Sentence examples for hitting a stumbling block from inspiring English sources

West Ham, relegated last season from the Premiership, are finding their attempt to make an immediate return hitting a stumbling block at the wrong time.

The initiative comes at the time of another digital divide program in the town hitting a stumbling block.

I asked if he had hit a stumbling block.

He had not even reported for duty before he hit a stumbling block.

Ash, 23, felt the same, but they hit a stumbling block.

The application hit a stumbling block, the person said, over how CME Group would release the public data feed.

The project originated in 2002 after a similar effort by Provo, 35 miles south of Salt Lake City, hit a stumbling block.

The family hit a stumbling block in its quest for a green card when faced with the expensive medical examinations required for most status-adjustment applications.

NAB has looked at selling or floating Clydesdale (and Yorkshire) for decades but hit a stumbling block when the PPI mis-selling scandal broke five years ago.

That hit a stumbling block when he realised they would have to take waste coffee from other sources and not just Greencup.

The seeds of the project date back to 2007, after plans to release a second album by Christmas hit a stumbling block with news of a six-month tour of duty to Basra.