Sentence examples for local setback from inspiring English sources

The turn is the second recent local setback for Ikea.

Could this local setback be an early sign that Mr Duhalde's national campaign is faltering?With 1.5m inhabitants, La Matanza has the country's fourth-longest electoral roll, after the city of Buenos Aires and the two main regional capitals, Cordoba and Santa Fe.

Although Japanese land forces had experienced local setbacks elsewhere in the Pacific earlier in the war, unlike at Milne Bay, these actions had not forced them to withdraw completely and abandon their strategic objective.

In 1972 73 this led not only to local economic setbacks but to repercussions in the world commodity markets as well.

Before the biennial officially opened on June 28, König and his team faced unfulfilled financial agreements with the city of St . Petersburgand a slew of other local bureaucratic setbacks that forced staff to go unpaid for two months.

The tussle illustrates the ticklish zone that embassies inhabit in the nation's capital, straddling the aloof sphere of national sovereignty and the very local world of setbacks, curb cuts and easements.

So when the gatehouse collapsed in 1240, the locals celebrated the setback.

ROME, Tuesday, April 5 - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition suffered a staggering setback in local elections on Monday, losing several regions.

But the decision was a major setback for local residents and business owners who oppose the project, citing environmental grounds and the city's use of eminent domain to take the land from some 250 businesses.

The $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine faces a significant setback after local landholders launched a legal challenge to the New South Wales government approval process over whether it properly considered the impact of the mine on the local koala population.

SEOUL, South Korea -- President Lee Myung-bak's governing party suffered a surprising setback in local elections that had been widely viewed as a referendum on Mr. Lee's handling of the sinking of a South Korean warship, according to election results released on Thursday.