Sentence examples for surmounted on from inspiring English sources

THE first hurdle to be surmounted on Turkey's journey to Europe may well be Cyprus.

For Patrick Makau, a sometime member of Birmingham's Birchfield Harriers, and Paula Radcliffe, the pride and joy of Bedford and County Athletics Club, there were significant barriers surmounted on the streets of Berlin yesterday.

Overbye does a very nice job of explaining the conceptual and mathematical difficulties that Einstein surmounted on his way to this goal; indeed, the scientific exposition in this book is almost as racy as the biographical bits.

Four shafts of black granite, with gold eagles surmounted on them, mark the corners of the square.

Following the Commons example, the Senate then requested and obtained on 15 April 2008 a similar badge for itself with the shield of Her Majesty's Royal Arms surmounted on the mace assigned to the Senate.

The architects of the hastily constructed fiscal treaty hope to commit these countries – and Ireland, once its quaint attachment to democratic ritual has been surmounted – to legal restrictions on already negligible political control over the economy.

While Saussure and Bourrit bickered, a Chamonix doctor, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, and a local guide, Jacques Balmat, quietly surmounted Mont Blanc on Aug. 8, 1876, only to fall into their own bitter dispute about who dragged whom to the top.

The gold-enameled cross lies in a white field, and surmounted by a crown; on one side is represented the conversion of Saint Hubert, with the Gothic legend In trau vast (firm in fidelity).

Contemporary Byzantine influence seems to have been at work on other architectural elements at Bāwīṭ, as, for example, in the finely carved limestone pilaster depicting, on one side, a geometric and floral pattern surmounted by a saint and, on the other, vine scrolls and birds below an archangel.

He and his campaign have been able to do a tremendous job in surmounting attacks on his character and inconsistencies".

The architects gave the building a distinctive central tower on Broadway, surmounted by four crouching male figures supporting a giant bronze globe.