Sentence examples for time setbacks from inspiring English sources

Be careful to avoid careless mistakes when gathering and submitting your application materials, as these can become major time setbacks.

I generally get to work early before the hustle and bustle of people milling around the building and my time setback wrestling with that damn maxipad had, fortunately, not set me back too much.

Other challenges, he says, have included his divorce years ago, which alienated many followers; a decline in attendance, due in part to competition from the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando; and other, curiously timed setbacks — a car accident, a sudden illness — that nearly prevented him from picking up his cross.

But the subprime hit should be a one-time setback for General Motors, and strong results are expected for the rest of 2007, Healy said.

Rebuilding the country will take a long time, and setbacks are inevitable, but we must not give up.

He accused Isis of carrying out the attacks to assert its continued presence in the capital at a time when setbacks on the battlefield elsewhere have left the group feeling vulnerable.

With many aging levees failing current inspections across the US, and flood losses spiraling up over time, levee setbacks are a viable solution for reducing flood exposure and flood levels.

The featured women spoke to Time about setbacks they faced and challenges they overcame to find success in fields historically dominated by men.

Ms. Larkin's friendly alto and intricate, Celtic-tinged guitar parts carry songs that are determined to stay levelheaded through good times and setbacks, heartache and political disillusionment.

Patty Larkin's warm alto and intricate, Celtic-tinged guitar parts carry songs that are determined to stay level-headed through good times and setbacks, heartache and political disillusionment.

At Japan's Fisheries Research Agency, Hideki Tanaka has made some of the most significant breakthroughs in understanding the life cycle of unagi, but not without time-consuming setbacks: Tanaka's team spent twelve years learning how to hatch artificially inseminated glass eels and keep them alive, only to find that all of the eels brought to maturity under laboratory conditions became males.