Sentence examples for surmount formidable obstacles from inspiring English sources

To complete the fairytale, Mr Blunkett would need to surmount formidable obstacles.

The court's 8-to-7 decision focused not on admissions policies per se but on the fact that the process by which the ban was approved — the referendum leading to a constitutional amendment — would inevitably require people who wished to reverse it "to surmount more formidable obstacles than those faced by other groups to achieve their political objectives".

And sometimes, when I'm reluctant to go to my desk, when I'm too pole-axed by fears to allow myself to surmount the not especially formidable obstacles I've placed between myself and my work, I recite a couplet William Blake wrote to get himself going: If Blake could do this when he sat down to shite, Think what he might do if he sat down to write.

Reforms along these lines were gradually introduced, but some formidable obstacles proved impossible to surmount.

They face formidable obstacles.

These are formidable obstacles.

But formidable obstacles remain.

But investigators faced formidable obstacles.

Mr. Li faces formidable obstacles.

There were formidable obstacles.

Mr. Bloomberg faces formidable obstacles.