"surmount hurdles" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
Generally speaking, it means to overcome, or to move past, a difficult situation or challenge. For example, "We had to surmount numerous hurdles in order to make our project a success."
After encouraging 346 research groups last year to seek grants for surmounting hurdles to harnessing solar power, the Energy Department this year ended up awarding $22.7 million over three years to 27 projects — hardly the stuff of an energy revolution, several scientists said.
Still, even those whose rental side business might surmount legal hurdles were skittish about being identified.
The irony — and tragedy — is that students who don't surmount these hurdles now fall even further.
Before contemplating the economics, however, enthusiasts for such an approach must first surmount three hurdles that opponents claim are insurmountable: safety, storage and supply.
And each would bring new strengths to the other: Dresdner is stronger in investment banking; Commerzbank is better in online finance.But a deal would have to surmount several hurdles.
To build it, the group has teamed up with the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to women's housing issues, although the project must still surmount major hurdles, from finding a site to securing financing.
But as affidavits filed in the federal court case by New York University Law School's Brennan Center usefully document, outsider candidates like Mr. McCain must surmount tremendous hurdles just to file petitions in the first place.
Mr. Kruger had been under investigation by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn who were looking into accusations that he had helped businessmen surmount bureaucratic hurdles in exchange for assistance raising campaign money, but the charges stemmed from an investigation by Manhattan federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The PMBD, a wily grouping of regional barons that is the PT's main partner, will probably try to take advantage of her inexperience to satisfy its appetite for pork and spendthrift ministries, even though it lost seats in the election.The man who could help her surmount these hurdles is Lula himself.
