Sentences with phrase «insurmountable at»

In addition, our family mediators have mediated cases with the parents and the teenagers so as to help the family resolve certain disputes that seem to be insurmountable at home.

For others of this era, the communication gap between city policy and artist initiatives proved insurmountable at the time: Fugitive Art Projects sought physical space in 1999 to cultivate exhibitions, studios, and artistic dialogue, but eventually closed their Fugitive Art Center venue in 2005 after struggling to work with building codes and facility issues.

Such challenges seemed insurmountable at first.

Not exact matches

«Looking back on my time at Yahoo, we have confronted seemingly insurmountable business challenges, along with many surprise twists and turns.

Sales goals can seem insurmountable if looked at as one huge chunk.

However, by the time he delivered his Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1927 and 1928, upon which Process and Reality was based, Whitehead was already aware of insurmountable difficulties with many empiricist assumptions about the nature of the reality that we are supposed to observe in order to confirm those general laws of which Cohen wrote.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Gazing up from his wheelchair at that imposing entrance and those five insurmountable steps, he says, «OK, carry me in,» and two waiting students — both of them at least a bit nervous — carry him into the foyer.

But it should now be clear to white and black churchmen alike that the theological differences between them are very real, and that they form barriers which, in my opinion at least, are insurmountable for the present generation unless, of course, white churches are ready to make a radical commitment to the fight for justice on behalf of the oppressed.

Also remember how many times in the past a seemingly insurmountable lead has been clawed back to win the Premiership (I recall Newcastle being 12 points ahead at one stage in the 90's).

While that would not be an insurmountable gap, anything less than an Arsenal win at Stamford Bridge on Saturday would surely spell the end of our title hopes, so it has to be a win and there is no time for messing about.

Vidic and Rio at the height of their powers were an insurmountable wall....

It wasn't an easy thing to swallow for Portland after being tied with the Houston Rockets at 116 with just 30 seconds left with a chance to take an insurmountable 3 - 0 series lead.

Tiger would add two more wins, at The Players and Firestone, to take what appeared to be another insurmountable hold on No. 1.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Arsenal do not have to worry about Jose Mourinho and Chelsea as a Premier League title rival anymore this season, even though the 15 points that separate us and them at the minute is not insurmountable, the fact that there are also 13 other clubs for Chelsea to get past first makes us pretty safe.

Last week's 3 - 1 defeat to Tottenham at Stamford Bridge has left the reigning Premier League champions facing what looks to be an insurmountable task to finish in the top four.

A shock FA Cup win at Liverpool was the highlight of Lambert's brief reign as issues with the club's recruitment policy proved insurmountable.

Their schedule will be tough, but nothing insurmountable that won't allow them to reach at least 10 wins again.

Last League Meeting: A surprisingly open affair at Old Trafford on 18 September, 2011 was won by Manchester United, who struck three times before half - time (Smalling, Nani and Wayne Rooney the scorers) to give themselves an insurmountable 3 - 0 lead at the break.

However I feel in the form Munchen are in at the moment they will have a strong first leg and open up an insurmountable lead come the tricky second leg in Istanbul.

«The overwhelming benefits of breastfeeding are undisputed while at the same time, the ability to do so is still sometimes met with seemingly insurmountable challenges that can vary widely between ethnic and socio - economic groups.

This time I need to lose at least 35 pounds which seems insurmountable right now but I have to do it.

That said, I still think there are aspects of pumping at work that can be tricky, especially if you are a new mama and trying to think through whether your return to work is an insurmountable impediment to continuing to provide your child with breast milk.

If it seems insurmountable, if the fights just keep coming despite all your efforts at common sense and common ground, it may be time to seek outside help.

«For people living on modest means and fixed - incomes, like our many of our senior citizens, paying rent and keeping up with the rising costs of living can seem insurmountable,» said Robert Riggs, Senior Vice President & Regional Director at CPC.

Treanor is lobbying to make the Nevele the second Catskills region casino, with approvals granted at the same time so Monticello would not get an insurmountable competitive advantage.

Still, caveats notwithstanding, sixteen points is hardly an insurmountable gap, and Democrats take this race for granted at their peril.

Looking at these circumstances first, are they insurmountable?

«I was lucky coming from a lab [at Michigan] that didn't have financing issues,» Conley says, but she knows that securing adequate funding is a major, and for some insurmountable, challenge in many academic labs.

Even in a supportive environment, the challenges of doing both at once — becoming a world - class researcher and commercializing a technology — are so formidable that many early - career scientists come to see them as insurmountable.

The expense and technical difficulties of aiming X-ray lasers at targets thousands of miles away in outer space had seemed insurmountable, but Dirk Bouwmeester, a former post doc under Penrose who is now a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, saw a way to make it feasible.

«Also, the hand must be innervated by thousands of nerves to have meaningful function, and that is at this point an insurmountable problem.

George Daley, a stem cell scientist at Children's Hospital Boston, says the new study is «fascinating,» but he doesn't think immune rejection will be an insurmountable problem for iPS cells.

Such a step would require 60 votes in the Senate, a likely insurmountable obstacle at this point.

One day at a time: Large goals can seem insurmountable.

At any point in the day when things feel overwhelming or insurmountable, try practicing this simple vinyasa taught by A.G. Mohan, a longtime student of Krishnamacharya and the author of Yoga for Body, Breath, and Mind.

Changing these habits for the better will allow the body to increase secretion of growth hormone naturally, however by the time a growth hormone deficiency is noticed, restoring the natural levels back to where they should be becomes an almost insurmountable task; if the body is already working at a deficiency, and is already showing signs of wear, it is not in the position to be able to raise those hormone levels without some sort of boost.

From our perspective at WHFoods, there are no insurmountable difficulties in consuming sufficient protein or a good amino acid balance from plant foods alone.

Being in love means that nothing is insurmountable; when the chips are down, you'll be there plugging away at their side.

The comedic presentation does an excellent job at counterbalancing the insurmountable (usually not so glorious) death the player will likely face.

Follow his journey as he combats the stigma behind mental health issues and sheds light on what it's like being at the top of the industry despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

It's just as clear, however, that the film's incongruously languid pace stands as an almost insurmountable obstacle virtually from the get - go, as filmmakers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have employed an episodic structure that becomes more and more problematic as the thin narrative unfolds - with the ongoing emphasis on subplots of a decidedly underwhelming nature (eg Jim's continuing efforts at resisting the advances of a sultry neighbor) compounding the movie's increasingly lackluster atmosphere.

The second insurmountable problem is the difference between Parker's performance as a fortysomething banker, wife, and mother musing (in voice - over) at her computer and her previous performance as a single, thirtysomething girl - about - town in «Sex and the City»: There is none.

An empowering film for children, showing them at their most capable, working through problems and finding innovative solutions to overcome what seems like an insurmountable obstacle.

George, expressing friendship if not romantic interest, takes Christine to dinner and then to a transactional - analysis workshop at which Christine is prompted, by her partner in one of the exercises, to blurt out her interconnected skein of insurmountable problems that, above all, are rooted in her own prickly character.

Rockwell looks young for 47, but his nearly thirty - year career in film creates — for me, at least — an insurmountable age gap when casting him as the star of Pitch Perfect's love interest.

Roberto Benigni — With La Vita é bella Benigni undermines an insurmountable wall for European Cinema, or at least non-English-speaking cinema, and I don't only mean its box - office success and omnipresence at the Oscars.

by Walter Chaw If not for its target - audience ending, Changing Lanes is, in nearly every measure of quality, a Seventies movie about helpless protagonists adrift in the midst of an insurmountable system with which they are eternally at odds.

After this (relatively) gentle opening, things escalate exponentially, but by way of excellent, insightful pacing that ensures you're always playing at the peak of your current abilities, but never pushed beyond them, however insurmountable the odds might at first look.

There inevitably does reach a point, however, at which the thin storyline's lack of surprises becomes an insurmountable obstacle, with the overly familiar atmosphere ultimately exacerbated by plot developments of a decidedly questionable nature.