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summit

The summit of a mountain is located at the highest point of it. They aim of the mountaineers is to reach the summit of A summit is a gathering or assembly of leaders. They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

summit

a meeting of heads of governments (= breast) reach the summit (of a mountain) They breasted the mountain Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit (= peak, top, tip) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) the view from the peak was magnificent they clambered to the tip of Monadnock the region is a few molecules wide at the summit (= acme, height, peak, pinnacle, superlative, top) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty the artist's gifts are at their acme at the height of her career the peak of perfection summer was at its peak ...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame the summit of his ambition so many highest superlatives achieved by man at the top of his profession

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We could see the summit of a mountain twenty miles away.
Daisuke climbed to the summit.
The mountain climbers reached the summit before dark.
They carried on the summit conference till late.
The mountaineer set out for the summit.
The view from the summit is very nice.
The summit of the mountain is about 2000 meters above sea level.
We took a long hike up to the summit.
We didn't reach the summit.
The view from the summit exceeded his expectations.
Once at the summit enjoy the vista, then on the descent reap the benefits of your hard work.
They succeeded in reaching the mountain summit, but had an accident when coming back down.
The summit of the mountain is covered with snow.
After the summit, President Mitterand said that he dissociated himself from the statement.
The summit of the mountain is covered with fresh snow.
At last, we reached the summit.
We'll make the summit of the hill by noon.
Who first reached the summit of Mt. Everest?
We hope to reach the summit before it gets dark.
I reached the summit of the mountain in exactly five hours.
He climbed to the summit of the mountain.

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Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beetles o'er his base into the sea and there assume some other horrible form which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness?
Close to the western summit, there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard.
This is Pine Summit.
They phoned us up on the summit.
They'll be over the summit in half an hour, sir.
Could anyone live on that fiery summit for 40 days and 40 nights?
In spite of desperate resistance by the flower of the Austrian army our troops have reached the summit of San Gabriele and San Marco.
If you choose to build a mountain of corpses, build its summit as high as you dare.
It's a small summit lesion, and I think we've got it in time.
AND IT LIES BETWEEN THE PIT OF MAN'S FEARS AND THE SUMMIT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE.
It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
And it lies between The pit of man's fears And the summit Of his knowledge.
AND IT LIES BETWEEN THE PIT OF MAN'S FEARS AND THE SUMMIT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE. THIS IS THE DIMENSION OF IMAGINATION.
And while there, did you make a trip to the summit of one of the Dover cliffs?
It was close to the summit.
It's like a precocity of this sinister creature I should feel that my own career had reached its summit.
Another day and we'll reach the summit.
They phoned us up on the summit. I thought you might be interested.
The summit is less than 20,000 feet.
Could anyone live on that fiery summit for 40 days and 40 nights? - Yes!
We should be able to make the summit and back tomorrow, if we travel light. I must have a sack for rock samples.
Why, we argued like a summit.
Early reports indicated that the wrecked plane has been located just below the summit of Bald Mountain, and rescue parties have been formed and planted to the site of the disaster.
The summit of Narayama beckons all of such age.
To the summit. To hand over your papers.
At the summit.
I was the one who pulled you out of yourself when you were nothing but a rat, dragged down in his misery and his confusion, not even daring to raise his head toward the little summit from whence you'd tumbled!
Where's the summit? Please.
That's right - key figure at the latest summit conference.
The charges must be placed on the beacon on the summit of the city and detonated.
You will climb to the summit and place the explosives on the beacon.
In another summit meeting, here just south of Manila, international Scout leaders arrived on Jamboree Island, to discuss international inflation.
I wanted that here on the summit of the hill the land should be his.
The Arabs tried to outbid his invention during the summit.

News and current affairs

Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
After NATO intervention in Kosovo, European leaders made this approach the cornerstone of their vision for the Balkans. It was enshrined in the Stability Pact signed at the Sarajevo Summit of July, 1999.
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, America committed itself to protect global ecosystems, yet little has been seen or heard from US policy makers on this issue since then.
The Europeans could have tipped the balance decisively in favor of the reformers by finally rewarding the efforts of the pro-EU Turks at last December's summit of EU leaders.
A NATO summit, during which all members would take stock of the situation and draw the appropriate conclusions, is therefore long overdue.
When NATO leaders meet for their summit in Riga at the end of this month, there will be a ghost at the feast: Afghanistan's opium.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has declared that the two issues at the center of the G-8 Summit this July will be African poverty and global climate change.
At the political level, the UN is the meeting place for 193 member states to negotiate and create international law, as in the important treaty on climate change adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
Politicians have failed to implement properly the treaties adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit.
CAMBRIDGE: The rich countries meeting in June at the G-7 Economic Summit in Cologne had some interesting things to declare about their relations with the poor countries.
The Cologne Summit announcements so far fall short of these objectives.
In advance of the upcoming G-8 summit, it is impossible to overlook the fact that, for the first time in seven decades, the United States cannot drive the international agenda or provide global leadership on all of today's most pressing problems.
Moreover, the US is emphasizing the importance of the East Asia Summit and ASEAN, whose summit overlaps with the EAS meeting in Phnom Penh that Obama will be attending.
At their June summit, Europe's leaders finally recognized the need to rectify this situation, transferring responsibility for banking supervision in the eurozone to the European Central Bank.
This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much-heralded summit between two of the world's great democracies.
With lucrative deals at stake for the big-ticket products that drive the French economy - military hardware, nuclear power plants, and Airbus planes - France has a strong interest in a successful summit in India.
Indeed, one positive achievement by European leaders at the recent Brussels summit was to begin the process of reining in both the ECB and the power of the American ratings agencies.
It was enshrined in the Stability Pact signed at the Sarajevo Summit of July, 1999.
This is at odds with the EU's proclamations since the 1999 Rio summit that Latin America is a vital political and economic partner.
Even the Copenhagen summit on climate change ended just the way China wanted: failure in its attempt to commit China, or any other industrial nation, to making significant cuts in carbon emissions, with the United States getting the blame.
Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao continually affirms that he will not hold a summit with a Japanese prime minister who goes to Yasukuni, which most Chinese regard as a glorification of past Japanese aggression and colonialism.
The supposedly civilizing influence of being a Western partner - chairing a G-8 summit in Saint Petersburg for example - seems to have been lost on Putin's Kremlin cabal.
These are real questions, yet at the NATO summit people spoke of them more in terms of symbols than as realities.

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