That which slightly overtakes us is also, because of our own agency, because of the clinamen of our own action, itself slightly overtaken, modified.
As 'the period of persuasion' was overtaken in 1933 by the 'period of deterrence' (pp. 80, 88), the background weakness continues.
Thematic polarities were gradually overtaken by archival-based studies of groups and individuals.
But this prosaic purpose was very quickly overtaken by subjective elements, by domestic events, emotions and illnesses.
For the hopes of professional geological consultants were overtaken by the reformation and revitalization of the gentlemanly amateur tradition.
This is the first time that the fertility rate for this age group has overtaken that of women aged 25-29.
The traditional warden role has been overtaken by technology.
Some disaster would seem to have overtaken the party, possibly carbon monoxide poisoning in an ill-ventilated tent.
