Sentence examples for serious reverse from inspiring English sources

To end up in such diplomatic isolation is a serious reverse.

So when delegates came to choose their emergency motion to debate at Saturday lunchtime, the kill-the-bill tendency suffered a serious reverse.

The fall of Tikrit would be a serious reverse for the Islamic State, though it is easy to exaggerate its impact.

A serious reverse could allow Mr. Trimble's critics within his party Jeffrey Donaldson, Martin Smyth and Willie Ross to mobilise against him.Despite this danger, the best bet is that Mr Trimble will be able to hang on.

The World Champion Veselin Topalov's fifty per cent at last month's Amber tournament in Monaco surely counts as quite a serious reverse, even though he did score 6.5/11 at straight Rapidplay and 4.5/11 at the more specialised Blindfold rapidplay.

Eichelberger's fears were realized when the overconfident 32nd Infantry Division suffered a serious reverse in the Battle of Buna-Gona.

In 2000, after it was discovered that a program designed for minority applicants had significantly benefitted white relatives of current firefighters, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said that if the program had excluded them "you would have had a very serious reverse-discrimination case".

His grandnephew, Daulat Rao, however, suffered serious reverses.

His relations with the Avars and Persians were marked by similar, though less serious, reverses.

The only serious reverses suffered by Isis since its successful campaigns in the summer of 2014 have been at the hands of the Kurds in Iraq and Syria.

The war was not going well, his party had suffered serious reverses in the fall of 1862, and he must already have been wondering if "history" would remember him as a one-term disaster who presided over the break-up of the Union.