Sentence examples for grave setbacks from inspiring English sources

In short -- as documented at length in my book Reagan at Reykjavik -- he set strategic goals on where he wanted to take superpower relations and nuclear weapons; figured out a pathway of how to get from here to there; trusted the leadership team around him; stayed the course during harsh opposition and grave setbacks; and managed to turn such setbacks into strategic breakthroughs.

Mr President, Guatemala, home to an ancient culture, is a country that has, again and again, suffered grave setbacks.

Losing him because of this would be a grave setback and I hope it will be unnecessary.

The triumph of democracy and tolerance in Iraq, in Afghanistan and beyond would be a grave setback for international terrorism.

France could scarcely afford to its security was too tightly bound to Russia's but France's policy of wooing Italy out of the Triple Alliance was a grave setback, not for Germany but for Austria-Hungary.

But the settlement of October 1465 was a grave setback for the king, whose brother Charles gained title to Normandy while Charles the Bold, soon to inherit Burgundy, acquired strategic counties and towns in Artois.

Had Bain & Company collapsed, insiders say, it would have dealt a grave setback to Bain Capital, where Romney went on to build a personal fortune valued at as much as $250 million.

The outcome seems a grave setback to hopes for a solution to the looming international crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions and for détente with the US in response to Barack Obama's overtures.

A wild stock rally followed by a crash, as happened in 2006-07, would be a grave setback.Since looser monetary policy is the right medicine for the economy but a risk for overheated shares, the solution could be stricter regulation of the stockmarket itself.

MOSCOW — The Russian government said Wednesday that it would not renew a hugely successful 20-year partnership with the United States to safeguard and dismantle nuclear and chemical weapons in the former Soviet Union when the program expires next spring, a potentially grave setback in the already fraying relationship between the former cold war enemies.

This week it had another grave setback, as American regulators announced a ban on imports from a new factory that was supposed to solve Ranbaxy's quality problems.In May the company hoped to put its troubles behind it, by agreeing to a $500m settlement with the US Department of Justice.