Sentence examples for was a severe setback from inspiring English sources
Meanwhile, Kosovo's protectors would rejoice if Albanians and Serbs merely stopped killing each other; a wave of anti-Serb violence in March was a severe setback.
His killing, less than a year after he took office, was a severe setback for the Kremlin's ambition of containing the war in Chechnya and convincing the world that stability in the Caucasus was at hand.
"Whether Saad Hariri and his allies admit it or not, it was a severe setback to everything that happened starting in 2005," said Michael Young, a Lebanese columnist who has long been critical of Syria's role here.
But the result was a severe setback nonetheless.The election of a president—a job with little political weight but, in the right hands, perhaps the power to instruct and hearten the citizenry is an unusual reason for a crisis.
Ḥussein reluctantly entered the Six-Day War of June 1967 (see Arab-Israeli wars), but Israel's military victory was a severe setback, resulting as it did in the loss to Israel of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Jordan had annexed in 1950, and the influx of some 250,000 additional Palestinian refugees into the country.
The fall of Ouadi Doum was a severe setback for Libya.
This would be a severe setback for Internet users.
Their disappearance is a severe setback to Hassan Khan, a prisoner serving life for a 2007 robbery in West Wickham.
On the whole, I believe that the consequences of the crackdown have been a severe setback to the government.
This was followed almost immediately be a severe setback to the plan for gathering up all the universities under the domination of the Lateran.
The government has a majority of 63 and the result is a severe setback for Brown because it suggests that Labour discipline is breaking down.
