The phrase "a setback to a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe an obstacle or hindrance to a particular goal or process.
Example: "The unexpected storm was a setback to a successful launch of the new product."
Alternatives: "an obstacle to a" or "a hindrance to a".
The court punishment that the king subsequently quashed had actually been a setback to a hopeful trend.
However, in a setback to a long-term truce, Kurdish representatives have left Switzerland after not receiving invitations to the talks.
Fresh doubts have been cast over the ordination of women as bishops in the Church of England following a setback to a key piece of legislation.
The decision deals a setback to a flurry of similar cases filed across the country, and it comes at an uncertain moment for both the legal academy and the law profession.
As Wall Street wavered, shares of the airline manufacturer Boeing slid nearly 9percentt as it announced that it would delay the first flight of its 787 Dreamliner, a setback to a critical program for Boeing.
A federal judge has dealt a setback to a lawsuit brought by an Indiana millionaire who accused the accounting firm Ernst & Young and others of selling him a tax shelter that has been barred.
That attack marked a setback to an encouraging trend: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan dropped significantly in the first four months of 2012, and a smaller proportion of the deaths was attributed to coalition and Afghan forces compared with a year earlier, the United Nations director in the country said last month.
A study of interplanetary dust has dealt a setback to an upstart proposal about what drives the ice ages.
"It must be quite a setback to the Navy," Adm. Sushil Kumar, a retired naval chief, told NDTV.
In a setback to Arthur Andersen, a federal judge today denied the firm's efforts to block the government from using a grand jury to continue investigating the destruction of documents related to Enron.
The bank's assets alone total ¥227 trillion $2 trillionn).E.ON, a German utility, received a setback to its euro27 billion ($34 billion) offer to buy Spain's Endesa.
