The sticking-point for government bills has long been the Senate, which is evenly balanced.
George Bush has suggested he may go on exploring such a deal, provided it can be verified (Mr Clinton's sticking-point too).
Despite worries that this would be a sticking-point, deals have already been struck with Hungary, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Estonia.
The main sticking-point remains how to increase the firepower of the eurozone's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
But the sticking-point appears to be the Twenty20 competition after a summer where players faced a saturated fixture list which many found hard to swallow.
The sticking-point in all these ventures, fruitful or not, is control.
But the third complaint of the Europeans is the real sticking-point.
The main sticking-point had been the refusal of America's Food and Drug Administration to forgo its right to approve all products sold in the United States.
The sticking-point is those patents, and the insistence of the public project's leaders that Celera make all its data available immediately, rather than sitting on it for months.
To an outsider, Mr Persson comes across as ideally suited to European negotiations: cheerful, shrewd and with a politician's instinctive interest in the sticking-point of the person across the table.
The sticking-point, according to conventional wisdom, is securitisation.
Another potential sticking-point this time is that North Korea is supposed to discuss a plausible list of all other nuclear facilities and materials it has, including any related to uranium, in preparation for declaring and then getting rid of them.
He said private interviews with Iraqi scientists - a key sticking point - had "proved informative", but no interviews had taken place on the UN's terms since 9 February .
No undocumented worker would be eligible for citizenship until the border is considered secure -- a key sticking point for conservatives.
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However, it remained unclear what agreement had been reached on the powers of the army, police and intelligence services - another major sticking point between the parties, our correspondent added.
The sticking point is the so-called public option which would provide a government-funded alternative to private health insurance.
One sticking point has been non-union tours, which are cheaper to produce but do not offer protection to performers.
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Mr Dabbagh said the draft also addressed the issue of immunity for US forces serving - until now a major sticking point in the agreement.
However, a major sticking point is whether a new self-regulatory body should be backed by law.
Those retailers who are sticking with central Manchester point out that the public-transport links to Dumplington are feeble.
Riccitello also pointed out the success of day-one downloadable content, which has been a sticking point for many players who feel that schemes like that are just a way to milk a few more dollars out of a product by releasing an incomplete game.
The biggest sticking point so far has been the idea of a government-funded public option to compete with private insurers.
Another sticking point is that this unit records in a unique high-def format that you can't play on any other device.
The sticking point of the movie is its exorbitant length: two and three-quarter hours does seem like an awful long time to patch up a horse, and a movie that goes straight for your heart should not be allowed to fester.
Under a revitalised Lara, vice-captain Sarwan is bound to flourish, and at this point in time sticking to the devil the Windies know could well be the percentage call.
It appears the major sticking point concerns the depth of the memory layer on which data is written: HD-DVD favors a data layer 0.6mm beneath the surface of the disk, the same depth as on the current generation of DVDs.
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To the uninformed, I would point out that Apple already uses ARM-based processors in its mobile devices, while sticking to Intel processors in Macs laptops and desktops.
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An obvious sticking point in the scientific, political and legal worlds is whether global warming is a function of man-made emissions.
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