Sentence examples for like a setback from inspiring English sources

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The lone moment of arrival felt like a setback.

What seemed like a setback turned out to be a stroke of luck.

To outsiders, that sounds like a setback for freedom of speech.

Although the controversy looked like a setback for Mr. Mattrick, his departure did not appear to be directly related to it, according to one person.

We're not like China, where Deng Xiaoping could say what goes," he explains.The arrival of a BJP-led government in March looked like a setback for freer trade.

At first that seemed like a setback, but then Turnbull specifically highlihgted the Port Augusta solar thermal project as the sort of thing the fund might support.

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"You think you've come a long way, but then something like this happens, and it just feels like such a setback.

"The loss of a great deputy governor like this is a setback," he said.

"Having a setback like that is all about how you respond to it.

"We haven't had a setback like this in 1,000 years," he added.

Another 1.6 million underwater borrowers have missed payments because of a setback, like job loss, that may prove temporary.

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