But it also isn't necessarily an insurmountable deficit.
The Liberty trailed by 4 points at the half, not an insurmountable deficit.
He gave up two runs in the second inning, an insurmountable deficit for his team's anemic offense.
He lasted just three innings and created an insurmountable deficit for the Mets, who lost, 8-3.
There was no way the Utah Jazz, renown for its meticulous execution, would depart the Izod Center without molding some type of comeback from a seemingly insurmountable deficit.
Frank Reich, who was filling in for Kelly, said that when the Bills were facing the seemingly insurmountable deficit, a teammate reminded him that when Reich was in college, he led Maryland back from 31 points down to beat Miami.
For Craybas, a feeling of escaping an almost insurmountable deficit, which spurs confidence and optimism; for Keys, a feeling that finishing off this opponent just got a lot tougher.
Despite a staggering series of injuries -- the most recent to their goaltender, Brian Boucher -- the Flyers are getting the kind of breaks that Resch, among others, said they needed to overcome what once looked like an insurmountable deficit.
