Sentence examples for a severe setback for from inspiring English sources
This would be a severe setback for Internet users.
But the opposition boycotted the vote and a court annulled the result, in a severe setback for the prime minister.
The government has a majority of 63 and the result is a severe setback for Brown because it suggests that Labour discipline is breaking down.
Foreign governments, analysts and some Malians deplored Thursday's coup — in a country that has not had one since 1991 — as a severe setback for democracy in Africa.
A unified chorus of dissent from the family foundations would be a severe setback for a merger that has been given a chilly reception on Wall Street since it was announced in early September.
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.
This was followed almost immediately be a severe setback to the plan for gathering up all the universities under the domination of the Lateran.
President Fernando de la Rúa's critical negotiations with opposition governors to curtail spending fell apart tonight, dealing him a severe setback just before he left for New York to seek emergency international help to avert a complete financial collapse.
Their disappearance is a severe setback to Hassan Khan, a prisoner serving life for a 2007 robbery in West Wickham.
The United States government was dealt a severe setback in its decade-long attempt to prosecute private soldiers for their role in a deadly attack on unarmed Iraqis.
