Sentence examples for A fatal setback from inspiring English sources
This move so depleted the forces advancing on Moscow that they failed to capture the city, dealing the German war effort a fatal setback.
But years passed, the program suffered delay after delay and in 2014, a fatal setback: The spacecraft came apart midflight, killing Michael Alsbury, the pilot.
The Tories fear they may have a fatal setback in their attempts to win Dudley North, which is the sort of seat David Cameron needs to win if he is to secure an overall parliamentary majority.
A Democratic win in a Georgia special election next week — to fill the seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price — could potentially be a fatal setback.
On Monday, Insane Clown Posse, better known as ICP, and a group of self-proclaimed Juggalos, who derive their name from an ICP song called "the Juggla," experienced what could be a fatal setback in a years-long legal battle to shake the FBI's designation.
The governor's initiative proposals, already in trouble with the voters, may have suffered a fatal setback.
"It's taken them five years to do 28 miles, so how long will it take them to do 300 miles?" Rail officials called the rulings a setback, not a fatal blow.
A statement by party leader Nicol Stephen, issued after the party's 16 MSPs held a secret meeting in Edinburgh yesterday, is a potentially fatal setback to Mr Salmond's plans to form a majority coalition at the parliament in Holyrood.
Karl Brack, a spokesman for Columbia Gas Transmission, which is developing the New York pipeline, said the withdrawal was expected and, while a setback, was not a fatal blow to the project.
But I would hazard a bet that, historically speaking, rather than representing a final, fatal, setback for Syria's rebels, Homs will be remembered as an iconic crucible, the turning point in which Syria's uprising became a civil war.
After nearly five years of effort, the $2.2 billion project suffered a potentially fatal setback in June when state legislative leaders refused to approve the stadium, which had been opposed by some neighborhood and civic groups.
