Sentence examples for a setback occurred from inspiring English sources

It became the Great Depression because once a setback occurred, a financial system based on gold was so shaky that normal recovery was difficult and, perhaps, impossible.

A setback occurred in the U.S. Congress's first pass at health reform legislation when the Congressional Budget Office presented cost figures higher than the administration's numbers.

A setback occurred when a typhoon struck the Haiphong area, destroying almost half of the refugee staging area.

This the Campbells eventually achieved although a setback occurred during the Civil War when a Covenanter army under Sir David Leslie arrived on the island in 1647.

A serious setback occurred when 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger died in a University of Pennsylvania gene therapy trial for ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency in 1999.

But a major setback occurred in 1994 in the shape of the Kenneth Branagh movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

A major setback occurred partway through the project when Dr. Chiang found he could gather data five times as fast if he recorded the neuron images in a different way.

A dramatic setback occurred when Charles VIII sent his fiancée Margaret back to her father and required Anne to sever her marriage with Maximilian and to become the queen of France.

By ad 60 much had been achieved; Suetonius Paulinus, governor from 59 to 61, was invading the island of Anglesey, the last stronghold of independence, when a serious setback occurred: this was the rebellion of Boudicca, queen of the Iceni.

A major setback occurred in 2007, when one of the walls of Woolsthorpe top lock had to be propped to prevent it collapsing, and British Waterways took the decision to fill it in, as funding was not available to rebuild it.

Another setback occurred in 2009, when a woman claimed to have suffered a head injury.