Sentence examples for larger stumbling block from inspiring English sources

But reading comprehension may be a larger stumbling block.

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.

The largest stumbling block to a consideration of one-way missions is probably political.

The issue of Georgian refugees is likely to remain the largest stumbling block.

School aid has become the largest stumbling block in the budget talks.

A large stumbling block is the utilization of the fairly extensive literature in social psychology related to risk avoidance, in formal mathematical decision frameworks based on probabilistic analysis.

Fuel costs are destroying airline business models, and analysts now note that transportation costs, and not tariff barriers, constitute the largest stumbling block for international trade.

United has been operating under bankruptcy protection for almost a year, and its executives have said that the large, required pension payments are its single largest stumbling block as it works to emerge from bankruptcy.

Executives close to the discussions between Lucent and Alcatel said the largest stumbling block to a deal was simply whether Lucent's board was willing to sell when the company's stock has been pummeled and is trading in the single digits after being as high as $77.78.

He describes how "Cartesian Solipsism," the dominant approach to epistemology in modern philosophy, has become a large stumbling block, for it starts with mind and sense data and "works its way out to the external world" and for that reason is prone to skepticism.

For those who work in the same medium as their parents, the problem of "influence" has been the largest stumbling block in establishing their own identity as artists -- and possibly as individuals.