Insurmountable Sentence Examples

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  • Nothing is insurmountable if one is determined enough.

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  • Handling this month after month seemed an insurmountable task.

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  • Although the job of cleaning out her father's basement seemed insurmountable, Esther was determined to give it a try.

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  • The company will have an insurmountable problem if business doesn't improve soon.

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  • The idea of filing her taxes seemed insurmountable to Abby, so she hired an accountant.

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  • When people told my mom that earning her engineering degree was an insurmountable feat, she was even more determined to succeed.

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  • Although her dreams of pursuing a career in the music industry felt insurmountable, Ava persevered.

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  • Luckily, when a math problem seems insurmountable, I can call my brother Billy to help.

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  • Individuals that live far from major ports may find the added costs of airfare insurmountable and inconvenient.

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  • I made no effort to teach her to speak, because I regarded her inability to watch the lips of others as an insurmountable obstacle.

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  • Although some tax credits and rebates are available from both state and federal sources, many homeowners will still find the cost an insurmountable obstacle.

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  • The cost of attending a secondary school is insurmountable for some students.

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  • It can provide a road map by track progress of your goals as your business grows, helping you to see potential problems and work around them before they become insurmountable obstacles.

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  • Addressing These Challenges Do such challenges provide an insurmountable barrier to deployment?

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  • They are not insurmountable, but they do require slightly more forethought.

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  • What makes the problem almost insurmountable is the disparate base upon which the changes must be made.

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  • Each role player was able to speak from the heart of their own experience of overcoming apparently insurmountable barriers.

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  • Presumably, the problem of finding a leader finally proved insurmountable, for in 1959 the Company was disbanded.

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  • What seems to be an insurmountable problem today may seem solvable in a years time.

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  • But the obstinate refusal of Joseph to admit that the Rakoczians were anything but rebels was always the insurmountable object in all such negotiations.

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  • Managing stress in hard economy can feel insurmountable.

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  • If you and your partner are unable to communicate, one day you may feel as though your troubles with your partner are insurmountable.

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  • At a later period, however, the difficulty of screening the rites of baptism and Eucharist from the eyes of catechumens and from their ears the creeds and liturgies - a difficulty which had ever been formidable and which after the overthrow of paganism must have become insurmountable - seems to have provoked not only a great outpouring on the part of the Christian rhetors, like Basil, Chrysostom, the Gregories and the Cyrils, of phrases borrowed from the Greek mysteries, but perhaps an actual use of precautions.

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  • The growth of national kingdoms, the anti-clerical tendencies of the emancipated middle classes, the competition of lay imperialisms, and all the other elements of resistance which had been encountered by the papacy in its progress and had at first tended only to shackle it, now presented an insurmountable barrier.

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  • But this idea was quickly dispelled; on the 22nd he expressed his surprise that anybody should have thought he intended to approve of Mr Chamberlain's plan; he was not prepared to dismiss in advance a proposal for the consolidation of the empire made by the responsible government, but he believed that the objections to a policy of preference were insurmountable.

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  • The obstacles would seem, indeed, to be insurmountable.

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  • Many times, seemingly insurmountable problems can be dispelled with fun!

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  • However, these are not insurmountable problems, especially in light of the high cost of the spoiled lives of many of our children.

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  • This is likely to prove a virtually insurmountable hurdle for an applicant to overcome.

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  • Both issues present an extensive and possibly insurmountable challenge to the ideology and practice of continuous economic growth.

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  • Doing familiar things, like shopping, using public transport or talking to people can seem insurmountable in a new country.

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  • For a hostile questioner the Table Office can appear as insurmountable as the Berlin Wall.

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  • The pressure to retain and grow market share is huge even tho the barriers to actually doing so are becoming ever more insurmountable.

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  • Working is one thing, working with and among friends is another, problems do not feel so insurmountable!

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  • If the problem looks insurmountable, talk to your accountant or other professional adviser.

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  • The rule of the bureaucracy remained an insurmountable obstacle, blocking the road toward socialism.

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  • The insurmountable difficulties presented by the lunar theory forced Kepler, after an enormous amount of fruitless labour, to abandon his design of comprehending the whole scheme of the heavens in one great work to be called Hipparchus, and he then threw a portion of his materials into the form of a dialogue intended for the instruction of general readers.

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  • Because of the insurmountable difficulties ahead of him, Cole decided to change career paths.

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  • For many families, the cost of adopting a child from China can seem insurmountable.

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  • While these are by no means insurmountable, they are very real considerations that need to be faced.

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  • While the selections may have once been relegated to mere basics, today the various eye shadows, blushes, mascaras, lipsticks, lip glosses, highlighters and even foundations are available in a seemingly insurmountable collection of shades.

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  • Housebreaking puppies may seem like an insurmountable task, but your new additions will quickly become part of the family with a little patience and a lot of perseverance.

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  • There always seem to be more leaves every time you turn around, and if you have a good-sized yard with a lot of trees, the task can seem insurmountable.

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  • It's a common problem, but it's not an insurmountable one, by any means.

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  • Finding affordable senior citizen health coverage can seem like an insurmountable goal.

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  • All of these attacks are handy when the party becomes surrounded or faces seemingly insurmountable odds.

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  • Hang in there, finding the perfect person for you isn't an easy process but it's not insurmountable.

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  • It's just her nature; you'll either learn to live with it, or it will turn it into an insurmountable obstacle in your relationship.

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  • For these families, childcare vouchers are often the answer, particularly when childcare expenses appear insurmountable.

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  • From cheerleaders to coaches to writers for LoveToKnow, the first steps in coming up with those words for basketball cheers feels like an insurmountable task.

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  • But many of the laws were quite unsuitable for the circumstances of his age, and the belief that a body of intricate and even contradictory legislation was imposed suddenly upon a people newly emerged from bondage in Egypt raises insurmountable objections, and underestimates the fact that legal usage existed in the earliest stages of society, and therefore in pre-Mosaic times.

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  • It seems not improbable that in the latter, where the difficulties incident to a count during the summer are almost insurmountable, serious omissions occurred.

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  • It would be a hard, though probably not insurmountable, task to establish " a reasonable proportion," such as provided for in Art.

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  • In 18 3 a select committee of the House of Commons went into the whole subject of secondary punishment and reported that, as the difficulties in the way of an effective classification of prisoners were insurmountable, they were strongly in favour of the confinement of prisoners in separate cells, recommending that the whole of the prisons should be altered accordingly and the expense borne by the public exchequer.

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  • He held that, apart from an interior and unreasoned conviction, there is no cogent proof of the existence of God; and in Tract 85 he dealt with the difficulties of the Creed and of the canon of Scripture, with the apparent implication that they are insurmountable unless overridden by the authority of an infallible Church.

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  • The experiment was so far successful that, with incredible difficulty, the two vessels did actually reach Meskene, but the result of the expedition was to show that practically the river could not be used as a high-road of commerce, the continuous rapids and falls during the low season, caused mainly by the artificial obstructions of the irrigating dams, being insurmountable by ordinary steam power, and the aid of hundreds of hands being thus required to drag the vessels up the stream at those points by main force.

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  • It was now proposed that he should be accredited as Bavarian ambassador in London; but the circumstance that he was a British subject presented an insurmountable obstacle.

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  • But, as applied to lower and more obscure forms of life, teleology presented alfnost insurmountable difficulties; and consequently, in place of exact experiment and demonstration, the most reckless though ingenious assumptions were made as to the utility of the parts and organs of lower animals.

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  • Some decades ago these difficulties were not insurmountable, when critics assigned a Neronic date to the Apocalypse and a Domitianic or later date to the Gospel.

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  • The rules about this are insurmountable; you won't find a loophole in this situation.

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  • The seemingly insurmountable mountain range loomed in the distance.

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  • In face of obstacles apparently insurmountable he had made a nation, consolidating all the forces which Wallace had stirred into life.

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  • He had no ready solution, but continued to believe the ultimate solution she chose to these insurmountable obstacles was a cop-out.

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