Sentence examples for hard to surmount from inspiring English sources
Cultural barriers (attitudes to hierarchy and the role of connections, for example) will be hard to surmount.
But trade experts warn that political pressure favoring restrictions, if not outright protectionism, will be hard to surmount.
"It is hard to surmount the turf battles and prerogatives and jurisdictional disputes, but in the end we did," said Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel.
Physicians who perform transplants say patients who need organ donations from a family member or other close match outside the United States face hurdles that are often hard to surmount.
This fall, the Democrats are looking far more than usual to organized labor's ground troops and money to save embattled Democratic candidates, but labor's vaunted political clout may fail to deliver — partly because so many union members and retirees, like Mr. Turosky, are angry about the economy, and partly because unions are finding it hard to surmount a deluge of Republican campaign ads.
He says: "Corus in Europe is financially a separate entity from the main Tata Steel, India, and they are working very hard to surmount the present global financial climate".
The first and hardest to surmount is historical.
Although Romney has evidently led an uneventful private life, he is trying to forcibly reinvent himself from his incarnation as a Massachusetts governor who favored abortion rights and gay rights — almost as hard a history to surmount in the G.O.P. as the multiple marriages and divorces of McCain, Giuliani, and Newt Gingrich.
It's the very power of his mind that renders those boundaries all the harder for him to surmount or pierce.
