Sentence examples for humiliating setback from inspiring English sources

Such a swift ruling is a humiliating setback for the MoJ.

Where this humiliating setback for Boehner leaves the negotiations with the White House was unclear.

Trump's second-place finish to the conservative senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, was a humiliating setback.

The rebels captured and briefly occupied the city last November, a humiliating setback to the Congolese military.

That loss of territory has handed the Iraqi Kurdish leadership a humiliating setback in their generations-long push for statehood.

In a humiliating setback, the leader of the party, Ulama Hadi Awang, lost his federal parliamentary seat.

The German and French governments have not been alone in suffering humiliating setbacks in local polls.

The background of the next phase of Scipio's life was again Spain, where for years Rome had been engaged in war with the Celtiberians and had suffered a series of defeats and humiliating setbacks.

In the strongest sign yet that her plan to withdraw Britain from the E.U. will fail a crucial vote in Parliament next week, lawmakers delivered a series of humiliating setbacks to Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday.

But the I.N.S. soon suffered a string of humiliating setbacks, including the disclosure in March that a service contractor for the agency mailed visa extensions that month for two of the hijackers who had died in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Acquisitive as he is, Mordashov has had several humiliating setbacks.