Sentence examples for surmounted them from inspiring English sources

Soaring summits, vast spaces, sprawling glaciers, breathtaking crevasses, awesome ice falls and the people who surmounted them were all grist for Sella's picture-making, which produced important scientific and documentary information as well as images of great aesthetic quality.

This is what the Lincoln buffs and the F.D.R. boosters see when they hark back to 1861 and 1933, moments when earlier generations of Americans faced existential tests and ultimately surmounted them.

Like Uber, Airbnb has seen its share of regulatory hijinks (and surmounted them), and it has even had to make more direct efforts to dissuade people from taking business to competitors.

Then again, the law has often met obstacles that appeared insurmountable, before soon surmounting them.

Big obstacles remain, and diplomats privately acknowledge the long odds against surmounting them.

But with each new generation of technology, the obstacles have grown more imposing, and the cost of surmounting them is going up, not down.

Who but a solicitor would have the plodding nerve to surmount them with Jesus, Moses and Solomon, while the poor litigants are immortalised as a fighting dog and cat.

The historian's task is to recognize this truth, figure out what problems are inherent to each form of evidence, and find ways, if possible, to surmount them.

Heedless of such concerns, or confident of surmounting them, she has written "American Lulu," now in its world première at the Komische Oper in Berlin.

"The language throughout the report conveys the idea that environmental protections equal impediments and we have to find a way to surmount them," Mr. Alberswerth said.

This, of course, is Wainwright's specialist subject – the extraordinary things ordinary people face and the courage it takes to surmount them.