Sentence examples for surmount with a from inspiring English sources

This is one hurdle you can easily surmount with a little studying.

They passed the cardinal's mortal remains in a coffin draped in a white pall — symbol of the joy of resurrection — and surmounted with a gold crucifix.

The backs of chairs were still panelled and decorated with carving and inlay or surmounted with a wide and richly carved cresting.

Its holder is appointed by royal letters patent, and his title is derived from his staff of office, an ebony stick surmounted with a gold lion.

This must be surmounted with a serious dose of pride and an awareness that, as Condou said, "role models really make a difference".

The exhibition will begin with a recreation of an Indian royal procession with a life-sized model elephant adorned with animal jewellery, textiles and trappings, and surmounted with a silver howdah.

I stood in front of the Dutch seventeenth-century nautilus cup — a pearly shell the size of a softball, surmounted with a golden Neptune riding a whale, out of whose mouth Jonah emerges (must not have been against the rules to mix mythologies).

Representations, especially of the pharaohs, show a new synthesis of Nubian and Egyptian forms with the introduction of elements such as Nubian facial features and Kushite royal regalia, including the cap surmounted with two sacred serpents that replaced the Egyptian White Crown surmounted with a single serpent.

Two huge granite lions, taken from the gardens of the Mellon Mansion, stand guard at the main entrance of the school and the door is surmounted with a terracotta Madonna by Della Robbia.

Some examples contain drawers at the base; others have three sides of the upper shelf surmounted with an ornamental board.

There are still some hurdles to surmount with regards to violence and getting higher than a motherfucker, but things definitely done changed.