Sentence examples for not surmount from inspiring English sources

At the moment, it appears that he may survive his scandal in the way that Nixon could not surmount his.

Capturing five division titles in their first seven seasons of NBA play, the Spurs continually made the play-offs but could not surmount the championship hurdle.

Kite Lake, in particular, was at the end of a deeply rutted dirt road that a car or a traditional motor home could probably not surmount.

In the autumn, Mr. Callaghan's most difficult legislative hurdle, which some think his Government trill not surmount, will be the so-called devolution proposals, to give Scotland and Wales partial self-government.

Almost three decades later, Mr. Gabreski faced a challenge he could not surmount when he tried to run the troubled Long Island Rail Road, the nation's busiest commuter line.

Our study makes two main observations: First, it suggests that CMS, when applied topically to murine skin in vivo, accumulate in the stratum corneum but do not surmount this barrier to penetrate into the viable epidermis or beyond.

He told McClellan, by "going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting near Manassas you are only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty".

However, if the obstacles that stand in the way of a political agreement with the Palestinians are not surmounted pretty soon, the vacuum in policy could have even uglier consequences.

These ciliated cells are not surmounted by an otolithic mass or a cupula, but some of the cilia are attached either directly or indirectly to a tectorial membrane (a membrane with one edge fixed to a stationary base, thus anchoring the cilia) or to an inertia body (a mass lying over the ciliated cells and restraining the movements of the cilia).

The Democrats' change in view in less than two years might have resulted from disappointment over the fact that President Obama's appointments of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in 2009 and 2010 have not surmounted the conservatism tenor set after President George W. Bush's appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.

The irony — and tragedy — is that students who don't surmount these hurdles now fall even further.