Sentence examples for security setbacks from inspiring English sources

KGB operations in Britain suffered less serious security setbacks post-war than in the US, thanks chiefly to the Magnificent Five.

When their early predictions proved illusory, military officials blamed unexpected security setbacks, like the February 2006 Samarra mosque bombing that set off a wave of sectarian violence, or the shortcomings of Iraq's ministries and its high command.

The dramatic initiative by the core leaders of the former Iraqi opposition to Mr. Hussein follows a month of increasing violence and security setbacks for American forces that have created a perception that the American security plan for postwar Iraq is failing.

One is an Op-Ed column written in 1972 by A. M. Rosenthal, then the managing editor, who asserted one year after the case that publication of the Pentagon Papers had served the public well and had led to no national security setbacks.

Although officials acknowl edged that Israel had suffered, a security setback, they said they hoped she would consider herself compensated to a de gree by the American commit ment to supply new supersonic Phantom jet fighter‐bombers and other military equipment.

"The security setback that has beset Iraq must be brought to a stop, and security and stability have to be regained all over Iraq, so that it can head down the path in the right way toward the future," he said, according to Reuters.

"The security setback that has beset Iraq must be brought to a stop, and security and stability have to be regained all over Iraq, so that it can head down the path in the right way toward the future," he said, Reuters reported.

He is undeterred by the continued attacks on American troops and Iraqi security forces, the setbacks in securing foreign commitments for more troops, and the sense of the long slog ahead that darkens Congressional debate and even appeared in a recent internal memo by his boss, Donald H. Rumsfeld.

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Another division, Giuliani Safety and Security, suffered a setback in 2004 with the unexpected departure of Bernard B. Kerik, who faced ethical and legal problems after his withdrawal from consideration to be President Bush's secretary of homeland security.

US officials confirmed Washington had evacuated its remaining personnel from Yemen, including about 100 special operations forces, because of deteriorating security, marking a further setback in US efforts against a powerful local al-Qaida branch.