How To Use Insuperable In A Sentence
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Fully conscious of the insuperable difficulties of explaining at present the innermost mechanism by which this inertness was overcome, Warburg decided to investigate the nature of the mysterious substance that acts as the primus motor in intracellular combustion.
Physiology or Medicine 1931 - Presentation Speech
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But in general the world religions kept to themselves, separated by linguistic, cultural and geographical barriers that seemed insuperable.
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Several facts contradict your assumption, and one, I fear, is insuperable.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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Federalism is an important element of the Constitution, but it is no insuperable barrier to federal lawmaking.
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The problem is largely an insuperable one, and all we can do at this stage is to bear it in mind.
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In practice, the political obstacles to metropolitan plans have been virtually insuperable for a generation and are likely to remain so.
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Public finances are still weak but they are no longer an insuperable constraint on this rating.
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This inability closes his mind to a great part of the debate, and so makes his atheist faith insuperable for as long as he himself chooses to accept it.
Arguing with atheists « Anglican Samizdat
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Several facts contradict your assumption, and one, I fear, is insuperable.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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Care for and control of them cannot be seen as an insuperable barrier to peace.
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This is the radical uncertainty that haunts contemporary Marxist theorists, the insuperable difficulty of impossible exchange.
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Our climate isn't insuperable, but it makes winemaking difficult in most vintages.
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What should speak most powerfully to Africans today is Mandela's spectacular defiance in spite of seemingly insuperable odds and his unshaken commitment to his ideals even in the face of his own death.
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Such an approach, however, created insuperable difficulties.
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God reconnoiters the limits of Hell amid cries of insuperable ecstasy.
God's Vial
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We hope our series will help people understand the depth of courage and determination needed to triumph against such insuperable odds.
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He probably foresaw, as indeed time has shown, that ancestral worship would prove to be an insuperable obstacle to many inquirers, if they were called upon to discard it once and for all; at the same time, he must have known that an invocation to spirits, coupled with the hope of obtaining some benefit therefrom, is _worship_ pure and simple, and cannot be explained away as an unmeaning ceremony.
China and the Manchus
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It needed but an hour's talk to convince me that I had met two of the most intellectual artists in the dramatic profession, and also to learn how great were the obstacles which lay in the way of producing a real play, each year adding to the insuperableness of the barriers.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
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The deep river was an insuperable barrier to those who could not swim.
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As usual, the hero was facing insuperable odds .
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Our climate isn't insuperable, but it makes winemaking difficult in most vintages.
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insuperable heroes
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The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor.
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We should note that this method did not become an insuperable barrier.
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There appear to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off or swallowed up in subterranean abysses.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Japanese fighting men did not surrender, even in the face of insuperable odds.
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We hear a lot about barriers to entry and how those insuperable walls can be a natural protection for incumbent companies.
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I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow-creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.
Chapter 20
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Are those steps up to the bank an insuperable obstacle?
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He recalled the insuperable aversion the old man had ever entertained to approach of even make mention of the spot, and greatly did he blame himself for having persisted in offering a violence to his nature, the extent of which had been made so fearfully obvious.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2
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We stand against insuperable odds, around one thousand to one.
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But the more I think about it, the more it appears that there are no insuperable obstacles to such a development should it ever become democratically necessary.
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Moved by some intuition or an “inner voice,” and undiscouraged by the obstacles that seemed insuperable to those around them, they pursued the course they had set themselves.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
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If a child presents insuperable problems courts will interpret legislation in a commonsense way.
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(_d_) Another class hold the view which is termed cosmogonies than that of Moses, whether contained in the sacred books of religions that have long existed, or professing to be based on modern scientific discovery, raise difficulties that are insuperable.
Exposition of the Apostles Creed
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The mountainous topography and the lack of navigable waterways were an almost insuperable obstacle to the movement of passengers and freight.
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The probability of three bones having evolved to their current configuration is not necessarily insuperable, especially since you're talking about a difference of degree in functionality, not a bridge from virtually zero functionality to full functionality.
Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
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The Chilean experience shows that this obstacle, though daunting, is not insuperable.
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If persistence, talent, and dogged hard work in the face of nearly insuperable obstacles qualifies one for stardom, these students get billing above the title.
Neil Zevnik: Rolling Out the Red Carpet: A Different Hollywood Tale
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Of course this itself poses almost insuperable problems and would certainly be unprecedented if achieved.
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If that is your proposition, that seems to me to present an insuperable hurdle in your way.
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There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
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The scandalmonger is the murderer of reputations, the destroyer of domestic peace, the insuperable obstacle to the mutual friendliness of neighborhoods.
Practical Ethics
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
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There appears to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off, or swallowed up in subterranean abysses.
Chapter XXI
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Several facts contradict your assumption, and one, I fear, is insuperable.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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As usual, the hero was facing insuperable odds .
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Moreover there has been an insuperable gap between cognitive factors of ancient and modern world.
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A degree of statutory definition has been enacted in the past, without any noticeable subsequent insuperable or oppressive difficulties.
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It is the strong bond between the two parties that forms an almost insuperable barrier to entry and shuts out potential competitors.
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He looked up at me, as if he were going to suggest the most insuperable obstacle to that, and asked, "Who fuff the light?
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California
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Yet the problems are clearly not insuperable: witness the blaze of creativity in Britain's financial services.
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But you seem not to have had any insuperable difficulty in locating the Barclay companies.
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The flexibility result hints that lack of reform in Europe need not be an insuperable barrier to UK entry.
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The statement confirmed something that many Mideast watchers have suspected for a long time: that the settlement impasse originated not with Netanyahu or Abbas, but with Obama -- who by insisting on an Israeli freeze has created a near-insuperable obstacle to the peace process he is trying to promote.
How Obama sabotaged Middle East peace talks
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The difficulties that confront us seem insuperable.
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On the other hand, to allow the majority to create a rule against the wishes of the minority would lead to insuperable difficulties.
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The union had been given a final chance to prevail against what had seemed insuperable odds.
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Self-transcendence is overcoming insuperable obstacles in one's path.
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The great error in Rip's composition was insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor.
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Should the English hoist their flag here, a new factory must be erected; the most eligible situation for which would be where the mosk now stands, or the mosk itself might be converted into one, and another rebuilt elsewhere; but to this the sultan has insuperable objections.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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The English inflicted heavy casualties against seemingly insuperable odds because they used longbows to attack the opposing cavalry.
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The Uruguay has formed an insuperable obstacle to its migration: although the broader barrier of the Parana has been passed, and the bizcacha is common in Entre Rios, the province between these two great rivers.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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TYPICAL USE : The deep river was an insuperable barrier to those who could not swim.
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It gives a particular direction to every sentiment and action, and carries a man forward, as by a kind of resistless impulse, or insuperable destiny.
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Do you happen to think of any more 'insuperable' obstacles, my dear sir?
Doctor Jones' Picnic
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I would hope so, but Robert Bryce argues carbon capture has substantial — perhaps insuperable — economic obstacles to overcome.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream?
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But we also know that unity can be and has been attained among men of the most disparate origins, that differences of race, of religion, of culture, of tradition, are no insuperable obstacle to the coming together of peoples.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa
