| In the oceans, characteristic fringing reefs develop around the volcanic islands surmounting hot spots, as in Hawaii, or the mid-oceanic ridges. |
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| Mac the Mouse takes an excursion into the unknown meeting monsters, fighting fiends and surmounting the impossible. |
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| Ray florets are much larger, with an 8-12 mm long, yellow, three-lobed, strap-shaped ligule surmounting a short corolla tube. |
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| The universities decided to deploy a videoconferencing system in nine locations as infrastructure for surmounting adverse geographical factors. |
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| But simple humanity demands that we must strive to find ways of surmounting this problem. |
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| One of the surest ways of surmounting that difficulty and promoting transparency was by recourse to independent monitoring mechanisms. |
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| Then again, the law has often met obstacles that appeared insurmountable, before soon surmounting them. |
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| Over the next five years, the syndicate worked tirelessly, surmounting enormous difficulties to push the project through. |
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| The importance of the CQP as a tool for assisting producing countries in surmounting the recent coffee crisis was highlighted. |
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| The islands are low coral caps surmounting submerged extinct volcanoes. |
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| We see this as the key to surmounting the fragmentation of the European market. |
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| He found a way of surmounting tension so as to develop, on the basis of age-old African wisdom, the forces of tolerance and dialogue. |
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| The figure surmounting the quills represents an unidentified flying object, about which Mr. Colombo has written. |
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| The example in Plate VIII is activated by pressing the cabochon garnet surmounting the rock crystal dome, under which a nephrite frog climbs a silver-gilt ladder. |
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| In some cases, the surmounting of challenges is linked to an increase in spending money for the candidates involved. |
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| Big obstacles remain, and diplomats privately acknowledge the long odds against surmounting them. |
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| Creating them involves surmounting vast distances: Tijuana is roughly as far from Punta Arenas as the Shetland Islands are from Cape Town. |
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| Awareness-raising programmes, encouragement of women to join the Diplomatic Corps, and the surmounting of obstacles posed by the family. |
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| Similarly, national social dialogue in Barbados in the 1990s focused on surmounting economic crises while minimizing lay-offs and social hardship. |
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| Although around two-thirds of Czechs oppose the radar, the government seems confident of surmounting the final hurdle, a vote in parliament. The Polish approach is more muscular. |
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| With the recent surge in market optimism, combined with thin trading at the end of the month, the Japanese Yen has faced surmounting downward pressure as safe-havens are losing their appeal. |
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| In this respect the main winners will be small businesses, for it is they that experience the greatest difficulty in surmounting these administrative obstacles. |
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| Throughout Roman, medieval and modern times, the sheep population of Navarre has prevailed, surmounting the crises and huge changes the rural world has undergone this century. |
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| It was noted that economic growth was vital to generating wealth, creating employment opportunities, surmounting poverty and establishing the foundation for long-term sustainable peace. |
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| Although we are still surmounting the financial and economic crisis at the outset of 2010, the uncertainties surrounding the financial markets have continuously dissipated in recent months. |
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| Moving towards mixed-use building entails surmounting a number of technical obstacles, such as fire security regulation that varies according to the use or type of a building. |
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| After having criticized several bank directors, they also started to point the finger of doubt at certain politicians whom they judged to be too weak or incapable of surmounting the obstacles that faced them. |
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| Its aim is to use cooperation among all of the interested parties at European level in order to find ways and means of surmounting the difficulties which this sector is still encountering in several Member States. |
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| Dacians are represented in the statues surmounting the Arch of Constantine and on Trajan's Column. |
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| A more challenging route climbs out of Deepdale, veering into the lower part of Link Cove before surmounting Greenhow End and The Step. |
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| Profil, in paint on board, presents a yellow bloom of pigment surmounting a thin stem or neck, with a smaller, amoeboid shape cut into it, all against a black ground. |
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| Surmounting the whole structure will be the staff for the flag, and the tower and flag will form one of the landmarks at Valley Forge. |
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| Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles. |
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