Sentence examples for earlier setbacks from inspiring English sources

Nor could the alliance recover from two earlier setbacks.

Earlier setbacks forced the W.H.O. to revise to 2005 its original goal of eradicating polio by 2000.

DESPITE these limitations and earlier setbacks, Mr. Lundh says Terracom is moving ahead with plans to give Rwanda the most advanced Internet infrastructure in Africa.

That fact was not lost on the residents of Perm, who were shocked that the military had not learned from its earlier setbacks.

Meanwhile two other firms, Elan and Wyeth, declared that despite earlier setbacks they are taking bapineuzumab, a drug that removes some of the amyloid from patients, to late-stage trials.In the end, both approaches may be needed.

Garcia's loss, coupled with earlier setbacks by top-seeded Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson (No. 2), David Duval (No. 3) and Ernie Els (No. 5), means that none of the five highest-ranked players in the world will play this weekend.

In 1921 the railroad sold the blockfront south of the hotel to Equitable Life, which echoed the earlier setback with the office building known today as 11 Penn Plaza.

After an earlier setback, the drive to end the secrecy surrounding a pernicious form of campaign fund-raising is gaining in the House.

The union of two smaller rivals into a more formidable competitor comes after an earlier setback last fall, when Anglo American lost out to Rio Tinto in a hostile bid for North, an Australian mining company.

The proposal, approved by Parliament last month after an earlier setback, was shot down last week by the country's highest judicial review body, the Constitutional Council, which ruled that it violated constitutional guarantees of free speech and the presumption of innocence.

The plan was adopted despite an earlier setback, when Albania rejected a request to host the destruction.