Sentence examples for an unusual setback from inspiring English sources

A11 In an unusual setback for Russia's security services, a jury acquitted a physicist who had been charged with espionage for selling information that he and other scientists argued was not classified.

The appellate court ruling marked an unusual setback for the agency.

In the late tenth century the naval battle of "Innisibsolian" (tentatively identified as taking place near the Slate Islands of Argyll) was won by Alban forces over Vikings, although this was an unusual setback for the Norse.

The settlement is a stunning and highly unusual setback for any law firm, let alone the nation's leading lobbying firm, long a bedrock of the Washington establishment.

Critics agreed that its picturesque 35-story facade and unusual setback design pointed the way of the future for the skyscraper.

This unusual setback came as Malaysian lawyers staged their own protest by marching through the streets of the administrative capital, Putrajaya, in September over alleged meddling in the selection of judges.

(His signature, along with Mr. Iger's, is quite literally on the Shanghai park: The two men signed a castle spire as it was put into place last year). Despite some rumblings to the contrary, Disney has insisted that the park, set to open in June, has faced no unusual setbacks.

When a federal judge barred prosecutors on Wednesday from using a crucial witness in the first civilian trial of a former Guantánamo terrorism detainee, the ruling — widely perceived as a major setback for the government — contained an unusual observation.

Mr. Adams said that the Mowbrays and the De Forests had planned an unusual kind of garden suburb, with unfenced 15-foot setbacks in the front yards of the houses, and had given attention to details other developers usually ignored.

But the result was a severe setback nonetheless.The election of a president—a job with little political weight but, in the right hands, perhaps the power to instruct and hearten the citizenry is an unusual reason for a crisis.

The dismal season is due to both some unexpected setbacks at specific schools and some larger trends in college basketball, including players leaving for the N.B.A. and an unusual stretch of conference realignment.