Insuperable

It seemed like an insuperable challenge, but with determination, Tom overcame it.

Tom's agoraphobia often seems like an insuperable challenge.

The odds seemed insuperable.

The language barrier proved insuperable.

Regular services for passengers and goods were maintained for almost 50 years, but the speed limit of 16 m.p.h., imposed by the Board of Trade, proved an insuperable handicap after the introduction of competitive motor bus services.

While Indian English may not have a uniform standard form throughout the country, this in itself is not an insuperable obstacle for lexicography.

The basic problem before the court on Wednesday is that there is a Supreme Court case pretty closely on point – United States v. Bestfoods – in which the justices rejected the government’s argument that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act was such an important statute that it should create an exception to traditional state-law doctrines that require a high (indeed, all but insuperable) bar for actions seeking to ignore corporate identities and, in the common phrase, “pierce the corporate veil.”

Underground stations were also slated for closure, and there were plans for massive ring roads to cater for the ever-growing numbers of people commuting into town by car. […] However, it soon dawned on politicians that this was unsustainable. Much of London would have had to be demolished to make way for the ring roads, and parking was becoming an insuperable difficulty.

For the first time I steadily reviewed the obstacles—and to consider them was at once to see they were insuperable.