Sentence examples for a catastrophic setback from inspiring English sources

"Universities in the region and beyond should make every effort to take in Haitian students," she said in a statement, calling the damage to Haiti's education system "a catastrophic setback for a country already hit by other disasters".

News of Theresa May's intention to lift the 50% cap on the number of pupils new faith free schools can choose based on religion has been condemned by the BHA as a "catastrophic setback".

There will always someone whose life was apparently transformed by a grammar school, just as there will always be those for whom failing the 11-plus was a catastrophic setback.

By the time a manic Sarah Palin appeared on Fox at about 10.15 pm, crossing her fingers, and calling a probable Obama win "a catastrophic setback," the network seemed to have completely thrown in the towel.

By early 1968 the Soviet Union was so far behind the United States that the only way they could catch up was if NASA suffered a catastrophic setback.

Losing James was a catastrophic blow.

Despite this catastrophic setback, de Lesseps persisted until he lost more than 30% of his workforce consisting of 20,000 Europeans (1 ).

But it has had catastrophic setbacks.

At the same time, Beachy enlarges our understanding of how the international gay-rights movement eventually prospered, despite the catastrophic setbacks that it experienced not only in Nazi Germany but also in mid-century America.

Unless financial reforms are made to correct this, we will condemn ourselves to building vulnerable cities in the coming decades at the cost of millions of lost lives and livelihoods and billions of lost dollars, often across regions and communities that can least afford these catastrophic setbacks.

The scenarios I've described in this series -- environmental degradation, unchecked climate change and unintended consequences of advanced technology -- could trigger serious, even catastrophic, setbacks to our society.