Sentence examples for damaging setback from inspiring English sources

This race was a damaging setback for the hard right.

But the more damaging setback has been a strained relationship with Coach Rick Pitino, who has grown weary of his talented point guard's swagger and shoot-first mentality.

Only weeks after he entered the Elysée, Hollande, 58, suffered his first damaging setback – and considerable ridicule – when first lady Valérie Trierweiler, 48, used her Twitter account to support Royal's rival in the June 2012 legislative elections.

For a rogue nation that prides itself on threatening the world community, membership in the Axis of Evil is considered essential, which makes North Korea's expulsion from the group a particularly damaging setback.

Only assertive, sustained American diplomacy is likely to keep the conflict from turning into a ruinous ordeal for both Israelis and Palestinians and a damaging setback to American interests in the region.

Tottenham's stuttering Premier League form continued as their challenge for a top-four sufferedfered a damaging setback with defeat at home to Norwich.

He has already suffered some potentially damaging setbacks in the lower courts in recent weeks, and several other important legal decisions affecting his work could come later this summer.

Store things in the right places to avoid costly and damaging setbacks to your work.

"It's image-damaging and is a setback for innovation".

At the National Association of Manufacturers, Jay Timmons, the president and chief executive, called the ruling "a setback for businesses facing damaging regulations from the E.P.A".

Hillary Clinton's efforts to move on from a damaging email controversy suffered their biggest setback yet on Wednesday with the release of an internal report finding she broke multiple government rules by using a private server rather than more secure official communication systems.