Sentence examples for a setback for him from inspiring English sources

"This is a setback for him.

Instead McG's victory was called a "setback" for him.

So this is definitely a setback for him and for us".

That his name wasn't on the list of new ministers announced in a cabinet reshuffle on Oct. 28 isn't a setback for him.

But Mr. Bloomberg, at one point on Tuesday, bristled at the suggestion that the ruling was a "setback" for him as he enters the final months of his administration.

An article yesterday about a judge's ruling that 3 of 20 insurers of the World Trade Center owed payments to the leaseholder, Larry A. Silverstein, for just a single terrorist attack, rather than two, misattributed a quotation that described the ruling as a setback for him.

American officials said his departure represented a setback for them.

The recent Supreme Court ruling on admissions at the University of Michigan, he said, was a setback for people like him, but it was also motivation to keep pushing.

The board has thus far blocked his liquor license, a financial setback for him but a cost-saving opportunity for diners, who can bring their own bottles without incurring a corkage fee.

It's a tough setback for him".

December's airport bombing was a big setback for him.