Word: surmounting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next hurdle to surmount after AI consideration is what Harvard calls the “broken leg test.” It means exactly what it sounds like—how would a recruit take advantage of Harvard’s other opportunities if she were to break her leg. “Will this person be good in a seminar, with a professor, in a dining hall?” asks Fitzsimmons. “Will this person grow? We don’t sign people to contracts to play field hockey.” To find...
...have faith in the process, in what we are trying to do,” he said. “I ask you to believe that we can surmount problems of implementation...
...died in a storm now known as the "1996 disaster." But I had prepared for 16 years, learning to feel my way up mountainous terrain using ice axes and long poles. I finally concluded that when other people's expectations become barriers, the best thing to do is to surmount them...
...stay close in the early rounds of the meet, tying the contest 6-6 after four matches. But five straight Penn victories made the score 25-6, a Quaker lead too large even for Jantzen—who scored a technical fall in the second period—to surmount...
...human failings, especially greed, mean that this ideal, plus other sensible scriptural instructions, can be interpreted as one wants. For example, killing is bad, except during war or self-defense, and you can always declare war. Abraham may be a link between religions, but we will never surmount the lowest common denominator of the seven original sins. MURRAY HUNTER Auckland, New Zealand...