Surmounting all these issues is the central question: what is the commonwealth?

The two are accustomed to surmounting obstacles.

Rank was also often denoted by a coronet, usually either surmounting the shield or placed upon the helmet.

If the Internet appliances on the horizon are to be successful, they will have to do a much, much better job of surmounting their inherent limitations.

As she makes her way into the steeple, she ponders life and the metaphor of surmounting stairs: "

The Society makes use of a symbol of a man's head, surmounting a rayed halo, with a small Latin cross before his mouth.

The center panel shows an eagle surmounting the Government Printing Office seal, and is by Armin A. Scheler.

Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.

But Mr. Bush's advisers said they hoped this latest in a continuing crush of advertisements directed at Mr. Kerry would prevent him from surmounting that hurdle.

The German blazon identifies the "left" key as the one that surmounts the other, although the example shown at the town's own website clearly shows the dexter key surmounting the sinister.

Many labor leaders say it is the most flagrant example of how unions, after surmounting numerous obstacles to get workers to vote in a union, then face a hard time getting companies to sign a first contract.

Surmounting the whole was a gold bar, tapered at the ends like a very thick compass needle, and affixed with a pin that passed through the center of the disk and allowed the bar to revolve.

This is why success in surmounting this stage in a satisfactory manner is so important both for the happiness and future sexual fulfilment of the individual and for the security and success of this civilization.

Some of the torches surmounting the ring of carven pilasters had "uttered and gone out and Moichi led them across the ruins of Ebb Tide Square, toward a darkened section of the perimeter.

Mount McLennan is a prominent mountain rising over 1,600 m at the north side of Taylor Valley, surmounting the area at the heads of Canada, Commonwealth, and Loftus Glaciers, in Victoria Land.

Ruth Ziesak, as Pamina, and Anton Scharinger, as Papageno, proved especially winning, surmounting the monumental scale of the staging and the indignities of the direction with natural charm in both song and gesture.

She received these tokens of returning love with gentleness; she did not shun his company; but she endeavoured to place a barrier in the way of familiar intercourse or painful discussion, which mingled pride and shame prevented Raymond from surmounting.

It represents but an attempt on my part--a very feeble one perhaps--to give the reader what little help I can in surmounting difficulties which a long study of Nietzsche's life and works has enabled me, partially I hope, to overcome.

The extravagant Baroque ornamentation of the exterior was criticised at the time, and matters were not helped when one of the decorative urns surmounting the exterior of the church fell off and killed a passer-by during a procession in 1802.

In a fit of playfulness, Aiken Drum ordered the lights in the city to be extinguished and had Mercy roused from sleep and brought to where he waited on a narrow parapet surmounting the highest spire of the Castle of Glass.

Almost all the national Olympic committees in the world, 161, will come to the Seoul Olympics surmounting ideological, political, religious and racial barriers and enabling the Seoul Games to set a record in the number of participating national Olympic committees and athletes.

Sometimes mistakenly called the crest, the Fraternity Coat of Arms consists of a gold shield with a red bend containing two downward pointing swords and a knotted rattlesnake, surmounting a scroll bearing the date of the Fraternity's founding and the motto in Greek.

He took an elevator down to ground level and emerged from the building through a set of glass doors surmounting a flight of shallow steps, where he stopped for a while to study the geography of this part of the Establishment, especially the approaches to the building he had just come out of.

Rousseau Peak is a peak rising to 272 m in the north of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting Sotos Point to the west-northwest and Fuerza Aérea Glacier to the north, west and south.

We've just surmounted one wall to find another before us.

For one thing, even small differences on an issue can be difficult to surmount.

Already she could see that there were problems ahead of them to be surmounted.

By the end of the novel, however, the problems are surmounted.

And then finally, even if all those problems were surmounted, what of her own feelings?

The wall was solid all around, and too high for him to surmount.

That's a lot of pain to surmount all by yourself.

He was going to surmount all obstacles, each of them.

"But he has a certain technical problem to surmount first."

They surmount a wall about ten or twelve feet high.

But there are major hurdles to surmount during the next two years.

The Baker wall was a rather difficult task to surmount.

The coat of arms is surmounted by a blue star.

Like most such ventures there were problems that had to be surmounted.

You can also see a black cross, surmounted by a small hat.

Grain is a greater problem, but we will surmount it.

The hill was surmounted by trees and what appeared to have once been a small park.

"I felt, sure, we were having problems, but they could be easily surmounted."

In practice, Rivers surmounted the conflict and someone using my name should have known better.

"It was a difficult situation for anybody to surmount," he wrote.

That's not to say that pork has surmounted all of its image problems.

However, after only four months, the club could not face surmounting financial problems, and folded.

The security that problems can be surmounted leads to happiness, he said.

He has surmounted challenges in the past during his long tenure.

But the material is strong enough to surmount such deficiencies.