Sentence examples for a financial setback from inspiring English sources

When he was around 12, his father suffered a financial setback, and the boy dropped out of school to help the family financially, farming and running a trap line.

Has your family suffered a financial setback?

Michael, it turns out, had just suffered a financial setback.

The dismissal, rather than becoming a financial setback, seemed only to inspire Romi's entrepreneurial instincts.

They often attributed the sudden illness of a child, a household disaster or a financial setback to a witch's curse.

Crop failure for farmers is not merely a financial setback but a disaster that could push families into abject poverty.

Roth once told an interviewer that when he was a child his father suffered a severe financial setback, and that the courage he showed in fighting his way back from that made him seem to his son a cross "between Captain Ahab and Willy Loman".

The absence of an emergency savings fund can lead to a severe financial setback.

But because many workers have nearly doubled their pay with extensive overtime for the last seven years, this could still represent a small financial setback for many families, as well as a warning that the economy might not be as strong as it once seemed.

"Even when [my rich dad] was flat broke after a major financial setback, he continued to refer to himself as a rich man," Kiyosaki writes.

It is a major financial setback for the owners who, faced with an unprofitable baseball operation, have already been forced to sell a portion of the team just to stop the bleeding of money.