Sentence examples for set back significantly from inspiring English sources

"As a result, you would set back significantly the social progress to which you have devoted your entire, astonishing career".

Congressional officials said the budget talks were set back significantly in a meeting Tuesday when the participants feuded over what legislation should serve as the benchmark for the talks — the House-passed spending measure with $61 billion in cuts for this year or an interim budget bill approved by Congress in early March that maintained financing for most programs at their current levels.

Human rights activists said this could significantly set back the campaign to indict Kim for crimes against humanity.

It will significantly set back research into very serious diseases including Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis and is likely to cost European research its competitive advantage," said Walport.

"You can argue whether you think it's subtle or not," he said, "but it certainly allows for less commercial signage because it's set back from the window significantly".

If that is the case, many officials say, it will significantly set back efforts to expand and modernize the military's use of the Web just as those efforts are gaining momentum.

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.

The chief executive of Citigroup, Vikram S. Pandit, sent employees a memorandum Friday saying, "The work we have all done to try to stabilize the financial system and to get this economy moving again would be significantly set back if we lose our talented people because Congress imposes a special tax on financial services employees.

The Liberal Democrat deputy leader, Simon Hughes, said the findings were "very significant" and added: "Unless all parties and candidates engage with and seek to win BME [black and minority ethnic] support, they could be in political difficulty locally and see their general election prospects significantly set back".

Here again is Pandit denouncing the proposed 90% tax in the same memo: "The work we have all done to try to stabilize the financial system and to get this economy moving again would be significantly set back if we lose our talented people".

One of the males patients felt that his life had been delayed because he could no longer work ("Yes, I have been significantly set back because I can neither walk nor work (age 63)") while another reported feeling sad ("When this disease began to enter my body, I felt sad because I could not work (age 66).") Three of the five men reported that arthritis disrupted relationships with women.