Word: surmount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone in the audience is not only familiar with the nuances of pre-electric lighting but feel that they have experienced it first hand. The movie grates constantly on the ear as well. Coughing, pickaxes, water pouring and children's sobbing provide a constant drone which all else must surmount to be heard...
...caveat. Despite its chewy theme, Brainfood is in many respects user- hostile. The author is director of research at the National Institute for Medical Research in Paris; his chapters on nutritional basics bristle with such forbidding terms as neuropeptides, mitochondria and oligodendrocyte. Nonetheless, those who can surmount this barbed-wire fence of technical jargon may find other parts of Bourre's book no less pleasing than -- to cite one of his own examples -- an omelet with freshly picked Bordeaux cepe mushrooms...
Even better than holding other candidates responsible, people who have ever harbored the thought of running for U.C. might surmount the courage to do so. As someone who has lost elections for council chair, vice-chair and treasurer, I have some authority to say that losing elections isn't as bad as it seems...
...late, it seems that weather is the only obstacle the Crimson has not been able to surmount. Now halfway through the season, Harvard (11-9 overall, 3-1 EIBL) has won seven of its last eight games, and has climbed to second place in the EIBL behind Yale...
...system that would subsidize the tuition of children who choose parochial schools, the Bush Administration is confronting one of the nation's sacrosanct principles: the First Amendment's stricture against "establishment of religion" creates a wall between church and state. That hurdle, while high, may not be impossible to surmount. Over the years the Supreme Court has wrestled with the distinction between direct funding of religious institutions, which is forbidden, and indirect aid that is designed to serve a secular purpose, which may be permissible...