Sentence examples for are a serious setback from inspiring English sources

Those hopes are still alive but Wednesday's fresh scars are a serious setback.

Even going by the government's numbers, these results are a serious setback for Hun Sen's party: a loss of 22 seats — it used to hold 90 — and of a two-thirds majority, the threshold for amending the Constitution.

He was, he said, "shocked by presumptions of his guilt".The problems experienced by Airbus's new super-jumbo do not threaten the survival of the company, although they are a serious setback.

Losing glyphosate would be a serious setback.

But it is a serious setback for judicial campaign reform.

The coup was a serious setback for democracy in Africa.

"But what has happened now is a serious setback".

Yet failure to ratify it would be a serious setback.That, sadly, is a possibility.

President Obama's failure to make headway in talks with the Taliban is a serious setback.

For all that, Corbisiero's latest orthopaedic breakdown is a serious setback.

The transfer of the commercial harbour to Feodosiya in 1894, however, was a serious setback.