Sentence examples for caused setbacks from inspiring English sources

I think separating responsibility from business operations, while well-intended, ultimately caused setbacks.

The agency wants this to fall to zero by 2005, although recent droughts have caused setbacks: as river flows decrease, the amount of oxygen in the water falls, slowing the natural process of decomposing sewage.The Thames estuary, which was officially declared dead in 1957, is back to life and playing host to Dover sole and salmon.

Although Deng's reforms have brought along plenty of opportunities to both men and women, they've also caused setbacks in terms of gender equality.

The accident in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused setback to the credibility and reliability of nuclear power.

The rate of depletion of natural resources is highest here, which is bound to cause setbacks, but not yet in 2025, and believed to be solved by technology.

After the recent increase in prices, earnings disappointments or other bits of adverse news will likely cause setbacks.

In particular InterAction's February 21 letter argued that use of "impartial international public health efforts for counter-terrorism purposes" undermines the "hard-earned trust that is essential to vaccination and humanitarian efforts" and "causes setbacks in decades-long global health and humanitarian efforts".

The Conservative politician, widely tipped as a future party leader, said that while the illness had caused health setbacks, these would not interfere with her role as a prominent member of David Cameron's government.

War and unrest have caused major setbacks as well although negotiations led by Carter resulted in an interruption in the Sudanese civil war in 1995 that allowed the campaign to go forward.

Though the policies implemented by the FHA were noble, they also caused major setbacks for social integration as white urban sprawl isolated the inner city as a place for only minority groups to live, thereby exacerbating the wealth divide in America by race.

The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB has caused significant setbacks in the effort to effectively treat and cure patients, and highlights the need for new medicines.