Sentence examples for suffered a severe setback from inspiring English sources

On the left, Labour suffered a severe setback.

Not only that but Podemos, which had taken part in the election in coalition with other political forces, suffered a severe setback, losing about 1.1 million votes.

By mobilizing to win the narrow legal battle in South Africa, and not focusing on the broader context, the industry suffered a severe setback.

In March 2015, however, Vanuatu suffered a severe setback to its development when Cyclone Pam, a category 5 (highest intensity) tropical cyclone, struck the islands.

As the historian Rick Perlstein documents in his terrific new book "Nixonland," America's hard right turn really began in 1966, when the Democrats suffered a severe setback in Congress — and Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.

Europe's hopes of translating its economic power into global political clout have suffered a severe setback as a result of the timid choices on new leadership made this week, analysts, officials, and diplomats conceded on Friday.

The legitimate uses for P2P technology may thus suffer a severe setback.

The claim that Asia's economic success resulted from specific Asian virtues has suffered a severe blow since the monetary and economic setbacks that became apparent last fall.

The country was thrown into political turmoil in March when the ruling coalition suffered a severe electoral setback.

Russia, having suffered a severe diplomatic setback at the Congress of Berlin (see Berlin, Congress of, 1878), eventually abandoned the Three Emperors' League with Germany and Austria-Hungary and in 1892 entered into an alliance with republican France.

Roth once told an interviewer that when he was a child his father suffered a severe financial setback, and that the courage he showed in fighting his way back from that made him seem to his son a cross "between Captain Ahab and Willy Loman".