Sentence examples for enormous setbacks from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, the best part of my work is seeing how resilient kids are, even when faced with enormous setbacks.

Now Samsung is suffering an enormous setback.

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister, in 1995 was an enormous setback.

The scale of the layoffs "feels like an enormous setback," she said.

Equally, the decision to award the licence for Britain's first Las Vegas-style supercasino to Manchester was an enormous setback.

Failure to provide adequate safeguards for Britain's financial sector would be an enormous setback to Britain's relations with the EU and would signal that countries outside the euro zone are losing influence.

It is an enormous setback for an area that was only just beginning to recover from the decades-long war and the 2004 tsunami which killed 400,000 people and left 2.5 million homeless.

"The election was an enormous setback for the idea that you can have the best of both worlds – be a radical centre-left party but soil your hands in government.

But what should have been a golden opportunity for Gonzalez to establish himself in an elite league quickly turned into an enormous setback: in his first practice with Nuremberg, he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on a tackle from the club's American right back, Timothy Chandler.

Investigators looking into the circumstances of the blast — a deadly disaster that wounded a community and dealt an enormous setback to what was to be one of the region's most ambitious power projects in years — have barely begun their work.

COPENHAGEN — Vestas, the Danish maker of wind turbines, said Thursday it would cut about a tenth of its workforce after a year of poor earnings and mounting global competition, in what the country's prime minister described as an "enormous setback" for the industry in Europe.