Sentence examples for off the setback from inspiring English sources

But Leeds shrugged off the setback and poured forward, the home side's midfield unable to stem the tide.

Shrugging off the setback, Mr. Tittel said, "It was a bad day for wetlands, but the fight goes on".

But he brushed off the setback in characteristic style – "Hell, I've drilled dry wells before" – and in 1986 he gained revenge after the economy was struck by the mid-1980s oil bust.

But far from shrugging off the setback, the party's leader, Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister, promised some "soul-searching", acknowledging that many Singaporeans wanted the party to adopt "a different style and approach".

The fracking industry brushed off the setbacks.

AFTER a missile failed to hit a mock warhead high over the Pacific Ocean two weeks ago, the Clinton administration rushed to slough off this setback to its plans to protect the country against missile attacks.

Some oil and gas experts shrug off the setbacks on the grounds that knowledge of undersea geology is still patchy, especially in unfamiliar areas like the northwest Atlantic.

Tapper shrugged off that setback, determined to make the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow when trials took place in February.

Instead, the Padres had been the model of consistency, winning 60 percent of their series before their loss to the Diamondbacks that kicked off the 10-game setback.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — Coming off a setback at the hands of the cable television industry, the head of the Federal Communications Commission moved to reassert himself on Wednesday by proposing that the commission quickly adopt a rule that would prevent Comcast, the nation's biggest cable company, from becoming larger, commission officials said.

Germany had to regroup after losing key midfielder Sami Khedira to injury in the warm-up - and his replacement Christoph Kramer to a blow to the head before half-time - but they shrugged off these setbacks to write another triumphant chapter in their sporting history.