Sentence examples for combat setbacks from inspiring English sources

But Web sales and such will never offer Kodak the lush profit margins of conventional film, and that means the company has less leeway to combat setbacks.

ISIS emerged from the turmoil of the Syrian conflict but later suffered setbacks in internecine combat.

Almost 200 nations have agreed to work out a new deal by the end of 2015 to combat climate change, after repeated setbacks.

The abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change has been condemned by former ministers as a major setback to British efforts to combat global warming.

Trees covering an area more than seven times the territory of New York City have been cleared in the Brazilian Amazon over the past year, in a major setback for government efforts to combat deforestation.

Despite the setback, pupils had been able to combat their fear of water and heights, and saw cows in a field for the first time, he says.

The setbacks and rounded edges of the building combat vortex formation which may occur in the "Windy City".

The group's report is a setback for doctors and researchers trying to combat one of the major scourges of the twentieth century.

And Mr. Vance's aides moved aggressively to combat the impression that they had suffered a major setback, issuing a statement that ignored the officers' acquittal on rape charges and trumpeting the far-less-serious misdemeanor convictions.

These new data additionally have important implications for therapeutic strategies that target and inhibit telomerase activity in more advanced human cancers, given that initial attempts to combat various cancer types using telomerase inhibitors have suffered some setbacks (Williams, 2013).

The fall of Kunduz marks a major setback for government forces, who have struggled to combat the Taliban since the US and NATO shifted to a supporting role at the end of last year.