Sentence examples for in a sharp setback from inspiring English sources

The conservative People's party, in a sharp setback, fell far short of the majority that enabled it to govern alone for the last four years.

In a sharp setback for the nation's broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission decided today to deny television stations the right to force cable companies to transmit both their digital and analog signals as they slowly convert to high-definition television, agency officials said.

And the comments flared even before the apparent victory this week by Islamist militias in the country dealt a sharp setback to American policy in the region and broke the warlords' hold on the capital, Mogadishu.

In Greece, the governing conservatives suffered a sharp setback in the elections, seen as an acid test for Kostas Karamanlis, the prime minister.

Substantial recovery started in the 1960s, only to suffer a sharp setback in the early '70s, when the bulk of the U.S. Navy's operations in the state were reassigned elsewhere.

It followed two hours of oral arguments at an emergency hearing this morning by a three-judge panel in Philadelphia and was a sharp setback for the largest media companies and for the commission's chairman, Michael K. Powell.

That campaign suffered a sharp setback in September when the judge in the case, Eugene H. Nickerson, issued a sharply worded opinion denying Mr. Schwarz's request for a new trial.

The balloting at the Democrats' state convention in Springfield on Saturday was a sharp setback to Lieut.

But safety experts say that criticism is unwarranted, and that Ms. Gall's philosophy, if put in force at the agency, will lead to a sharp setback for consumers.

1963 Peronists Weaker, Illia Ahead BUENOS AIRES — Arturo Illia today piled up a commanding lead in returns from a Presidential election yesterday [July 7] that dealt a sharp setback to followers of former dictator Juan Peron.

That was in 1998, when it slashed rates by half a percentage point on fears of a sharp setback to the global economy.