Sentence examples for failed to surmount from inspiring English sources

By contrast, the Pirate Party, beloved of those who like a bit of alternative spice in their politics, failed to surmount the 5% hurdle.

Worse still, it concluded, if Europe failed to surmount its economic crisis the prize would be a "risible memory, or worse, an epitaph for what Europe could have been, should have been".

Once again — as during the 2008 financial crisis and the more recent halt in European air traffic due to volcanic ash — European leaders have failed to surmount national interests and cobble together a coherent policy quickly enough to address a problem.

The novel fails to surmount one major obstacle: the male pronoun used of the Gethenians.

Not only does the dissection of the couple's relationship – consisting of his confession of infertility, exposure of her affair and his bragging that his wife was rich – never hang together, or build to any climax, True Love utterly fails to surmount these superficial sketches to create a cohesive whole.

It is a truism that communities that do not pull together fail to surmount their challenges.

Reference centers such as the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, while providing diagnostic expertise, fail to surmount the biosafety obstacles (real and perceived) that prevent pathologists from enthusiastically performing autopsies on those who died of potential infectious diseases, including prion diseases.

Former Merck & Co. CEO Roy Vagelos told a congressional committee that the idea that the $600 million NIH effort could surmount drug development problems that industry has failed to solve was like believing "in fairies".

As writers negotiate to what extent the human will can surmount the adversity of an indifferent reality, sculptors and painters retreat from the very thought of the masterpiece--which failed to tame the barbarous impulses of nations.

But the changes failed to obscure this painful fact: one of his largest funds is down 47 percent through September, a loss that would require returns of almost 100 percent to surmount, according to investors in the fund.

It is a crisis that, at minimum, reflects the fact that the city's foster care system too often fails to adequately address and surmount the myriad problems afflicting children removed from harmful homes.