(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.
Unconquerable
Definition:
(a.) Not conquerable; indomitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The great themes of Gatsby are so quintessentially American that they recur endlessly throughout the nation's art anyway: Don Draper, with his occluded origins, unconquerable solitude and loveless prosperity, is Gatsby 1968; Sunset Boulevard grants Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis precisely the same delusions about recovering the past as are shared by Gatsby and Carraway; and the criminal origin of respectable fortunes is a time-worn narrative trope (The Godfather again).
(2) Only a little earlier, the willing and callow Chisora had put in the best performance of his career to lose on points over 12 rounds to the unconquerable WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.
(3) That unconquerable way of living makes up Paris’s charm – something that cannot be calculated into a ranking.