clothes), which gradually erupts into a squalid bacchanalia of bad behavior that only our star seems to find inappropriate, culminating in some major destruction to the kitchen before the suddenly giddy mourners flee back into the night.

Frank (Shannon) is a gifted Las Vegas chef currently facing unemployment after his restaurant is overtaken by new owners.

The passionate vote for Silver Linings might be overtaken by the passionate vote for Argo and the group overall will prefer Lincoln, I figure.

The movie opens with a knockout action sequence, set aboard a space station that's been overtaken by a gargantuan lab rat.

OK, I guess there was some mid-credits sequence when their ship was overtaken by a bigger ship.

In short, the procedural and thematic elements get overtaken by decisions that heighten the drama, rendering impotent any ideas the film presents.

The cast, some re-creating their roles from the first film (Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King), and some new characters (played by Ray Liotta, Lady GaGa, Christopher Meloni, Christopher Lloyd, Joseph Gordon - Levitt and more), are all great, exhaling the hopelessness and desperation of living in a city overtaken by sin.

A lot — especially when the backdrop is a gritty - to - the - touch Tinseltown (captured by veteran cinematographer Philippe Rousselot in earthy colors) drowning in orange smog and overtaken by the golden age of porn.

The scene embodies two principles that would become standard in horror movies: it's vaguely postmodern, calling attention to the movie itself as part of a cinematic tradition, and it shows how quickly laughter can be overtaken by terror.

They begin to notice that the town is acting peculiarly, only to come to the conclusion (in a wild bathroom fight that King instigates) that the population has been overtaken by robots «filled with blue stuff».

It's way too soon to measure box office but we already know that Gone Girl is the champ now but will likely be overtaken by Interstellar.