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. ❋ John Richardson (1824)

Do you happen to think of any more 'insuperable' obstacles, my dear sir? " ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Merkel and Sarkozy called for the Lisbon treaty to be reopened to facilitate the new eurozone deal but both agreed that if it ran into insuperable resistance, the 17 countries of the eurozone would themselves forge a new euro pact. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But a president and a Congress committed to reforming Washington's ways face no insuperable problem getting the debt under control. ❋ John Steele Gordon (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sakai noted, sadly, that the B-29 Superfortress was simply “insuperable.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is no insuperable Mason-Dixon line separating a wholly Muslim North from a wholly Christian South. ❋ Howard F. Jeter (2010)

Mr. Smith says deregulation of commissions and the consolidation of share trading functions within large investment banks have led to "insuperable conflicts of interests." ❋ Unknown (2011)

I would hope so, but Robert Bryce argues carbon capture has substantial — perhaps insuperable — economic obstacles to overcome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Drought, on the other hand, makes it harder for them to burrow, although not even the hardest earth presents an insuperable barrier to these determined creatures. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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 (2011)

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. ❋ Jackson Diehl (2010)

It's an apocryphal tale, but nevertheless making a movie of the play about a vindictive schoolgirl spreading a rumour that two of her teachers are engaged in what was then called "an unnatural relationship" presented almost insuperable obstacles. ❋ Philip French (2010)

Finally, worth noting that screen capture has significant technological weaknesses — though for streaming video where the image quality is already limited, may not be an insuperable barrier. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)