Sentence examples for great stumbling from inspiring English sources

That judgment was a great stumbling block for Hockney.

The great stumbling block is the same as ever – Gordon Brown.

"I think that it has been public that one of the great stumbling blocks is that the House is not interested in funding the doctors and nurses and space that the VA needs," Sanders said.

Any political strategist would tell me that it's electoral suicide to speak so strongly and decisively against the "white moderates" that Martin Luther King Jr. castigated in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail as "the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom".

Unfortunately, that $300m doesn't secure you a bullpen – LA are ranked 13 of 15 NL teams in ERA, with the relief core representing the teams greatest stumbling block.

That it will not represents one of the great stumbles of any government in postwar Britain.

Now, however, Mr. Abrams casts that same board — then composed primarily of men in their 50's who were far older than the site's target demographic — and the recruits they drafted as the main cause of Friendster's great stumble.

Fear, sometimes, is the greatest stumbling block to this kind of free thinking.

"This bypasses perhaps the greatest stumbling block in the quest for a socially acceptable male contraceptive," the scientists wrote.

Officials of the parent union said today that the recall issue had been the greatest stumbling block.

This left me in a paradoxical position: the greatest resource of the course I was teaching was also its greatest stumbling block.