Sentence examples for surmounts from inspiring English sources

MM Idea: The Inye computer tablet that can connect to the internet via a dongle surmounts the price and infrastructure barriers in one go.

Nor, it is fairly safe to say, was he nearly so glum when he rose at 5.30am to discover that he would, after all, be working with George Bush for another four years (always assuming Mr Blair surmounts the little hurdle of his own re-election).

But it has become clear that for every obstacle the government painstakingly surmounts, Argentina's Congress and its courts are capable of erecting another one.

A huge dome surmounts the palace.

In the earliest English coronation ritual, dating back more than 1,000 years, the king was invested with a helmet instead of a crown, and a helmet with an ornamental frame surmounts the unwarlike head of Edward the Confessor on his great seal.

In 590 Pope Gregory the Great, conducting a penitential procession to pray for the end of a plague, had a vision of the archangel Michael sheathing his sword over the castle, signifying the end of the plague; from that incident came the structure's modern name and the marble statue of the archangel that surmounts the building.

They may have been surmounted by a wooden palisade but no excavation has provided proof of this.

The PMBD, a wily grouping of regional barons that is the PT's main partner, will probably try to take advantage of her inexperience to satisfy its appetite for pork and spendthrift ministries, even though it lost seats in the election.The man who could help her surmount these hurdles is Lula himself.

That should go some way to mollifying critics, but at the risk that the new-found emphasis on compliance will subject legitimate clients to monstrous amounts of red tape.But if HSBC can surmount its current troubles, it has huge opportunities.

He surmounted, too, the mental pain of his father's contempt and his mother's neglect.

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