Word: surmounting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Among the summer's high-profile flops was the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer ($43.9 million), which couldn't surmount a demographic challenge - it was a kids' movie based on a 1960s cartoon no kid can remember. "It looked like a video game in the TV commercials, a blitz of colors and not much else," says Brandon Gray, president of Box Office Mojo. "You really had to see the movie to get it. Unfortunately, not that many people did." A less noble failure, perhaps, was The Love Guru, which only took in $32 million despite Mike Myers' relentless promotion on American...
Surely, as the Obama campaign unveils Biden to the world, they are little concerned about his ability to surmount the primary hurdle that any potential vice president must get over, that Biden is ready to be president from day one by virture of experience, temperament, and judgment. But the campaign will just as certainly be coaching him on his initial speeches and media appearances. Once again, Joe Biden will be told to keep it short and limit the use of the pronoun...
...crowd] didn’t know my name, I still got compliments on my sunglasses.”Chiang dressed appropriately as well, wearing a remnant of his high school track and cross-country uniform: his lucky boxers.THE AMAZING RACEWhile lucky drawers and yellow shades can help surmount the physical feat of running the marathon, sometimes the mental hurdle is just as difficult to overcome. During the night before the race, Eagan recalled how the anticipation was almost as bad as the run itself. “I was in my bed for seven hours, but I probably slept...
...well in this meet then I had to jump it on the first try,” Christensen said. “It really helped that I knew I had jumped it once before.” Christiansen cleared 1.83 meters on her first attempt, but was unable to surmount the following bar at 1.86 meters, keeping her at the fourth spot to end the day. Washington State’s Ebba Jungmark took the event with a 1.89-meter clearance. “This meet really proves that Becky rises to the occasion,” Harvard coach Jason...
Vaccines administered as oral mists can potentially surmount hurdles, such as a need for refrigerated storage, that limit distribution of traditional vaccines, according to the study. Many TB cases occur in underdeveloped countries with poor health infrastructure that limit vaccination efforts...