Sentence examples for setback to progress from inspiring English sources
The extension is seen as a setback to progress in African governance by the international community.
Perhaps the biggest setback to progress was the cholera epidemic – a plague that has itself been blamed on foreign intervention.
If drug-resistance spreads to Bangladesh and India, the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance say it would be "a major regional and global setback to progress in malaria control efforts over the last decade".
Peter Garsden, a solicitor who represents 16 alleged victims of Greville Janner, said he feared the latest setback to the progress of the inquiry could harm the recovery of some victims, many of whom had lost faith in the process completely.
The August 19 bombings -- targeting the MFA, and by extension Iraq's improving relations with its neighbors -- represent a serious setback to that progress and have alarmed senior Iraqi officials that Iraqi Sunni Arab neighbors in particular now view those earlier gains as "reversible".
Many fear that such losses could cause a major setback to any progress made so far.
That will be a real setback to the progress we made since Margaret Thatcher's liberalisation of the economy in the 1980s.
Chances are they have been waiting patiently since you re-scheduled and if you miss the moment, or forget (or seem to have forgotten), it will be a significant setback to your progress, and a reminder of less affectionate days gone by.
In his Cronica, Villani writes that the Guelph defeat by the Ghibellines at Montaperti in 1260 was a major setback to the historical progress of the Republic of Florence.
Heymann stressed the re-infection of the Sudan is the latest setback to the strong progress Africa had achieved in eradicating polio.
A series of setbacks – failing the exam to progress on to his F3 year, blaming a surgical error on Penny, and the death of a patient in his care – prompted him to admit that he swapped his own exam paper with Penny's in his final year of medical school.
