Sentence examples for largest stumbling block from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

A big stumbling block remains.

This cost, given the perception that a low patient population does not equate to a profit model is one of the largest stumbling blocks for the development and marketing of new childhood cancer specific treatments.

Labor unions, the largest potential stumbling block to legislation that could lead to discipline of public workers, did not attack his proposals in their initial statements, suggesting they might be open to a dialogue.

But reading comprehension may be a larger stumbling block.

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.