Sentence examples similar to Set back my development from inspiring English sources

Am I setting back my career?

"Going to university before I was ready could have meant setting back my recovery by months".

The slaughter on the streets will surely radicalize many of them, and set back democratic development throughout the region.

He practiced Wednesday and today, and does not believe the time he has missed has set back his development.

The flood plunged the deeply troubled nation into a humanitarian crisis that is likely to set back its development two generations.

These and other steps set back the development of communal self-government in Germany and furthered the independence of the principalities.

For example, nations such as China were dealing with government suppression and conflicts that set back their development and probably had an effect on the rate at which average heights increased.

Apart from causing considerable suffering to millions of ordinary Falun Gong practitioners (thousands of whom have been sent to labour camps), the campaign has set back the development of civil society generally.

But the earthquake set back the development of the police force, which stands at 10,200 for a population of 10 million, less than half the size it should be, said the police chief, Mario Andresol.

When the core of the reactor melted down at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pa., in March 1979, an event that severely set back the development of nuclear power plants, Mr. Kintner was named to oversee the cleanup.

In the mid-1970s the dearth of venture capital and IPOs set back the development of computer and network technologies that would prove to have such a revolutionary impact in the 1980s and 1990s, says Josh Lerner of Harvard University.