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"It's a setback, but Brad's still very much in the hunt.

Uber lost $2.2bn£1.77bnbn) in the first nine months of the year despite a surge in revenues, according to reports, adding to the taxi-hailing app's woes as it faces a setback in plans to launch self-driving cars.

The deal ends months of speculation about the future of Telecom Italia, whose suitors had included the telecommunications giant AT&T, and it represents a setback for Telefónica's archrival, América Móvil, owned by the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim.

WHEN Mediaset, a media firm owned by Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, bought the rights to broadcast the matches of the country's top football teams on digital terrestrial television last summer, analysts interpreted it as a setback for Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia.

However, it delivered a setback to Heathrow's hopes of building a third runway by neglecting to mention the airport by name in its statement and making clear other viable options – such as expansion at Gatwick – were still on the table.

It was a setback to Fleetwood's play-off hopes - they sit five points behind sixth-placed Chesterfield with four games of the season remaining.

In his first ever tweet, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein condemned Trump's move stating it was "a setback for the environment and the U.S.'s leadership position in the world". The tweet was a dramatic change in tone for Blankfein, who took a moderate view of Trump's election in statements to the public and Goldman's own workforce.

Two administration officials told The New York Times that Petraeus did not sign off on Obama's decision, and it was a "setback" for the general.

Opposition leaders and legislators expressed concern that it was a setback for Zedillo's campaign against the PRI's tradition of ruling with impunity.

It would represent a setback for BP's rehabilitation".

If a judge does strike down Schneiderman's lawsuit, it could be a setback for the Attorney General, who has vowed to better-police electronic stock trading amid scrutiny into dark pools, high frequency traders and the ongoing mystery of a 2010 flash crash that sent U.S. stock markets tumbling.

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