Sentence examples for setback state from inspiring English sources

In a bigger setback, state parks administrators acknowledged that employees kept a budget surplus of nearly $54 million hidden even as the park system faced cutbacks and dozens of closings.

That decision dealt a major setback to state leaders, including Gov. Rick Scott, who have pledged to identify ineligible voters before state primary elections in August.

This is the Social Democrats' sixth successive setback in state or local elections in six weeks.

Eyes now turn to trickier ballots in France and the Netherlands.See articleThe German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suffered a setback in state elections in Schleswig-Holstein.

However, this project was dealt a setback when state officials said that more stringent medical licensing requirements would compel the center to change the layout of the space.

Last year the law suffered its first substantial setback when state courts upheld the positions of Glastonbury, Newtown and Bridgewater against developers.

In a setback for state lawmakers seeking to impeach Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday that he would not provide them with information about his criminal investigation of the governor.

A major setback for state gun control advocates was this week's House vote repealing the one-gun-per-month law, which was passed in 1993 under Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, and has long been upheld as the state's signature gun control restriction.

Washington has had other problems as well: In an embarrassing setback, the state overestimated the subsidies for 8,000 of its first enrollees.

Mrs. Merkel hoped Mr. Boetticher would help the party reverse recent setbacks in state elections.

A string of setbacks in state elections seem to have encouraged it in this course.