Sentence examples for setbacks threatened from inspiring English sources

Both projects have already experienced delays, and further setbacks threatened to disrupt the future flow of weather and climate data to researchers.

THE building that Scholastic proposed extended to the property line, with no setbacks, threatening to cast an entire bank of lofts into gloom.

In a city where first impressions can quickly harden into lasting judgments, the setbacks threaten to sully what has been billed as a legacy-making transportation policy of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — leaving even the scheme's most vocal proponents alarmed by how the program's software seems ill prepared to handle public demand.

But the police said that when a financial setback threatened the nuptials, the couple so worried about disappointing their relatives that they devised a money-making plan not found in any bridal planner: bank robbery.

"How can you have tax policy for two months?" The surprising setback threatened the holiday plans of lawmakers and President Obama, deeply embarrassed Republican leaders in both chambers and raised the specter of a year-end tax increase that economists have warned could set back the already fragile economic recovery.

There is this moment in the experience of every entrepreneur where some devastating setback threatens to derail all progress forward.

The recent setbacks also threaten to undermine the credibility of Mrs. Whitman, a politician whose plain-spoken manner and seemingly moderate political views had made her one of the nation's most prominent governors and at one point a potential vice presidential candidate.

They would be setbacks that threaten public health and safety, unnecessarily.

But this year there have been setbacks which have threatened to put the brakes under his unprecedented era of dominance.

But in a place where sea-ice runways crack apart, even the simplest setback can threaten ambitious research and, potentially, the researchers themselves.

The most recent polling indicates Clinton is threatened there with a setback similar to the one she experienced early this month in another Midwestern state, Michigan.