Sentence examples for could not surmount from inspiring English sources

At the moment, it appears that he may survive his scandal in the way that Nixon could not surmount his.

Capturing five division titles in their first seven seasons of NBA play, the Spurs continually made the play-offs but could not surmount the championship hurdle.

Almost three decades later, Mr. Gabreski faced a challenge he could not surmount when he tried to run the troubled Long Island Rail Road, the nation's busiest commuter line.

Withings is some way out of the initially hard part of simply getting products designed, working, made and out into the market, but it will still have to contend with keeping the business operating and growing — challenges that Nokia clearly could not surmount.

Our intensive efforts to fix appointments during the holiday periods increased moderately their participation, but could not surmount their under-representativeness in the sample.

This is also the book of someone who has never met a challenge she couldn't surmount by working harder and believing in herself.

Water vapor flowing across South America from the Atlantic couldn't surmount the mountains and fell as rain in the western Amazon.

Kanye lept and strutted, domineering but in the end couldn't surmount the fact that he just can't sing.

Kite Lake, in particular, was at the end of a deeply rutted dirt road that a car or a traditional motor home could probably not surmount.

What's more, in Virginia, Democrat Creigh Deeds was a terrible candidate, and in New Jersey, although for a while it seemed incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine might rally, his dismal popularity numbers and a whopping state deficit and unemployment rate could not be surmounted.

There was a distinct border between the host tissue and the implant that could not be surmounted by invasive cell types of the animals' subcutis, just as published recently [ 5].