They have overcome almost insuperable odds that the poor facilities and elements have brought about. From LearnThat.org.
insuperable odds. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an insuperable barrier. From Dictionary.com.
Do you happen to think of any more 'insuperable' obstacles, my dear sir? ". From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
The great and insuperable one was its want of power. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
But the bogey of expense at first proved insuperable. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
I am worried about privacy but I don't think it's insuperable. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Semantic Web'] Reference
But he faces an insuperable difficulty, or rather difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [A War Worth Fighting] Reference
On the other hand is an insuperable obstacle: the speed of light. From Wordnik.com. [Bandwidth Be Thy Name] Reference
It does not make an insuperable difference between gentle and simple. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Practical opposition is indeed ponderous, but not necessarily insuperable. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
It placed almost insuperable difficulties in the way of their reorganization. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
In the solution of this problem the Taft forces had one insuperable advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
"In general, as I say, the psychological tests present no insuperable barriers.". From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Laboriously because at every step some almost insuperable hurdle barred their way. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
Nature and experience alike reveal a pronounced and insuperable inequality among men. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
The hindrance to realization may be an accidental one; it may not be wholly insuperable. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
To meet this insuperable difficulty perhaps the term "vital essence" is open to least objection. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
But the accident at Marquise came and smoothed the apparently insuperable difficulties in my way. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
No politician likes to expend a lot of effort when the barriers are, for the time being, insuperable. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Aborted Revolution?] Reference
The intellectual difficulty of atheism is so insuperable that we hear of it no more from men of science. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
There were times when the difficulties which faced its constructors appeared to be absolutely insuperable. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
The cellar was evidently still occupied in force; he was cornered between starvation and insuperable odds. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Marriage and separate family life are insuperable barriers, it is said, to corporate unity and social progress. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
I see no prospect of the former, and there are many great, if not insuperable obstacles in the way of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Atlantic presented no insuperable difficulty, and when the moment arrived the sceptics found that he was correct. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
They had dared to love against insuperable odds, and, succumbing at last, had left her as the pledge of that love!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
When this is explained to them, there are those who admit the insuperable difficulty, and suggest, as a compromise, that. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
But how much more insuperable was the barrier which his own principles had raised between this adorable girl and himself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Embankment; but the difficulty of shipment from so inaccessible a spot proving insuperable, the enterprise was abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
He looked up at me, as if he were going to suggest the most insuperable obstacle to that, and asked, "Who fuff the light?". From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Suffice it to say that I broke through the seemingly insuperable barrier hemming in the atomic world and made myself known. From Wordnik.com. [The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds] Reference
Not only is the agreement impossible to verify, but both sides face nearly insuperable problems in disposing of their weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Behind The Boasting] Reference
Mr. Sherman, did not regard the admission of the Negroes into the ratio of representation, as liable to such insuperable objections. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
In trying to obtain all these advantages there seem almost insuperable difficulties in the reconcilement of these diverse conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
He came to realize that all men have something in common, and that accident of birth placed no insuperable bar between one and another. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Fay, before you and Micro go off half cocked, I want you to know there's one insuperable objection to the tickler as a mass-market item. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
The poorest have sometimes taken the highest places, nor have difficulties apparently the most insuperable proved obstacles in their way. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
And Tim chuckled delightedly, blissfully unconscious that with each word he spoke he was binding upon his mother's shoulders an insuperable burden of remorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
They are difficult to regulate because many of them operate offshore, but if the regulatory authorities cooperate, this should not present any insuperable difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [The Crisis Of Global Capitalism] Reference
Large lead: These dueling trajectories-people ready to leave and desperate to arrive-represent the gulf between New and Old in L.A. and a near-insuperable political challenge. From Wordnik.com. [City Of Euphemisms] Reference
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