sticking-point

The big sticking-point was the age of its readership.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

The sticking-point for me will be obvious to any bright adolescent: if God is merely an explanation for the first cause of creation, how did God come into being?

Seeking, Searching 2010

The big sticking-point was the age of its readership.

From The Horn Book 2008

But the longer this fight lasts, the more likely that someone will ask Joe Lieberman: you believe this is the sole sticking-point of reform, that everything else in the bill is okay and it just needs to be more expensive?

Matt Osborne: Reid Doesn't Need Lieberman 2009

It has long been a sticking-point with anti-abortion advocates that doctors would only use "health of the mother" as an excuse to provide on-demand abortions.

Deanie Mills: The Religious Right-Wing Has Already Seceded from the Country 2008

However, failure to agree on whether he or Morgan Tsvangirai, who heads the main MDC faction, should head any new administration remains a sticking-point.

Frustration as Zimbabwe Talks Miss Deadline IWPR 2008

The key "sticking-point" is the need to double the entire U.S.

I'll See You at the Bill Signing 2007

Peggy Kamuf was right, in the review I cited earlier, to diagnose as Cultural Capital's sticking-point the deconstructive insistence "on the technicity of the idea, on the iterability of the proper, on the divisibility of any mark of division, and therefore on the necessary contamination of any posed or supposed purity."

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

The sticking-point is Hamas's unwillingness to recognise the existence of Israel, but that could be made a condition for an eventual settlement rather than a precondition for negotiations.

From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

The chief sticking-point here is that groups may adopt views for non-epistemic reasons, not because they aim at truth.

Social Epistemology Goldman, Alvin 2006