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Sticking point   /stˈɪkɪŋ pɔɪnt/   Listen
noun
Sticking  n.  A. & n. from Stick, v.
Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. (Eng.)
Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. "But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail."
Sticking plaster, an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.
Sticking point. Same as Sticking place, above.






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"Sticking point" Quotes from Famous Books



... Etorofu, Kunashiri, and Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kuril Islands," occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; Japan and South Korea claim Liancourt Rocks (Take-shima/Tok-do) occupied by South Korea since 1954; China and Taiwan dispute both Japan's claims to the uninhabited islands of the ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States



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