Sentence examples similar to a compounding setback from inspiring English sources
This approach makes us feel better temporarily, but it comes at a huge cost since we end up compounding a setback with bad decision-making, often costing ourselves more than twice as much in the long run.
Arcturus suffers compound setbacks during the game, initially due to the mass invasion of Dominion space by Zerg forces which catches the Dominion military and Mengsk unprepared, and later from Raynor's Raiders who capture and broadcast proof of Mengsk's war crimes during the events of StarCraft.
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Van Rompuy's "disaster" in Copenhagen was compounded by a further setback a few weeks later when Barack Obama brushed aside Spanish pleadings for a visit to Madrid for a summit with the EU.
He says he compounded that setback by spending more than he should have to buy a 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foote machinery.
The visitors immediately compounded the setback by losing their own line-out ball inside the 22, and Ireland - led by the charging Paul O'Connell - went for the kill.
But somehow, my eclectic wardrobe was regrettably far from Manolo-and-Birkin chic, my romantic life turned somewhat tepid and, compounding those setbacks, my income failed to finance nights at Bungalow 8 or brunches at Balthazar on any regular basis.
Our diplomatic relations suffered a severe setback when our Embassy compounds in Tehran were overrun in 2011 and the Vienna Convention flouted, and when the Iranian Majles voted to downgrade relations with the UK.
