Sentence examples for a severe setback after from inspiring English sources

Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has suffered a severe setback after it emerged Scotland would have to apply to join the European Union if it votes to leave the UK in the 2014 independence referendum.

His killing, less than a year after he took office, was a severe setback for the Kremlin's ambition of containing the war in Chechnya and convincing the world that stability in the Caucasus was at hand.

► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Research V,  "less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise," on Taiwanese science, calling it "a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields".

On the left, Labour suffered a severe setback.

This would be a severe setback for Internet users.

The case was a severe setback to the use of the secondary boycott by unions.

The legitimate uses for P2P technology may thus suffer a severe setback.

Their disappearance is a severe setback to Hassan Khan, a prisoner serving life for a 2007 robbery in West Wickham.

On the whole, I believe that the consequences of the crackdown have been a severe setback to the government.

Most industries consider the loss of a few percentage points in their market a severe setback, even a catastrophe.

But the opposition boycotted the vote and a court annulled the result, in a severe setback for the prime minister.