Sentence examples for a stunning setback from inspiring English sources

Representative Marcia Fudge, a Cleveland Democrat, called the ruling last year "a stunning setback".

With 57 going to the nine-month-old Movement for Democratic Change, it was a stunning setback for Mr. Mugabe.

In August 2009, the judge ruled Bout could not be extradited in a stunning setback to the US embassy and its "Bout team".

The government suffered a stunning setback in the March general elections when a three-party opposition alliance led by Anwar won five of Malaysia's 13 states and left the government with less than a two-thirds majority in parliament.

The Wednesday ruling was a stunning setback to Mr. Li, the son of one of Asia's richest men, and handed a major victory to the city's increasingly assertive regulatory authorities.

A1 Liberals Lose Ground in Kuwait Kuwaiti liberals suffered a stunning setback in weekend parliamentary elections, with Islamic traditionalists, both Sunni and Shiite, taking more than a third of the seats, according to early unofficial results.

The setback is a stunning reversal for a politician who once enthralled the country.Osaka's economy is in the doldrums and its finances deep in the red.

But a gruesome lethal injection gone wrong in Oklahoma has dealt death penalty supporters a potentially stunning setback this week, coming at a time when popular support for capital punishment has fallen and reliable lethal-injection chemicals are becoming harder and harder to get.

But Ms. Bell is perhaps best known for a stunning professional setback.

That in turn helped bring a stunning electoral setback in March: the ruling coalition saw its majority slashed.This was exciting in itself, because Malaysia has been, in effect, under one-party rule since independence from Britain in 1957.

There was no repeat of last year's stunning setback, when Carfrae was on the verge of taking the lead in the marathon.