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.
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.
It is clear that this election, to choose a successor to Ryutaro Hashimoto, who resigned after the party suffered a decisive setback in upper house elections on July 12, is causing more soul-searching among party members than any in the past.
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.
It indicates that American forces and the new Iraqi government they support will probably face some form of organized opposition even if supporters of Mr. Hussein are dealt a decisive setback and he himself is captured or killed.
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 ultimate impression is of a weird evening in which two great actors are left struggling to find their characters, and sometimes even their lines, and in which the great and noble cause of age-blind casting suffers a decisive setback.
The ministry is also questioning Mr. Neuffer's credentials and, by extension, the foreign news media's coverage of the selection of a new Prime Minister to replace Ryutaro Hashimoto, who resigned after his ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered a decisive setback in Upper House elections on July 12.
The decisive setback suffered last week by Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald - widely seen as the accord's spiritual father - when Irish voters rejected his proposal to legalize divorce, may offer some encouragement to loyalists who cling to the belief that political commitment to the accord is shaky in Dublin and London.
Given the administration's commitment to Iraq, it will nonetheless be difficult for it to deflect attention from any decisive setback in the country.
They participated in World War I, together with the Russian Empire forces in actions against the Central Powers and, despite initial setbacks, won the decisive battles of Mărăşti and Mărăşeşti.
