Sentence examples for setback occurred from inspiring English sources

The setback occurred early enough to permit further adjustment.

An almost fatal setback occurred while they were still adjusting to their new landscape.

This month, another setback occurred: The city announced that it was ending its contract with the developer.

But a major setback occurred in 1994 in the shape of the Kenneth Branagh movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

It became the Great Depression because once a setback occurred, a financial system based on gold was so shaky that normal recovery was difficult and, perhaps, impossible.

The most significant setback occurred on Wednesday, when a federal judge in New York refused to dismiss a batch of lawsuits brought against German companies by Holocaust victims.

While that means the business will underperform its peers during the mania years, it will also survive when the inevitable setback occurs.

When setbacks occurred, we drew on our savings, confident that we still had Social Security.

In the 1990's, by contrast, one of the worst setbacks occurred: the Clinton administration's and the United Nations' failure to stop the genocide in Rwanda.

During his coregency Belshazzar administered the government, his own estates, and those of his father, though, according to the Book of Daniel, famine and economic setbacks occurred late in his rule.

Setbacks occurred — twice the wheat crop failed, and one winter he lost several hundred head of sheep in a blizzard — but after a decade Mr. Clutter's domain consisted of over eight hundred acres owned outright and three thousand more worked on a rental basis — and that, as his colleagues admitted, was "a pretty good spread".