Sentence examples for insurmountable bar from inspiring English sources

Nor should Mr Putin's continued blocking of UN Security Council resolutions authorising intervention in Syria be treated as an insurmountable bar to action, any more than it was in Kosovo in 1999.

In a decisive 6-to-3 ruling, the court reaffirmed the constitutionality of campaign contribution limits and exposed the emptiness of claims that the First Amendment presents an insurmountable bar to meaningful action by lawmakers to restrict the corrupting flow of money into campaigns.

In her analysis of the failure of the 2009 climate bill, Harvard professor Theda Skocpol said, "The failure of the 2009-10 pushcy push for cap and trade legislation was, in one respect, quite unsurprising -- attributable (in political science 101 terms) to Senate rules setting an insurmountable 60-vote bar".

This sort of basic "change your environment" approach is all the more important when we realize that urges--the sudden desire for a soda or a candy bar - -may seem insurmountable at the time, but actually pass after just a few minutes.

"It took guts, bravery and vision to get behind what must have seemed like an insurmountable task — taking on the powerful trial bar," said Mr. Donohue, the chief executive of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

The insurmountable is linked to the eternal, a high bar for those who govern today, especially those seeking theocratic legitimacy.

McGill, who runs Two for the Pot, a nearby coffee-and-tea store, wrote on the official standings kept behind the bar, "The King of Produce will have an insurmountable lead if U.N.C. beats Villanova in the semis".

Federal prosecutors have moved to retry both cases, but the bar for proving corruption has, so far, proved insurmountable.

Where their roots are deep, state news media create an almost insurmountable obstacle for civil society and political opposition groups by barring them from communicating with mass audiences.

The bar for a trial is necessarily set high and can be insurmountable.

We cannot set a bar that is too high and doomed to fail because the TJCHA will encounter insurmountable resistance from the hospitals.