Verb (used with object) : to surmount a hill. ,to surmount tremendous difficulties. ,a statue surmounting a pillar. ,to surmount a tower with a spire.    From Dictionary.com. 

As for functional programming being "unsurmountable", I would seriously doubt that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » Why C++ is not my favourite language] Reference

He said the absence of a specific geographic area associated largely with ethnic Afrikaners was an "unsurmountable" obstacle to.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Obama already has an unsurmountable lead in pledged delegates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama picks up Oregon superdelegate] Reference

Our only unsurmountable contradictions is with Yankee imperialism!.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO STATEMENT ON CUBAN-CPR RELATIONS] Reference

Surely you can see that he has momentum and an unsurmountable lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Holding A Public Event Today, After All] Reference

But right now trying to digest this tragedy is just almost unsurmountable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006] Reference

It may seem like an unsurmountable distance, but it really is quite achievable!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattle Marathon Recap | Seattle Metblogs] Reference

But we're getting through that, and those are not unsurmountable at this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Inauguration Committee Prepares for Ceremony - December 17, 2000] Reference

The want of credit was an unsurmountable obstacle to its progress in every respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

I felt his unsurmountable strength beneath the fabric, the strange, unnatural fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittorio, The Vampire]

Are they unsurmountable, or is there something that we can do to help them along here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2006] Reference

But Zambia's Chiluba said he was "confident that the differences are not unsurmountable.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There seemed to be an unsurmountable stone wall between him and the sweet things of this world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference

Since they waited until this late date, they are running into possibly unsurmountable obstacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Hillary Donor Directly Pressures Dean: "Exercise Some Leadership" On Florida And Michigan] Reference

Neither problem is earth-shattering or unsurmountable, but those little problems can just eat your day.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 August « Attempting Elegance] Reference

Ben Franklin would have been proad of your actions in the face of what seemed like unsurmountable odds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Video: Feingold Convinces Senators to Block Patriot Act Extension] Reference

There are difficulties in the way of this theory; but they are not unsurmountable, and I believe that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India] Reference

As a Marxist historian he said that presented him with a problem, but not, he added, an unsurmountable one.    From Wordnik.com.  [coquilles] Reference

Instead of looking at a problem as a big, unsurmountable task; break it into smaller and more manageable ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting that Frozen Feeling - Beating the Apathy Caused by Depression] Reference

"There needn't be an unsurmountable burden on broadcast societies (with the introduction of the new fees)," he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The working of points and crossings, and the shunting of trains and wagons, would present unsurmountable difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference

The management of the canoe alone appears a work of unsurmountable difficulty, its breadth is so inadequate to its length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference

He assured the international community that Lesotho's problems were not unsurmountable and that they would be resolved soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They found labour in the burning climate intolerable, and the dangers and hardships to which they were subjected unsurmountable.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

The obstacles he faces at the beginning seem unsurmountable; but at St. Dunstan's the spirit of the place grips him and the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference

I have my little voice in my head during anything difficult in RL or game life that seems unsurmountable saying "its all practice".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh tragedy] Reference

In water-leg boilers, the use of such flat-stayed surfaces under pressure presents difficulties that are practically unsurmountable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference

'There is to be no more of this blocking of my orders, no more of these tactics of producing unsurmountable reasons why you are not able to do as I say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonecrack]

Of course, the problem of equating Greek aspirated χ- with Etruscan inaspirate c- in cana is phonetically unsurmountable without imagining further impulsive assumptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The false image of cana] Reference

This appears to me to be an unsurmountable difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902] Reference

A great, unsurmountable wall seemed to obstruct Ellen's thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Last Man] Reference

Some of these conditions may be determined as unsurmountable, assuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference

Both Areva and EDF said the concerns presented no unsurmountable problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

However, by the time this was mentioned to me, Parra already had what was basically an unsurmountable lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [AZ Snakepit] Reference

One almost unsurmountable obstacle lies in the uncanny grip that the "medicine man" wields in all the tribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [An African Adventure] Reference

Personally, he was powerless because, to his physical weakness, the storm presented an unsurmountable obstacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of the Storm Country] Reference

He also considers the difficulties of a journey to Germany under the present conditions to be almost unsurmountable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Conquest of England] Reference

That proves to be an unsurmountable challenge for many of the characters in this book as well as millions of other North Koreans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference