stumbling-blocks

There are little discrepancies across the five books, a name that changes spelling, inconsistencies about ages, which may be accidental but are more likely to be little stumbling-blocks placed in the path of the identifications the author was the first to suggest.

At Last by Edward St Aubyn – review 2011

These bilateral agreements are increasingly stumbling-blocks, not building-blocks for easier multi-party commerce.

State Capitalism: Free Trade's Real Enemy Marc De Vos 2010

These bilateral agreements are increasingly stumbling-blocks, not building-blocks for easier multi-party commerce.

State Capitalism: Free Trade's Real Enemy Marc De Vos 2010

After taps -- that is, when by the regulations of the Academy all the lights were supposed to be extinguished, and everybody in bed -- Slocum and I would hang a blanket over the one window of our room and continue our studies -- he guiding me around scores of stumbling-blocks in Algebra and elucidating many knotty points in other branches of the course with which I was unfamiliar.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

These bilateral agreements are increasingly stumbling-blocks, not building-blocks for easier multi-party commerce.

State Capitalism: Free Trade's Real Enemy Marc De Vos 2010

Over at Axcess News, Dave Porter takes an in-depth look at recent studies on the growth of internet advertising, and points out the opportunities and the potential stumbling-blocks.

Online Ads See Slowing Growth, Still Kicking Butt 2007

Martial and Petronius, because “veiled in the decent obscurity of a learned language”; he allows men Latinè loqui; but he is scandalised at stumbling-blocks much less important in plain English.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Forcing people together – women into a formerly all-male environment, other ethnicities into a former homogeneous area or so on, creates tension, resentment and exacerbates minor differences into major stumbling-blocks.

Archive 2008-06-01 David Hadley 2008

Forcing people together – women into a formerly all-male environment, other ethnicities into a former homogeneous area or so on, creates tension, resentment and exacerbates minor differences into major stumbling-blocks.

Discrimination David Hadley 2008

She also removed the stones lest haply they prove stumbling-blocks to some Moslem foot.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006