Sentence examples for setback to the administration from inspiring English sources

The measure now before the Senate makes the minimum standards optional, dealing a significant setback to the administration, which had made legislation to safeguard computer systems a top national security priority this year.

The Democrats have blocked — for now — the Caring for Our Veterans Act, which would offer veterans more access to for-profit health care at taxpayer expense, a setback to the administration's legislative agenda and for one of the president's core constituencies.

A deficit-conscious Senate on Tuesday voted to slash by more than half the $725-billion tax cut that President Bush had proposed to spur the economy -- a surprise domestic-policy setback to the administration as it wages war abroad.

In a major setback to the Bush administration's biodefense efforts, the government announced Tuesday that it had canceled an order for 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine, the single biggest purchase planned for the nation's antiterror drug stockpile.

The decision to pull back a U.N. investigation into the massacre of refugees in the Congo - after the government there refused to cooperate with it - deals a setback to the Clinton administration's Africa policy and to U.N. efforts to put human rights at the center of the international agenda.

But Pentagon officials said that canceling or sharply cutting the satellite program would be a major setback to the Bush administration's missile defense plan.

The 2-to-1 ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, gave new life to a 2005 lawsuit and appeared to be a setback to the Bush administration.

The House voted today to temporarily bar the Interior Department from leasing the waters off the Florida Panhandle for oil and gas exploration, a setback to the Bush administration's energy strategy.

An election widely perceived as having been stolen could deal a serious setback to the Obama administration, which has committed itself to prevailing here in the nearly eight-year-old war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

A judge has ordered the city to temporarily halt the rezoning and development of a 31-acre site in Brooklyn called the Broadway Triangle, dealing a setback to the Bloomberg administration's ambitious plans for the area, which were approved by the City Council on Monday.

Congressional Democrats have blocked — for now — controversial legislation that would offer military veterans more access to for-profit health care at taxpayer expense, a noteworthy setback to the Trump administration's legislative agenda and for one of the president's core constituencies.