Sentence examples for be a serious setback from inspiring English sources

Losing glyphosate would be a serious setback.

This would be a serious setback for American oil interests and investment in that region.

Any problems with torcetrapib would be a serious setback for Pfizer, the world's largest drug company.

If the advance holds, it would be a serious setback for opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

But it would be a serious setback were one of the more active of America's NATO allies to quit Afghanistan.

But tensions with Pakistan will remain a major foreign-policy distraction, and another war with Pakistan would be a serious setback for India's global ambitions.

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".

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.