Sentence examples for encountered major setbacks from inspiring English sources

Even the most successful encountered major setbacks along the way.

Obama is encountering major new setbacks in Afghanistan, America's biggest unilateral operation despite its NATO trappings.

Speculation aside, Bear Stearns encountered two major setbacks Monday: Moody's downgraded a bunch of its mortgage deals with another bundle of its notes on the block and consequently its costs to insure credit default swaps surged.

In addition to its ride-hailing service, it offers takeout food delivery (Uber Eats), and its engineers are developing vertical-liftoff aircraft (Uber Elevate) as well as driverless cars — a project that is consuming vast resources, and that encountered a major setback in March, when a pedestrian in Arizona was killed by one of Uber's autonomous vehicles.

In 1998, the chain encountered its first major setback after it expanded into the North of England with five outlets in Nottingham, York, Manchester, Harrogate and Leeds.

Along the way, as the film demonstrates, the workers faced several major setbacks, including encounters with underground union busting consultants, mass arrests of supporters by the police, hostile encounters with detractors on the picket line and the bakery owners' attempt to shut the business down.

This month contemporary pop music received two major setbacks.

One of the major setbacks of road construction in most flood plains is their geological incompetence.

BP experienced major setbacks yesterday.

Skaggs has had no major setbacks.

However, UBS suffered major setbacks in 2007, 2008 and 2009.