Sentence examples for close to insurmountable from inspiring English sources

José María Olazábal has sufficient experience in this competition not to panic at a two-point deficit, or to regard it as anything close to insurmountable.

Add to that a mindset of entitlement among many Saudi young people and low productivity, and the challenges seem close to insurmountable.

The Republican advantage in the House is modest — just two hundred and twenty-nine seats to two hundred and six — but gerrymandering has made the lead close to insurmountable for the foreseeable future.

That disparity has fed optimism among Mr. Kerry's advisers, who say the delegate lead is becoming close to insurmountable, since delegates are apportioned based on the vote each candidate receives, rather than winner-take-all.

The Republican advantage in the House is modest just two hundred and twenty-nine seats to two hundred and six but gerrymandering has made the lead close to insurmountable for the foreseeable future.

This paper aims at proposing that the so widely proclaimed advantages of e-learning to bridge distances, different learning paces and cognitive styles, is at the same time producing close to insurmountable barriers to students with cognitive disabilities in general, and dyslexia specifically.

I have something close to an insurmountable fascination when it comes to Isabelle's character.

And because of the enormous scale, geographic breadth, and the level of development of the country as a whole, the collection of sound economic data at the market level where they matter most--is close to an insurmountable task.

More recently the two sides have suggested that the fee issue is either close to being resolved or that the differences are not insurmountable.

In a race that's been too close to call since election day, Vista Republican Rep. Darrell Issa appears to have built an insurmountable lead in his bid for reelection over Democratic challenger Doug Applegate.

It is not insurmountable: Johnson came back from 29 points down after two races in the Chase to close to 4 behind Edwards going into Charlotte.