Sentence examples for disastrous setback from inspiring English sources

Anger like his over American foreign policy has led to a disastrous setback for the global effort against polio.

It's a disastrous setback, no matter how much administrators try to spin it as an opportunity for new ventures.

That has stirred a fierce debate over whether the term is a triumph for women, or a disastrous setback.

Overturning the ruling would be a disastrous setback, and all those who care about human rights in Africa should pressure President Jacob Zuma of South Africa to let the decision stand.

Critics said the review was another disastrous setback but Tidal Lagoon Power put a brave face on the announcement saying it was a "clear signal" that ministers could see the advantage of this innovative technology.

The unseemly race between British and American forces to be the first to reach Rome was the culmination of a series of blunders by the Allies, including a disastrous setback on the Rapido River, and at Anzio, where they were nearly thrown back into the sea.

They will all need to avoid "disastrous setbacks," he says, and many of them will need to combat "corruption".

But, at a time when the company should have been celebrating XR's approval, AHP began to bog down from a series of disastrous setbacks.

Two, Orbital Sciences and Virgin Galactic, had disastrous setbacks this fall.

Mr. Obama swamps Mr. McCain by 62percenttoto 28percentt — a disastrous G.O.P. setback, given that President Bush took 44percentt of the Hispanic vote in 2004, according to exit polls.

The back-stabbing bonhomie among bureaucrats, marketing types and over-sensitive creative artistes as they struggle to overcome a string of near-disastrous organizational setbacks has a ring of truth, though it is no doubt a million miles from reality.