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be insurmountable for
adjective
Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.
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"We've designed the financial incentives to be insurmountable for spammers," says Craig Sprosts, a director.
That amount is tiny for a millionaire but may be insurmountable for someone on a low income.
In the latter, some districts might be insurmountable for a candidate even if he is doing well statewide.
The pricey lawsuits, investor losses and reputational hits were supposed to mean the hurdles to taking public companies private — including board and management conflicts — would be insurmountable for some time.
The challenge of the new rules would be insurmountable for depressed, rural areas, where market-rate jobs are impossible to find and public work sites -- like nutrition centers and day care centers -- are not even open for a total of 40 hours a week.
Costs of just a couple dollars a month can be insurmountable for families that struggle to put food on the table each day.
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He gave up two runs in the second inning, which was insurmountable for his team's anemic offense.
But as a recent study in Scotland showed, the gap between what is ideal and what is real is insurmountable for many families.
(The staff, to its credit, was very attentive to mobility issues, essential at several stops where dauntingly high levees might have been insurmountable for some passengers otherwise).
His 11-point outburst keyed an 18-5 run and put Wisconsin in a 37-22 hole, which was insurmountable for their methodical, bare-fisted style of play.
The Conservatives have been running up to 12 percentage points behind Labour in recent national polls, a gap that has not been insurmountable for some governing parties in the past.
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