Sentence examples for set the cause from inspiring English sources

Had Hopkins won, it would have set the cause of women in business back years.

The California electricity crisis and Enron's subsequent collapse set the cause of electricity deregulation back a decade or more, Mr. Hogan said.

They buy a bike and they buy a bell, and they make me despair because everywhere they go they set the cause of cycling back.

(This is supposed to be the party of election reform, but its convention has set the cause of federal financing back a decade).

Immigrant advocates had spent years carefully laying the groundwork for a driver's-license campaign, but Mr. Spitzer's ineptitude set the cause way back.

These women make the Stepford wives look like the Baader-Meinhof gang and, helped by the ever photogenic and silent Duchess of Cambridge, last week making her debut on Vanity Fair's best-dressed list, they have set the cause of feminism in public life back a generation.

Other contemporary poets have accused him of "setting the cause back 30 years".

You might even set back the cause of corporate accountability.

Its abolition set back the cause of strategic planning and transportation in the county 25 years.

But it is more likely to set back the cause of gun control.

Punishing a school for such a decline could set back the cause of improvement.