Sentence examples for fatal setback from inspiring English sources

An almost fatal setback occurred while they were still adjusting to their new landscape.

This move so depleted the forces advancing on Moscow that they failed to capture the city, dealing the German war effort a fatal setback.

One of her sources claimed that he is at present in a hospital in Brazil.If true, that would be a big and perhaps fatal setback for the FARC, which now has perhaps 15,000 fighters.

But I would hazard a bet that, historically speaking, rather than representing a final, fatal, setback for Syria's rebels, Homs will be remembered as an iconic crucible, the turning point in which Syria's uprising became a civil war.

The Tories fear they may have a fatal setback in their attempts to win Dudley North, which is the sort of seat David Cameron needs to win if he is to secure an overall parliamentary majority.

After nearly five years of effort, the $2.2 billion project suffered a potentially fatal setback in June when state legislative leaders refused to approve the stadium, which had been opposed by some neighborhood and civic groups.

The ruling, rejecting the Gore campaign's effort to force the completion of manual recounts in two counties and its complaint about differing machine counts in a third, was seen across the channels as a near-fatal setback.

"It's taken them five years to do 28 miles, so how long will it take them to do 300 miles?" Rail officials called the rulings a setback, not a fatal blow.

Karl Brack, a spokesman for Columbia Gas Transmission, which is developing the New York pipeline, said the withdrawal was expected and, while a setback, was not a fatal blow to the project.

Gone is the idea that the end to this ordeal is imminent, writes Peter King on SI.com, and although it is not a fatal blow to the negotiations, it is a curious setback, writes Jason Cole on Yahoo.com.

A stunning setback, one which many see as a fatal blow to any hopes of contending for a place in Brazil 2014.