General Sanchez confirmed another setback for American forces: that the American-appointed mayor of Sadr City, a Baghdad suburb of about two million Shiite Muslims, had been killed Sunday.
The four-year-old misses the race at Longchamp on Sunday after suffering a setback, confirmed James Wigan, racing manager to owner Lady Rothschild on Tuesday afternoon.
Some analysts noted that Portugal's latest setback confirmed that courts added another element of uncertainty for politicians on the road to solving the euro debt crisis.
From the blur of conjecture and educated guesses, the Grand National snapped into focus yesterday when Cloudy Lane was, barring any last-minute setback, confirmed as the top weight for Saturday's race.
Nathaniel's setback was confirmed by James Wigan, racing manager to owner Lady Rothschild.
American officials have confirmed that there have been setbacks in both countries, though they have not been willing to discuss the details.
The officials confirmed the details of the setback, which was first reported in Thursday's editions of The Washington Post.
It was expected that Zacinto would take high rank among the three-year-olds this year but Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager to the colt's owner, Prince Khalid Abdullah, confirmed: "He's had a setback.
The announcement, a victory for the Obama administration and a humiliating setback for Mr. Hatoyama, confirmed what the Japanese media had been reporting for weeks: that he would accept Washington's demands to honor a 2006 agreement to move the United States Marine Air Station Futenma to the island's less populated north.
For many Thais, the latest setback confirms what they had suspected since the crisis of 1997-98 -- that their country can no longer depend on the global economy.
In concert with that, the projections indicate, the National Front, the far-rightist, anti-immigrant party that electrified presidential elections in April and May, will suffer a remarkable setback, confirming perhaps that its followers see it more as a statement of dissent built around the personality of its leader rather than as a nuts-and-bolts party machine capable of running the country.
