After stumbling into this matter, he had tried to right himself by proposing marriage to her.
He made a speech straight off the reel without stumbling over a word.
Mollenhauer in particular was surprised, for he had been looking on Butler's friendship for Cowperwood as a possible stumbling block.
The absence of any experience as a judge was raised by Senate Republicans as a potential stumbling block to her confirmation.
The dan dan mian (noodles smothered in a sauce of peanuts, sesame and chilis) are among the best in the city and makes stumbling into one of Crystal Jade's many outlets worth the trip.
The stumbling block is the mechanistic prediction of cloud cover.
Heavy old nurses were galloping and stumbling around the main halfway.
Though your shambling rotomatic corpse will be slightly better at stumbling through underbrush than your zombie colleagues.
We're only really very good at curing mice of cancer. The stumbling block has been translating basic science into human therapies.
I said, but now, that there could be no good event for him, or thee, or me, who are here wandering together in this gloomy maze of evil, and stumbling at every step over the guilt wherewith we have strewn our path.
His march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.
"One of the biggest and most difficult stumbling blocks at this point is Russia, frankly," says Harvard's Matthew Bunn.
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
So there are two stumbling blocks.
Besides, the negotiations have been going nowhere-and Mr Netanyahu has been the biggest stumbling-block.
The Good: I really like the idea of stumbling onto news, and the ability to quickly scan headlines about a given topic without knowing the source eliminates our media loyalties.
Nim's lips moved silently, stumbling over the ancient Aramaic words.
In many cases, resizing operations can proceed smoothly; however, numerous stumbling blocks can cause problems for the unwary, or even for those who take adequate precautions.
It's a good plan, but the opposition of the local people may be a stumbling block.
Health systems are the stumbling block.
Two years ago, a poll showed that vast Numbers of our closest friends felt that the "mismanagement" of iraq-not the "invasion" of iraq-was the biggest stumbling block for Allies of the United States.
I know this is my biggest stumbling block.
What a pair we must have made, going double like old grandfathers, stumbling like babies, and as white as dead folk.
Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God.
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