Sentence examples for set back progress from inspiring English sources

One doctor claims that socialized medicine has set back progress of their profession 100 years.

We have first-hand experience of the maxim that conflict is "development in reverse", and know that a return to conflict can set back progress by decades.

Chandradasa claimed Swire's comments had set back progress that had been made during the summit between civic leaders and Sri Lanka's government.

And so he knows, too, about Benedicto's being killed by the despot Idi Amin, a death foretold by some, dreaded by many and seen by experts as a development that set back progress in East Africa for years.

It was an age of Christian pre-eminence, an age of suppression of thought so dark and deep and long that it inhibited and set back progress in science for 1,500 years.

I said the audience that pays attention to this kind of thing is finite, but interested, and that people are concerned that it will set back progress toward professionalism and internationalization in the Chinese media.

"The MDBA considers this would be a reckless act – setting back progress towards a healthy and sustainable Basin, and causing substantial uncertainty for Basin communities," Glyde said.

The statement blamed militants for the start of the five-day conflict, saying they were intent on destabilizing the entire region, and more specifically were setting back progress toward democracy in Lebanon.

It rips apart families and societies, shatters stability and sets back progress.

UNICEF is increasingly concerned that disasters are disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable, eroding hard-won development gains and setting back progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.

Opposition MPs led calls for a full public inquiry into the death of Baby P. That was immediately rejected by Mr Balls, after Lord Laming, who chaired the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié, recommended that such an inquiry would "set back the progress that has been made in many places" and "could undermine important developments gained and progress made during the past six years".