"The soft stops" — meaning the more surmountable obstacles — "were that they didn't have the right equipment or lighting, that they have to use a cellphone to light the surgical field.
Katrina also revealed to the rest of America the crippling triple-shot of corrupt local politicians, federal indifference and one criminally inept organization called Fema that turned surmountable obstacles into grim fatalities.
The more important question is not whether race is a factor in people's votes but whether it is a determinative factor — that is, whether Obama's being black is the disqualifying fact for white voters that it might have been 20 years ago or whether it has now been reduced to one of those surmountable obstacles that any candidate has to overcome.
Children experience attempts to shape their patterns of work and mobility as a series of surmountable obstacles, disconnected from the process of deciding whether or not they will engage in this work.
It is also an acknowledgment of a long road ahead, filled with unpredictable, but surmountable, obstacles.
Nonetheless, we note that technology applications that face surmountable obstacles may be related to animal health.
In conclusion, our focus group discussions revealed specific, surmountable obstacles to widespread uptake of MC among traditionally non-circumcising Christians in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kashmir's pro-Indian state government meanwhile says it will hold local elections this month, an attempt, say the separatists, to scuttle the peace process.What makes these obstacles surmountable is that the three main participants want the process to begin.
But that obstacle is surmountable, considering the trek to the tribal college, on the remote Flathead Indian reservation.
For an artist like Koons, whose vast ambition and ruinous needs have severely strained the resources of several dealers and nearly bankrupted him, this obstacle seemed surmountable.
