Sentence examples for massive setbacks from inspiring English sources

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Decade's top five 1 Ferrari The combination of Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher and five championships in succession proved why F1 would be much poorer without the charismatic Italian team. 2 McLaren Bland but memorable for consistent excellence and the ability to overcome massive setbacks.

He said: "We have had some massive setbacks this season, with the Doncaster game and now this.

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Marois announced her resignation on Monday night, with which Quebec's separatist movement was handed a massive setback.

But I was highly disappointed with some of these character traits, and these were a massive setback for me.

If, however, they had visions of posting a defendable total and then throttling England they received a massive setback at the start of their innings.

The latest earthquake is a massive setback for the Nepal as the the impoverished mountainous nation tries to rebuild following April's tragic earthquake that killed more than 8000 people.

Jonathon Porritt, the Government's top environmental adviser, said that a Johnson victory would be "a massive setback" – and, once in office, the new Mayor seemed to justify the warning.

The surprising strength of Hezbollah's resistance, and its continuing ability to fire rockets into northern Israel in the face of the constant Israeli bombing, the Middle East expert told me, "is a massive setback for those in the White House who want to use force in Iran.

In a massive setback for the gay rights movement, 52.5 per cent of the electorate backed Proposition 8, a ballot measure that adds to the state constitution the words: "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California".

At about the same time the Texas senator sent out his incendiary tweet, Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, tweeted out a message describing Scalia's death as "a massive setback for the Conservative movement and our COUNTRY!," but, at least at first, he didn't say anything about preventing President Obama from naming a replacement.

The BBC's Ahmed Maher says the offensive is a "massive setback" for the government.

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