insuperable

• “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 — Complete

• “Do you happen to think of any more 'insuperable' obstacles, my dear sir? ”

  Doctor Jones' Picnic

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa

• “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

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Neil Zevnik: Rolling Out the Red Carpet: A Different Hollywood Tale

• “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?

• “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

• “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.”

  The Washington Post: How Obama sabotaged Middle East peace talks

• “Sakai noted, sadly, that the B-29 Superfortress was simply “insuperable.””

  The Last Ace

• “There is no insuperable Mason-Dixon line separating a wholly Muslim North from a wholly Christian South.”

  The Huffington Post: Howard F. Jeter: Nigeria on the Brink: A Rejoinder

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