1. In 2000 and 2004 he was reported near death with heart problems blamed on a cocaine addiction he said he later surmounted.
2. We have surmounted many difficulties to overcome the shock of the Wenchuan earthquake.
3. The unfair treatment towards Asian countries in the current world economic system can only be surmounted by the cooperation among themselves.
4. We have surmounted difficulties and risks arising from the political and economic spheres and from nature.
5. If those blocks can be surmounted both China and Japan would profit.
adj
1. having something on top
e.g. columns surmounted by statues