Sentence examples for tactical setback from inspiring English sources
Ergo, that fighting must end.This is a tactical setback for Mr Sharon.
The failure of the Olmert-Abbas talks back in September 2008 was far more than a tactical setback.
The idea that IS was in retreat has thus taken a severe jolt.In this section Neither a sprint nor a marathon Problems at the pump Dark days ahead The fortunes of war A country apart Cross channels Reprints Related topics Politics Political policy Military and defence policy Syria John McCainBarack Obama describes the loss of Ramadi as a mere "tactical setback".
The party views the collapse of the Soviet empire as merely a tactical setback for the communist and revolutionary forces.Yet CPI(M), as the party is known, is a crucial ally of India's reform-inclined but complicated coalition government, led by the Congress party and its avuncular prime minister, Manmohan Singh.
"There's no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time," he told The Atlantic magazine in an interview published on Thursday.
This was not just a tactical setback -- it was also a propaganda loss.
Despite numerous tactical setbacks, surrender is far from their collective mind-set.
The Arab-backed force has dealt tactical setbacks to Assad's troops in northwestern Syria in recent weeks, putting pressure on his government.
By 26 May, more than a week after Ramadi fell, a Central Command press release boasting of a robust coalition commitment to defeating Isis referred vaguely to "recent tactical-level setbacks".
Release of the latest report came against a backdrop of what appeared to be part of a new public relations effort by President Assad to present himself as an empathetic leader who believes his enemies are losing the war, in interviews that seemed to ignore a string of tactical and logistical setbacks suffered by his side.
Meanwhile, Sheffield United continue to go about their business in a mourning, machine-like manner, channelling all of the hurt from last season's double promotion setback into a merciless tactical stranglehold on any team who cares to show a sense of creative ambition.
