(a.) Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.
Example Sentences:
(1) In establishing a chronic haemodialysis unit in Brunei the difficulties encountered were less insuperable than had been expected.
(2) One may thus carry out by an extremely benign operation without any mortality, a surgical cure not only of supple stenoses, but also of certain tight fibrous stenoses, considered insuperable.
(3) The transatlantic backdrop Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the EU are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the European Union are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable .
(4) Strictures recurring after previous biliary-enteric bypass, those associated with established biliary cirrhosis or coexistent malignancy, and those that follow hepatic resection may pose almost insuperable technical and physiological problems.
(5) Although the superomedial thigh flap will require at least two stages it is a reliable technique and it provides a generous amount of tissue with which to solve what may at first sight seem to be an insuperable problem.
(6) In the case of gas production, this is indeed an anticipated problem-not a technologically insuperable one, but a problem of reducing the cost of the materials required (16).
(7) It is emphasized that recognition of neurosarcoidosis presents almost insuperable difficulties in those cases in which sarcoidosis is not obvious in other organs.
(8) The insuperable problem with these plans, as written, is that their net could potentially catch many more political activists than those about whom Mrs May complains.
(9) Despite the recognition of the important role of socioeconomic factors, difficulties with the appropriate presentation of daya have so far proved insuperable.
(10) Lack of comparative trials and absence of dose-response information also pose insuperable problems in attempting secondary prevention with beta-blocking drugs in practice.
(11) In 20 cases relatives refused permission and in 12 there were insuperable practical and technical difficulties.
(12) Because he had written that the chiropractic association "happily promotes bogus treatments", the judge said he had to jump the insuperable barrier of proving that the therapists were lying rather than merely deluded and face costs of £500,000 or more if he failed.
(13) Many negotiations only break through to agreement in the final hours, when higher-level political pressure is applied to overcome what appeared previously to be insuperable technical problems.
(14) Accuracy was not determined as storage effects at 4 degrees C and at -20 degrees C caused insuperable logistic problems.
(15) In rehearsal one comes up against apparently insuperable barriers, but if one can imaginatively get past them, overreach one's natural reach, it is astonishing how elastic one can become.
(16) The current understanding of this requirement, which entails that the investigator have no "treatment preference" throughout the course of the trial, presents nearly insuperable obstacles to the ethical commencement or completion of a controlled trial and may also contribute to the termination of trials because of the failure to enroll enough patients.
(17) Yet the appearance of impasse, stand-off and potentially insuperable difficulty is often an essential part of any serious arbitration.
(18) Uninterruptably so - for despite his obvious frailty, his mind is still flensing-sharp, and he still does that trick of wrong-footing the emphasis... 'that would be the first point but insuperably more important is that' (pause for breath)... so the breaks come when you least expect them and you can't interrupt.
(19) It has also been shown that infection does not necessarily pose an insuperable problem, at any rate if, as in the case described, there was no preoperative pulmonary infection in either recipient or donor.
(20) At Westminster, reform had seemed to present such insuperable barriers that it was not even tentatively contemplated until the current Queen set out to show (as her great-great-grandmother Victoria had before her) that it was perfectly possible to combine motherhood with a career, as long as there was good childcare available.
Insurmountable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Residual technical problems remain which should not prove insurmountable.
(2) It presents a challenge, but not an insurmountable one.
(3) They serve only to create insurmountable barriers that effectively eliminate medical abortions as an available option."
(4) The following myths are discussed and refuted: (1) There is an insurmountable community-research chasm.
(5) This speech was designed to allow progressives once again to see Barack Obama as they have always wanted to see him, his policies notwithstanding: as a deeply thoughtful, moral, complex leader who is doing his level best, despite often insurmountable obstacles, to bring about all those Good Things that progressives thought they would be getting when they empowered him.
(6) loxtidine and lamitidine, are insurmountable H2-receptor blockers.
(7) The challenges sometimes feel insurmountable, Tousif says.
(8) David Cameron is preparing to bow to insurmountable political opposition by putting the coalition's flagship NHS reform bill on hold beyond Easter, and possibly for as long as three months.
(9) In the pithed rat, EXP3892 showed selective and insurmountable AII antagonism.
(10) Recent data suggest that hyperacute rejection may not represent an insurmountable barrier to discordant xenotransplantation.
(11) The scale and depth of the climate challenge may seem insurmountable, and politicians will tell us with no irony, that they cannot sell, and no one will buy the policy ticket necessary for our own environmental rescue.
(12) The study of agonist-antagonist interactions may be aided by the use of these procedures, as descriptions of insurmountable antagonism may be complemented by the identification of stimulus conditions associated with the antagonist, as well as those conditions that represent novel stimulus states.
(13) The authors conclude that though the process to primary mental health care will be a long one, the problems are unlikely to be insurmountable.
(14) No insurmountable problems in the development of the artificial heart have been identified.
(15) The reliance on scientific evidence appears to present almost insurmountable problems of proof of causation to the plaintiff.
(16) That problem might not have been insurmountable had it presented itself at another point in our history.
(17) In one case, a further increase in buspirone dose resulted in an insurmountable antagonism, i.e., increasing APO dose still resulted in primarily saline-appropriate responding.
(18) Taken together, these results show that GRI17289 is a potent, specific, selective and insurmountable antagonist at angiotensin AT, receptors.
(19) But if Pope Francis has his way, a deal to bridge what many believe is an insurmountable divide between the Roman Catholic church and the communist Chinese government could be announced within the next 30 days.
(20) Shareable cities These may seem like fairly insurmountable obstacles.