Sentence examples for difficult to surmount from inspiring English sources

One major obstacle the school discovered, and one that is difficult to surmount, is timing.

Sometimes, of course, this is because of obstacles that are difficult to surmount – long distances, or family estrangements.

Harvey argues that each major capitalist crisis has been worse than the last one, and more difficult to surmount.

Their elation was to be short-lived as the step up in quality proved difficult to surmount.

Several others proved too controversial to work through in a few months (e.g. middle class flat tax) or presented legal/other hurdles that we decided were too difficult to surmount (e.g. Reform Authority and the special interests tax).

"Of the many obstacles that stand in the way of a first book as it makes its precarious way into the world and into its readers hands," he explained, "fear is often the biggest and the most difficult to surmount.

The drone had demonstrated it could take off from a carrier during testing in May, but the landing was considered the most difficult obstacle to surmount given the confined space on the ship and unpredictable conditions at sea.

There will be very difficult issues to surmount after a conflict that has left hundreds of thousands of casualties on all sides, including government forces, insurgents and civilians.

As boards are overwhelmingly male-dominated, women face a difficult obstacle to surmount.

Of course, like just about any system ever put forward in artificial intelligence, the program faces the difficult-to-surmount challenge known as scale-up: what works in a few levels on a simple, older game system almost certainly won't work on larger ones.

The result is hardened bipartisan consensus in Washington against any effort to warm relations with Moscow — a barrier that would prove difficult for Trump to surmount at home, in addition to the challenges he would face striking deals with Putin on a range of disputes overseas.