Sentence examples for a setback said from inspiring English sources

"A failure is a setback," said Doug McCuistion, the Mars exploration program director.

"It is a setback," said Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Congress party's leader in the upper house of Parliament.

"He's had a setback," said Anthony Sabino, a law professor at St . Johns University, but chances are that Mr. Picard will prevail on the safe-harbor question.

"It's like one thing comes out that's good, and then it's just a setback," said Ms. Workman, who has become an advocate for people with myeloma.

"This was a setback," said Larry Johnson, who tried in vain to guard Duncan, and left with 10 points and a technical foul.

"In purely political terms, this is indisputably a setback," said one Democratic strategist, noting that Mr. Carnahan had taken a slim lead in recent internal Democratic polls.

Other Bush officials sought to portray the outcome as less than a setback, saying they were pleased that, as the details are being worked out, the commission is still considering the kind of informal formats Mr. Bush had sought.

If Lester is dismissed, coastal protection will suffer a serious setback, said Les Strnad, a 25-year veteran of the agency and a former deputy director for the central California district.

"In the face of this unpredictable change around the Arab world, Turkish foreign policy is facing a major setback," said Sami Kohen, a columnist for Milliyet, a daily newspaper in Turkey.

"We see this as a temporary setback," said Sebastian Brett, a human rights researcher for Human Rights Watch in Chile.

"It's clearly a major setback," said Harry Katz, a professor of labor relations at Cornell, where graduate students voted, 1,351 to 580, against unionizing last October.