1.   Assuming that a province could surmount these hurdles, it would still have to apply for statehood.

2.   A major hurdle had been surmounted when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani agreed to set aside his longstanding opposition.

3.   People who want to digitize and compress their vinyl albums, cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes will have to surmount other hurdles.

4.   Quintiles insists that it has surmounted Indian hurdles without compromising quality or ethics.

5.   State officials are optimistic that legal hurdles can be surmounted.

6.   There was no indication any justice believes the hurdles can be surmounted.