What is "stumbling blocks"

Usage examples of "stumbling blocks".

One of the main stumbling blocks, he says, is that the Indian lives almost entirely outside the money economy.

So without more ado, let's have the rest of itor is this perhaps one of your stumbling blocks?

A place where they die for no reason other than that they are irritations and stumbling blocks.

The earlier chapters have disposed of other alleged stumbling blocks, and the next chapter takes up yet another one, the idea that natural selection can only destroy, never construct.

I did not look up to that wonder, and I was only thankful for the rays which made it possible to see the worst of the possible stumbling blocks before me.

One of the main stumbling blocks was the choice of a location for the talks.

It was a room that had been made safe for a blind man, with no unexpected stumbling blocks.

Crops were taxed to the limit-there were all sorts of restrictive stumbling blocks.

Sporadically moonless and starless, the night concealed stumbling blocks, rude fountains and other obstacles.

It was the result of a hundred delays and stumbling blocks and petty interruptions that had dogged him for almost a year now.