Sentences with phrase «insurmountable obstacles such»

Your efforts to increase intimacy in order to mitigate your overwhelming sense of loneliness have been met with seemingly insurmountable obstacles such as...

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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.

But he also believes that medical researchers will overcome some of the thorny obstacles to safe and effective therapies — just as once seemingly insurmountable obstacles to kidney transplants were overcome — clearing the way for treatment of diseases such as Parkinson's, blindness, and immune disorders.

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

What are some of the specific insurmountable obstacles Portland faces that prevents us from adopting the major feature that gives Copenhagen and Amsterdam such high ridership compared to even Portland \'s — separated cycle tracks?