Sentence examples for Decisive setback from inspiring English sources

HE MIGHT be flavour of the month in Shanghai, but has the favourite son of "Cool Britannia" suffered a decisive setback in the salerooms of London?It has been a curious fortnight for the artist and sheep-pickler Damien Hirst.

But later in the day, the British government was said to have refused to grant visas to the team, even with Mrs. Clinton's waiver, a potentially decisive setback for the team.

It indicates that American forces and the new Iraqi government they support will probably face some form of organized opposition even if supporters of Mr. Hussein are dealt a decisive setback and he himself is captured or killed.

But since the last, and probably still decisive setback for his campaign in Illinois, Sanders has won 64% of the delegates in a string of more favourable small states that have cut Clinton's delegate lead from 317 to 210.

The nuclear test ban treaty was rejected by the Senate in October 1999 by a vote of 51 to 48, a decisive setback for the Clinton administration given the constitutional requirement that treaties be approved by a two-thirds vote.

The ultimate impression is of a weird evening in which two great actors are left struggling to find their characters, and sometimes even their lines, and in which the great and noble cause of age-blind casting suffers a decisive setback.

An only and apparently beloved child, Mèlanie suffers a life-altering setback during a decisive recital.

They participated in World War I, together with the Russian Empire forces in actions against the Central Powers and, despite initial setbacks, won the decisive battles of Mărăşti and Mărăşeşti.

That victory led directly to the party's first setback of 2019: a narrow but decisive defeat in a state Senate district that had never seemed vulnerable until the rise of Donald Trump.

The air coalition dropped on Kobani more than one third of all the ordnance it has used throughout the campaign and proved decisive in the fight, which was a major setback for Isis.

The speech was Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's first public comment since a landmark agreement last week among Lebanon's political factions handed decisive new powers to Hezbollah and delivered a setback to allies of the United States here.