Sentence examples for hit a setback from inspiring English sources

It gives us confidence to succeed, by helping us push harder when we hit a setback.

In late March, he hit a setback: a U.S. Customs Office art specialist, sent to London to inspect the shipments, unexpectedly left for the States.

Mr. Obama renewed his call to not abandon health care legislation, which hit a setback when Democrats lost a special election in Massachusetts last month that cost the party its supermajority in the Senate.

He pitched in a rehabilitation game in late July for Class A St. Lucie, but his recovery hit a setback when he reported feeling discomfort shortly after that appearance.

The voting bill hit a setback after a pair of lawmakers who helped introduce the legislation — Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) and Anita Bonds (D-At Large) — flipped positions and declined to vote for it.

Michael Nunn's bid for a showdown with the light-heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. hit a setback yesterday when a hand injury forced his fight in London with Clinton Woods on Saturday to be called off.

The England manager's new captain Rio Ferdinand has hit a new setback in his struggle with a long-standing back problem, with the Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson understood to believe the player should consider limiting his England games after the World Cup.

David Cameron's attempts to claw back powers from Brussels have hit an early setback after a senior EU commissioner insisted that Britain could not simply pick and choose which European cross-border crimefighting powers it wants to adopt in future.

And now the eradication programme has hit a potentially major setback.

He was initially hit with a setback as star striker Papiss Cissé was sold to Newcastle for €12m in the January 2012 transfer window.

But despite promising early studies, the pair hit another setback - a lack of financial backing to move their pioneering work on.