Sentence examples for setback efforts from inspiring English sources

Campaigners fear that this could tip the balance in future policy debates and setback efforts to tackle climate change.

A setback for efforts to hold Wall Street accountable.

In Abidjan, a United Nations official called the outbreak "a huge setback" to efforts at reconciliation.

The unexpected finding is at least a cosmetic setback for efforts to clean up Hempstead Harbor.

This has been described as a major setback in efforts to tackle the disease.

More recently, the C.I.A. suffered a setback in efforts to question Iranian exiles and recruit nuclear scientists.

The World Bank reported Thursday that the global financial crisis of 1997-98 hadealtlt a setback to efforts to relieve poverty.

The lack of progress in London was the second recent setback for efforts to find a compromise with Iran.

Nevertheless, it is the latest setback to efforts to develop a medical treatment for obesity, which is considered one of the nation's costliest medical problems.

Instead, Israel's storming of a Turkish-flagged vessel in international waters was a huge setback to efforts to win new sanctions on Iran.

The discovery, announced by the country's nuclear regulator on Monday, is a further setback to efforts to contain the crisis.