The phrase "a new setback" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a recent obstacle or difficulty that has arisen in a situation or process.
Example: "After months of progress, the team faced a new setback when the funding was unexpectedly cut."
Alternatives: "a recent obstacle" or "a fresh challenge."
Officials of the World Health Organization fear that news of the outbreak will be a new setback for eradication efforts in northern Nigeria, where vaccinations were halted in 2003 for nearly a year because of rumors that the vaccine sterilized Muslim girls or contained the AIDS virus.
He was arrested and flown to Sierra Leone.But then came a new setback.
Air New Zealand's hopes for financial rescue have suffered a new setback.
Yet every day brings fresh evidence of a new setback, of some supposedly steel-like democracy showing a tinpot underbelly.
No surprise, then, that Mr. Fleisher rebounded easily from a new setback for a concert he presented at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday night.
Page 9 A NEW SETBACK FOR HAVENS The last time Reese Havens was able to practice with his Mets teammates was on Feb. 28.
He replied, "We've been through the worst of times during the past fifty-eight years, and any new setback we suffer can't be comparable to what we've already been through".
It is a prospect that almost strains credulity, given that barely a week has passed in recent months without a jarring new setback for Labour that has compounded its vulnerability.
The decision comes as a relief to gene-therapy researchers who had worried about a potential new setback for their field.
11 War Crimes Judge is Ill Richard May, the British judge who presides over the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, has fallen ill, adding a serious new setback to the two-year-old process, which has been plagued with difficulties from the start.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Syriaia's government suffered an embarrassing new setback as the top general responsible for preventing defections within the military became a defector himself, making what insurgents described on Wednesday as a daring back-roads escape by motorcycle across the border into Turkey.
