One major obstacle the school discovered, and one that is difficult to surmount, is timing.
Sometimes, of course, this is because of obstacles that are difficult to surmount – long distances, or family estrangements.
Their elation was to be short-lived as the step up in quality proved difficult to surmount.
Harvey argues that each major capitalist crisis has been worse than the last one, and more difficult to surmount.
"Of the many obstacles that stand in the way of a first book as it makes its precarious way into the world and into its readers hands," he explained, "fear is often the biggest and the most difficult to surmount.
First, the intrinsic uncertainty surrounding any investment project puts the borrower's ability to repay in question; second, the borrower's fragile promise to obey the contract can be more difficult to surmount.
A confluence of factors, including heavily tenured-in departments, fewer tenure-track positions, demographic trends, and a glut of Ph.D.s looking for employment, have placed tremendous strain on junior faculty members, making the tenure barrier increasingly difficult to surmount.
On the background of this development, it seems that at a time when relativism appears difficult to surmount, authenticity has become a last measure of value and a common currency in contemporary cultural life (Jay 2004).
But it's difficult to surmount the historic tensions that some minority groups perceive between racial justice and the very institution of policing.
This problem has proven difficult to surmount empirically.
