Sentence examples for chief stumbling from inspiring English sources

The higher cost associated with such products was cited as a chief stumbling block.

The banks say that a chief stumbling block to continued expansion in the United States has been Canadian officials' refusal to allow them to grow any bigger at home through mergers or acquisitions.

Richard Page, an oceans campaigner for Greenpeace, said that, while the contents of the WikiLeaks cable were "shameful", the organisation could not see how the creation of the MPA was the chief stumbling block to the islanders' return.

In order to win the support of the Greek city-states, whose resistance to subjugation presented the chief stumbling block to the formation of a Hellenistic monarchy, he announced to his assembled army that all the Greeks should be free, autonomous, and ungarrisoned.

Cadle is the chief stumbling block that prevented the teachers from getting their raises in 2010, and according to the Classroom Teachers Association she's clueless when it comes to analyzing budgets and allows staff to do her thinking for her.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund, onetime firefighter for the global economy, is suddenly being called back into action, even as its chief stumbles on his way to the rescue.

Charles Evans Hughes, serving as the committee's chief counsel, stumbled upon evidence that insurance companies had, for years, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee, often listing these disbursements in their account books as "legal expenses".

While many of her fellow chief executives stumbled in recent years, Debra Cafaro, CEO of Ventas, a real estate investment trust that owns nursing homes and other health care facilities, adroitly navigated through the storm.

Once a bunch of raccoons end up mutilated in a nearby forest, police chief Giles Reg E Catheyy) starts stumbling into a conspiracy.

Moreover, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. stumbled over the 35-word oath, causing Mr. Obama to repeat it out of the constitutional order.

When, as a forty-three-year-old Columbia Law School professor, she made a full argument before the Supreme Court, in 1976, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger stumbled when introducing her.