Sentence examples for what a setback from inspiring English sources

When I hear of World Food Programme sending food to Zimbabwe, it shows you what a setback has taken place.

It's hard to exaggerate what a setback this is for the Republican Party and for Donald Trump.

Or consider what a setback it would be if he suddenly had to withdraw from conducting this weekend's "Contact!" programs, the contemporary-music series that he inaugurated, or the May performances of Ligeti's "Grand Macabre," an ambitious new venture for the Philharmonic in presenting a semistaged production of a challenging contemporary opera that has yet to be produced at the Met.

But he can categorize in his head the difference between what's a setback, what's a bump along the way and what's just noise".

What a terrible setback delivered by gifted and pampered athletes to the hard work of their intellectually talented and spiritually decent relatives in the professions, in the universities, and in the work and armed forces of this country.

On the whole, the experts are agreed that there must be some setback, but there is not yet sufficient evidence to prove that it will be long or that it need go to the length of producing a general industrial depression.It remains to consider what effect a setback, whether great or small, in the United States will have upon other countries.

The great meeting in Bergen soon after however renewed the division of the Norwegian kingdom with Skule, who thereafter gained control of the northern third of the country instead of the east, in what marked a setback despite his military victory.

What seemed like a setback turned out to be a stroke of luck.

For what looked like a setback to Sky when it was forced out of the OnDigital consortium – making it hand out millions of subsidised digital boxes – in fact simply highlighted the abject failure of the ITV companies to make their pay TV operation work and ultimately left Sky the winner.

The ski-industry closings are a small but representative setback for what a new report calls the outdoor economy — that is, "the stream of economic output that results from the protection and sustainable use of America's lands and waters when they are preserved in a largely undeveloped state".

WHAT began as a setback for President Álvaro Uribe is starting to look like a partly self-inflicted rout.