Sentence examples for setback if from inspiring English sources

This was a setback, if not quite a catastrophe.

But it might have been less of a setback if even one Justice had dissented.

You don't always come back from the setback if those kinds of things don't work out.

"It will be a huge injustice and setback if we allow the same thing to happen to LEDs," he said.

"I believe this is a setback if we treat it properly, and just that, a setback," Mr. Kerry said.

"The doubt is that he has been out for a long time and the risk of a setback if you try to go too early.

It can last a lifetime, and is full of setbacks, if it succeeds at all.

But some have warned that the industry could face other setbacks if the shutdown continues.

Instead, he said he tries to buy early and to hang on, tolerating setbacks if a company's competitive advantage endures.

"It might have been the case that expectations simply got ahead of themselves, and we may be in for more setbacks if the surveys don't improve as quickly as we were expecting or hoping for," said George Buckley of Deutsche Bank.

And McClaren says his players need to start reacting better to setbacks if they are to turn their season around.