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Arsenal's manager expressed concern that Sánchez would be pressed into action and suffer a serious setback and will watch anxiously how his key forward copes against Uruguay.

If Lester is dismissed, coastal protection will suffer a serious setback, said Les Strnad, a 25-year veteran of the agency and a former deputy director for the central California district.

UNICEF is concerned that great strides made over the last 25 years in increasing primary school enrolment in Nepal – from 64 per cent in 1990 to more than 95 per cent today – could suffer a serious setback in the aftermath of the earthquake.

But the effort to strengthen ethnic-Pushtun opposition to the Taliban suffered a serious setback on October 26th.

The school voucher movement suffered a serious setback with the overwhelming defeat of voucher initiatives in California and Michigan.

In India the company suffered a serious setback when it resolved, under the inspiration of Sir Josiah Child, to resort to armed trade and to attack the Mughals.

The consensus among experts was that Iran's problems were far from minor; some speculated that the country's nuclear program may have suffered a serious setback.

In January, the government suffered a serious setback when councils in Cumbria rejected a proposal to host a deep geological disposal site.

The Pentagon suffered a serious setback in January when a missile fired from the Marshall Islands failed to hit a mock warhead fired from a California air base.

One of the doctors who implanted the first completely self-contained artificial heart six weeks ago said yesterday that the recipient suffered a serious setback last week.

These arguments suffered a serious setback last month when a federal judge in Manhattan threw out a lawsuit that tried to use them against Merrill Lynch.