Sentence examples for bitter setback from inspiring English sources

Meles's most bitter setback was the outbreak of the 1998-2000 withwith Eritrea.

For the prime minister it represented a second, bitter setback in under two weeks.

2. In a bitter setback for environmentalists, the bill opens portions of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.

But aside from the economic consequences, it would be an especially bitter setback for European integration as well as Europe's role in the world.

For Republicans, especially the conservatives who have dominated the party for nearly three decades, the night represented a bitter setback and left them contemplating where they now stand in American politics.

It was a bitter setback to a movement that had believed it was on the brink of victory after a series of stunning successes, including the withdrawal from the project of the World Bank.

Being radical guarantees that you'll have to deal with enemies, obstructive vested interests and bitter setbacks.

We may also have to steel ourselves, as victory appears in sight, for some more bitter setbacks in the long Egyptian battle for self-determination.

Grozny was the scene of some of the Russian military's most bitter setbacks in the first war in Chechnya, which lasted from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in the de facto independence of the breakaway republic.

BERLIN — In a bitter political setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany's defense minister resigned Tuesday under pressure over his admission that he had plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation.

Several billionaires suffered a bitter professional setback early in their careers that heightened their fear of failure.