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stumbling block

NOUN
  1. any obstacle or impediment

How To Use stumbling block In A Sentence

  • It was proving mens rea, the 'guilty mind', that was the stumbling block. Times, Sunday Times
  • But targeting them precisely and avoiding damage to surrounding healthy tissue have proved stumbling blocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • To do so would constitute a stumbling block to the reconversion of Protestants who favored the new astronomy.
  • For Cavour, leader of the unity movement called the Risorgimento, the biggest stumbling block to achieving his political goal was the Catholic Church. Emancipation
  • Perhaps the major stumbling block to reunification is the military presence in South Korea.
  • Let us not, therefore judge one another any more, but _judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way_. Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City
  • Surely this should be a primary aim, not a feeble stumbling block? The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food
  • I've pretty much done the hiragana and katakana sections now, which was a major stumbling block.
  • Our attention is then drawn to the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the question of whether profane work is a stumbling block to spiritual depth.
  • Richard Moon retired from the Board in 1891, removing the main stumbling block to progress in design of coaching stock.
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