Sentence examples for i setting back from inspiring English sources

Am I setting back my career?

With Labour hoping for flattering comparisons and possible endorsement, I set back out on a different campaign trail, this time with team Corbyn, to compare notes.

That was the task I set back in June, when I asked all those who care about the public sector to submit a very short story on this huge and profoundly complex subject.

I mentioned the theory of a possible link between hormones, oral contraception and cervical cancer at the dinner and was screamed at by an American academic: apparently I risked setting back women's rights 100 years.

I might have embraced Steinberg's work as I matured, but I was set back by having my nose forcibly rubbed in it by J. I. Biegeleisen, the dean of my vocational high school (the High School of Art and Design, in Manhattan).

And suddenly I was accused of setting back women's causes.

When all was said and done, I was set back over $300, but I gave nary a care, because I'm an actual crazy person.

I was set back on my heels and I had to take a good bit of time before I could formulate a proper response.

According to Feinberg, in the context of the criminal law "harming someone" should presuppose worsening a person's condition, i.e. setting back a person's interests.

"I was doing all right and then I was set back by a few injuries.

"I probably set back the healing process by getting in the water right away," she said.