Sentence examples for set back plans from inspiring English sources

The Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill set back plans for offshore drilling by several years.

But the death of Ms. Feldinger's grandmother set back plans for a first date.

One senior administration official, calling reporters from Baghdad, said that both the abuse of prisoners and the escalating violence had not set back plans to form a transitional government that would take power on June 30.

This year, it absorbed Air Inter, the formerly separate Government-owned domestic carrier, and though a pilots' strike this spring set back plans to offer shares in the airline to private investors, the French Government says it will go ahead next year.

All that new Saudi oil is hitting the market amid a steady recovery in oil production from the Gulf of Mexico, where Hurricane Katrina demolished rigs and set back plans by months and in some cases years.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have withdrawn their support for an Army Corps of Engineers' plan to dredge entry channels into the harbors, setting back planning for a massive expansion of the ports and raising doubts about the corps' future participation in the overall 35-year project.

The recession also significantly set back city plans to populate north San Jose -- home to more than 1,200 technology companies -- with permanent residents in as many as 32,000 new apartments and houses by 2030.

Last week, the European Commission emphasized that the attack would not set back its plans to include international airlines in the system beginning in 2012, and it vowed to impose "high-security standards in its legislation to prepare for the inclusion of the aviation sector" in the system.

Even if a strike set back Iran's plans, we would not know by how much.

"But all this progress would be set back by Tory plans to cut spending on schools".

The average survey participants said they had experienced four such events, which set back their savings plans by $117,000 on average.