Sentence examples for they were set back from inspiring English sources

They were set back late Tuesday night when Juan Gonzalez, the prize free-agent outfielder, decided to sign with the Texas Rangers.

The Broncos had just moved into field-goal range when they were set back 10 yards by a tripping call against offensive lineman Zane Beadles.

But as the Republicans moved ahead with the plan, which serves as an outline for the enactment of specific tax and spending bills and is not subject to a veto, they were set back in their efforts to pass a centerpiece of their tax-cutting package.

Government standards for judging the performance of headlights "are essentially unchanged" since they were set back in the 1960s, Zuby said.

Pereira's design for LACMA consisted of three separate and largely windowless buildings; faced in split-face marble tile, they were set back from Wilshire and lifted above a series of reflecting pools.

Ex-Service men felt that by no longer being the breadwinner in the household and a highly trained professional, they were set back to square one as said by Alan (combat-related visual impairment, age 25 34 years): " it's like all that experience, all that knowledge… shoved right back in your face You're a broken toy now.

The almost 300 freestanding homes are generally three stories tall, with wood shingles and wide porches, and they are set back from the sidewalk behind generous front lawns, many graced with 100-year-old oaks and London plane trees.

The houses are unusual in that they are set back 15 feet from the sidewalk, with unfenced paved front yards, creating a 200-foot-long common space with benches and planters for residents.

They are set back behind ornate wrought-iron fences, with 10-foot-deep front yards, and lamps that seemed styled to the era of the poet Clement Clarke Moore, who lived on an estate in the neighborhood in the 1800s.

The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.

They are set back and at a lower height in deference to the sanctuary.