Sentence examples for I could surmount from inspiring English sources

Although pursuing an academic career would have its many challenges, I knew the character of the obstacles and felt confident that I could surmount them.

Luce's success story would be sheer romance if it could surmount one basic problem: Luce himself.

Both companies used to be based in America but moved their registered offices to European countries to take advantage of lower corporate tax.FedEx was confident that it could surmount any competition concerns in Europe over its $4.8 billion bid for TNT Express, a delivery company based in the Netherlands that has operations in 40 countries.

Robert Stephenson had thought 1 percent was the steepest grade a locomotive could surmount.

But even if they could surmount Republicans opposition, Senate and House Democrats have yet to bridge the differences between their bills.

If the Arab world could surmount this impediment, as Egypt and Jordan have done, then there might be the prospect for real peace in the Middle East.

Candidates in those races went to great lengths to ensure that their supporters could surmount the extraordinary obstacles to voting this year.

Shrugging off the political storms that have included calls for his own resignation, he said that Mr. Obama still could surmount partisan divisions and act, despite sagging political power.

A second certainty is that "employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive".… Time was, American businesses could surmount such regulatory officiousness.

Some Democrats say Mr. Bowles might be one of the few people who could surmount the opposition of Senate Republicans, given his good relations with some of them after his work on the bipartisan fiscal commission.

If approved, the agreement could surmount a stubborn hurdle to talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which began with much fanfare in Washington in early September but soon ran aground after Israel's 10-month partial moratorium on settlement construction expired later that month.