But more difficult to surmount is the ever-worsening problem of obtaining licenses to publish visual material in any medium, let alone a digital one.
And he's forced the abject chroniclers of the petty pacings of the election cycle to question what they are observing, and to wail at the seeming nonsense of a man, twice defeated, courting a third defeat amid conditions that will be even more difficult to surmount than they were the last time.
"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.
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).
Lewis looked at interaction patterns of 126,134 users on the site, and although there aren't comparable figures for Tinder, he concluded that "racial bias in assortative mating is a robust and ubiquitous social phenomenon, and one that is difficult to surmount even with small steps in the right direction.
All this did was generate a news story, in the state's largest paper, that readily informed the public of two things: Obamacare "navigators" -- that is to say, people who can be called up for assistance in "navigating" the bureaucratic elements of the exchanges -- exist, and officials in the state are working really hard to ensure that the bureaucracy remains difficult to surmount.
A confluence of factors, including heavily tenured-in departments, fewer tenure-track positions, demographic trends, and a glut of Ph.D.s looking for employment, have placed tremendous strain on junior faculty members, making the tenure barrier increasingly difficult to surmount.
Harvey argues that each major capitalist crisis has been worse than the last one, and more difficult to surmount.
First, the intrinsic uncertainty surrounding any investment project puts the borrower's ability to repay in question; second, the borrower's fragile promise to obey the contract can be more difficult to surmount.
What can be more difficult to surmount are attitudinal blocks, in that blended learning challenges the status quo and can be perceived as collapsing the integrity of the traditional academy.
