Word: surmountable
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Doermann said his sister suffered "considerable discrimination" in the field but was able to surmount gender bias because of her tremendous self-discipline...
Writing a paper is total effort; it does not just consist of the thought process and actual writing, but also of the labor and exercise involved in overcoming the system of Xeroxing the necessary books. We surmount broken photocopiers, many stairs, long lines, torn money, mean machines and $10 bills to write our opus...
TThis afternoon, however, I will surmount those anxieties. As I step onto the Red Line T car, a layer of stress will lift off my shoulders and be subsumed by the whine of the tracks. Once I arrive in the Delta Shuttle terminal, I will pick up a magazine and watch CNN Airport News until Harvard seems positively foreign. And once I land at National Airport in Washington, D.C., I will vow not to let paltry academic concerns cast a shadow over my weekend. It will take effort, but it is doable and worth doing. Harvard is not contained...
Economics correspondent Suneel Ratan reports that there are also a few regulatory hurdles for Levin to surmount: "The deal will have to gain two sets of clearances -- and any problems encountered likely will be a consequence of the arrangement's giving Malone a significant minority interest in the merged entity. One is from antitrust regulators. The second is from the Federal Communications Commission, which would determine if the deal conforms to a maze of rules." Clearing the federal hurdles, Ratan says, could take up to a year...
...three games that Rutgers won, it opened up big leads that Harvard was unable to surmount. Similarly, in the two games the Crimson won, the Scarlet Knights made furious comeback attempts that were ultimately unfulfilled...