Sentence examples for attack and setback from inspiring English sources
To maintain the struggle against every attack and setback was a characteristic of the entire movement.
His love for the game survived many attacks and setbacks.
"In spite of almost unrelenting attacks and setbacks they have never flinched from supporting their football club with all their energy and resolve.
There are evident parallels to Aimee Semple McPherson's daring interruption of the male stronghold on religious authority, to some of the professional repercussions for besting them in respect and effect, to the personal attacks and setbacks she endured, and also to the conservatism of Aimee's own preaching.
To many Afghans these are empty words and actions which the National Unity Government (NUG) issues following attacks and other setbacks.
Overall, SEC enforcement is under legal and political attack, and the Commission must be careful not to allow setbacks on one front to injure it on the other.
By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback.
An army spokesman, Col Sani Kukasheka Usman, called the attack a "temporary setback" committed by "remnants of Boko Haram".
The attack was a setback for President Álvaro Uribe's efforts to rein in indiscriminate violence in a four-decade guerrilla war.
That attack marked a setback to an encouraging trend: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan dropped significantly in the first four months of 2012, and a smaller proportion of the deaths was attributed to coalition and Afghan forces compared with a year earlier, the United Nations director in the country said last month.
"We came here to volunteer, especially to get rid of these people". Although the attack was a setback, American commanders said they hoped it would galvanize local sentiments against the insurgency and drive a wedge between residents and more hard-core followers of Abu Musab Zarqawi's group Al Qaeda in Iraq, which they believed was behind the bombing.
