Sentence examples for surmount in from inspiring English sources

South had now reached a game that was unbeatable after the normal lead of the spade queen, but he had a hurdle to surmount in the play.

The problem of individually designing some 3,000 symbols, some of them of incredible complexity, is not one that many designers are able to surmount in a lifetime.

Still, the refusal of a majority of the Security Council to go along has created two large obstacles -- one political, one legal -- that Mr. Bush has vowed to surmount in the next day.

Being from Queens is not the only handicap he has had to surmount in his rise through the ranks of Texas journalism: he has been a vegetarian for nearly twenty-five years.

"Businesses like those provisions that reduce the hurdle rate that you have to surmount in order to make an investment — like an employee — a profitable investment," said Robert Willens, president of a tax and accounting advisory firm in New York.

Xinhua, the government news agency, described the challenge last month as an "international cultural competition," in which controlling the world stage is one more hurdle to surmount in a triathlon toward global greatness.

A number of technological barriers have to be surmounted in order to make advanced structural ceramics an everyday reality.

The Banda Sea is divided into two basins separated by a ridge that is surmounted in places by coral reefs.

The new drive, which is the size of a book of matches, is a milestone in the evolution of magnetic storage, executives said, because it surpasses the same one-gigabyte barrier the company's original refrigerator-sized 3380 hard drive surmounted in 1980's.

You're essentially saying to whoever it may be that, despite the fact you don't know each other and never will, you are willing to spend a few moments talking pointlessly at one another to indicate that you regard each other as more than just another obstacle to be surmounted in your separate scrabbles for professional advancement.

The new drive, which is the size of a book of matches, is a milestone in the evolution of magnetic storage, I.B.M. executives said, because it surpasses the same one-gigabyte barrier the company's original refrigerator-sized 3380 hard drive surmounted in the 1980's.