If, however, they had visions of posting a defendable total and then throttling England they received a massive setback at the start of their innings.
The surprising strength of Hezbollah's resistance, and its continuing ability to fire rockets into northern Israel in the face of the constant Israeli bombing, the Middle East expert told me, "is a massive setback for those in the White House who want to use force in Iran.
Jonathon Porritt, the Government's top environmental adviser, said that a Johnson victory would be "a massive setback" – and, once in office, the new Mayor seemed to justify the warning.
The latest earthquake is a massive setback for the Nepal as the the impoverished mountainous nation tries to rebuild following April's tragic earthquake that killed more than 8000 people.
If this is accomplished, it will be a massive setback for the respective intelligence agencies of nations across the globe, not to mention the governments on behalf of which they operate as well as any number of non-government entities including banks, multinationals, and religious institutions.
The firm's efforts to elbow into first-party hardware have therefore received a massive setback, writing down the vast majority of the purchase price of its phone business.
In a massive setback for the gay rights movement, 52.5 per cent of the electorate backed Proposition 8, a ballot measure that adds to the state constitution the words: "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California".
Marois announced her resignation on Monday night, with which Quebec's separatist movement was handed a massive setback.
But I was highly disappointed with some of these character traits, and these were a massive setback for me.
