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But later in the day, the British government was said to have refused to grant visas to the team, even with Mrs. Clinton's waiver, a potentially decisive setback for the team.

But since the last, and probably still decisive setback for his campaign in Illinois, Sanders has won 64% of the delegates in a string of more favourable small states that have cut Clinton's delegate lead from 317 to 210.

The nuclear test ban treaty was rejected by the Senate in October 1999 by a vote of 51 to 48, a decisive setback for the Clinton administration given the constitutional requirement that treaties be approved by a two-thirds vote.

Losing Aleppo would be a critical setback for opposition forces.

Given the administration's commitment to Iraq, it will nonetheless be difficult for it to deflect attention from any decisive setback in the country.

HE MIGHT be flavour of the month in Shanghai, but has the favourite son of "Cool Britannia" suffered a decisive setback in the salerooms of London?It has been a curious fortnight for the artist and sheep-pickler Damien Hirst.

The air coalition dropped on Kobani more than one third of all the ordnance it has used throughout the campaign and proved decisive in the fight, which was a major setback for Isis.

To be clear, there is no doubt that a decisive rebel victory in Syria and the fall of the Assad dynasty would constitute a major setback for Iran, given that Syria has always been Iran's most reliable pathway to its proxy Hezbollah.

The decisive support for Juncker after an unprecedented vote among EU leaders for a commission president marks a major setback for Cameron, who had thought key EU allies would oppose his nomination.

The decisive rejection of the American shift of position on Jerusalem, on the world's biggest diplomatic stage, was a setback for a president who is still looking for a major foreign achievement after nearly a year on the job.

Personal Setback for Gorbachev?