Sentence examples for a humiliating setback from inspiring English sources

Such a swift ruling is a humiliating setback for the MoJ.

Trump's second-place finish to the conservative senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, was a humiliating setback.

The rebels captured and briefly occupied the city last November, a humiliating setback to the Congolese military.

That loss of territory has handed the Iraqi Kurdish leadership a humiliating setback in their generations-long push for statehood.

In a humiliating setback, the leader of the party, Ulama Hadi Awang, lost his federal parliamentary seat.

If the Justices throw out the individual mandate or strike down the entire law, it will be a humiliating setback for the President.

New SFO director David Green QC swiftly issued a statement insisting that despite the humiliating setback the agency would press on with its inquiries "with renewed focus and vigour".

Now there is a danger the war may resume.It is yet another humiliating setback for those who have advocated talking to a man wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

The company will suffer a humiliating business setback and lose a considerable amount of money if it fails to get the licenses.

The hilarity ensues when a humiliating career setback forces him to return and once again be teamed with the woman who was his professional (and personal) partner, played by Patricia Heaton.

At the end of a week that has seen government forces experience their most humiliating setback in months, the exchange of prisoners and the stated willingness of both sides to withdraw heavy weapons do suggest a glimmer of hope that the Minsk agreement could yet be implemented.