Sentence examples for block in the path from inspiring English sources

1937 Ford Prepares to Fight Union NEW YORK — Henry Ford, America's most powerful motor magnate, today [April 8] loomed as a formidable stumbling block in the path of John L. Lewis's hitherto successful drive to unionize the automobile industry.

But Trident would be a serious stumbling block in the path of any deal in a hung Parliament.

It leaves too big a lump in the middle of the Oval Office -- and too big a stumbling block in the path of Obama's presidency.

In case of nested program scopes, the whole inner program scope is a single block in the paths of the outer program scope.

On the other hand, if things don't work out as planned, perhaps its greatest claim to fame will be that of having constituted one of the larger stumbling blocks in the uneven path of the United Nations.

There are almost no large blocks in the travel path, showing the highly fractured property of the sliding mass before it formed the landslide.

The race is on: Netanyahu wants to anticipate any ideas put forward by Barack Obama on the Palestinian issue, in order to block the path of an American initiative that would force him to accept the two-state solution as envisioned by the United States, Europe and the rest of the international community.

Idriss' comments dramatize the many stumbling blocks that still lie in the path of the so-called Geneva 2 talks, now scheduled for Jan . 22in Geneva.

Hungary has closed its border with Croatia to refugees in a bid to block the path of streams of migrants desperate to get to northern Europe as a European deal to stem the crisis looked precarious.

That we might not keep up pace with modernity, and that in doing so, we will block the path of progress of Afghanistan and destroy all its structures in the name of the religion, fundamentalism and ethnocentrism.

Not only is it deceptively fast, but it's pretty much impossible to hide from it as the Wither can and will destroy every block in its path.