Sentence examples for try to surmount from inspiring English sources

This opacity of agency in car driving, and the ways we try to surmount it, turns out to be the subject of intense academic study.

Woodson acknowledged that the defense has been playing poorly, and Packers wins have taken on a familiar pattern: the offense builds a seemingly insurmountable lead, then gives the opponent most of the second half to try to surmount it.

In retrospect, Heidegger found it too redolent of the subjective and anthropological preconceptions he had been trying to surmount.

(Grode) 'The Explorers Club' (in previews; opens on June 20) Nell Benjamin, who co-wrote the score to "Legally Blonde: The Musical," once again takes on the humorous travails of a bright woman trying to surmount institutionalized sexism.

(Eric Grode) 'The Explorers Club' (in previews; opens on Thursday) Nell Benjamin, who co-wrote the score to "Legally Blonde: The Musical," once again takes on the humorous travails of a bright woman trying to surmount institutionalized sexism.

"Closed Curtain" plays as a confessional work from a depressive artist, trying to surmount the obvious limitations of his situation and — most painful of all — acknowledging the possible futility of that quest.

In the past councils have tried to surmount the housing shortage by paying private landlords to take council tenants, but this is the first time a council has effectively become a private landlord itself.

Meanwhile the ordination of his more assertive brother, Tom, "seemed to have shut him off from the rest of the family, and now it was as though he were trying to surmount it by his boisterous manner and affected bonhomie.

"Mountain Climber," for example, has the cello trying to surmount the harsh, aggressively sawed wall of sound that the other three instruments produce, and though "Guillotine" ends with the expected sharp cutoff, the music leading to it is fresh and appealing, and the final gesture is more subtle than its predecessor in Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique".

While Mr. Robbins said it was indisputable that people brought different experiences to the bench, "the role of a judge requires that the person who holds that position recognizes those dispositions that come from personal experience and tries to surmount them".

The society's agenda then widened to include trying to surmount what Jeang, who is the SCBA president-elect, diplomatically calls "the political divisions among Chinese areas".