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Among the stumbling blocks has been the insistence of Beijing officials that foreign automakers maintain separate distribution channels for imported and domestic-made vehicles.

Said Jake Schmidt of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who participated in a panel discussion here: "Clearly one of the major stumbling blocks has been a lack of leadership at the U.S. level, and that's about to change," he said.

The game, which lets users construct their own highly detailed worlds of buildings, people and animals made out of chunky 3D blocks, has been a hit with children, as many parents can testify.

Perhaps so but it might be a tad too optimistic to say that polarisation between the West, the Islamic world and other ideological and regional blocks has been overcome.

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is known for making some of the finest hardware in the world, but one of its biggest stumbling blocks has been services that rely on an Internet connection.

In addition, relative movement between the blocks has been detected.

Entire city blocks have been abandoned.

Entire city blocks had been emptied.

Aidan noticed the blocks had been removed.

Entire city blocks have been ruined.

The big building blocks have been put in place.