Sentence examples for mechanical setbacks and from inspiring English sources

The desperate rescue operation reached the miners after assorted mechanical setbacks and a long, excruciating period of silence from below since Thursday when the noise of rescue operations rendered fruitless any attempt at hearing tapped signals from the men.

It's easy to say you're building a cheap, simple rocket, but that and $2 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks". Licensing requirements and unexpected mechanical setbacks can turn a rocket project into a money pit not unlike a home-remodeling undertaking, except for the scale, Kaplan said.

In Normandy, France, where that technology is underway, the companies are dealing with mechanical setbacks.

Backup generators are being installed on building setbacks and on the 15th floor, which has been set aside as a mechanical floor.

The agency was forced to cancel the planned launch of another lunar probe in 2004 after repeated mechanical and financial setbacks.

There were setbacks and disasters.

There were setbacks and triumphs.

They suffered setbacks and disappointments.

The trial has stumbled and lurched through setbacks and reversals.

There will always be setbacks and struggle.

She surely has had setbacks and embarrassments.