0 something that prevents action or agreement: --
Lack of willingness to compromise on both sides is the main/major stumbling block to reaching a settlement.
1 a difficulty that prevents progress, understanding, or agreement: --
She therefore makes a conscious effort in her everyday life to overcome what she sees as the greatest stumbling block in her path towards spiritual attainment-her egotism and self-centredness.
The homogeneity you postulated for the group or region has been the most important stumbling block for other researchers to get to work with these concepts.
The phonological structure of sign is a stumbling block in their recognition of sign meaning.
Science and allied philosophy can help us improve on common sense, but they can also become a stumbling block for common sense.
The greatest stumbling block in the way of answering this question is the nature of late medieval medical writing.
A particular stumbling block to radiographers obtaining informed consent for treatment is the paucity of knowledge exhibited generally by them about long term radiation effects.
The stumbling block came in identifying where a homologue of the medial pronucleus derivatives, including the olfactory-recipient mediodorsal nucleus, was located in amphibians.
A great stumbling block to the alliance was that the pragmatists believed in the continuity between facts and values, science and ethics.
