Sentence examples for be a setback if from inspiring English sources
While it will be a setback if contact with the satellite is permanently lost, Russia is planning to team up with German scientists to launch a successor satellite, called Spektr RG, later in 2019.
This was a setback, if not quite a catastrophe.
"I believe this is a setback if we treat it properly, and just that, a setback," Mr. Kerry said.
"You're not going to have any slack whatsoever in the system if there is a setback in Venezuela, or a strike in Nigeria or damage to Kuwaiti oil fields, or if Saddam blows up his fields," he said.
South Africa have gone Bok to basics after losing to Japan, while bringing in some younger forwards, and it would not be a setback for the tournament if they went out – but how much do Wales have left in them?
It would be a setback for China's development if the rally turns to rout and investors lose faith.
For all the apparent disdain for the deadline, it would also be a setback for the Iranian negotiators if any agreement brokered in Vienna fell to pieces in Congress, in turn emboldening the deal's enemies in Iran.
President Barack Obama said it would be a setback for America's credibility if the next president wasn't solidly behind the science of climate change.
Will this be a setback for race relations in America if he doesn't?
What would have been a setback would have been if we had lost something on the merits before the Florida Supreme Court.
