setback

How To Use setback In A Sentence

• Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
• Hundreds of the aircraft are on order, but loss of the Northwest batch is a serious setback.
• Sally had been recovering well from her operation, but yesterday she experienced/suffered a setback.
• As it happens, the setback turned out to be the only hiccup in the 14 race series, and Andy made an astonishing recovery to claim 11 victories in his last 12 race meetings.
• The two losses are a serious setback for the team's playoff hopes.
• Everyone who is involved in the experiment takes it incredibly seriously; there are numerous setbacks and tempers fray. Times, Sunday Times
• The revival was halted when they were dealt another two-pronged setback.
• I don't have any open wound healing is slaughtered,nobody knows my heart setbacks.
• There have been other setbacks-like 160,247 hectares of farmland converted to industrial, residential or commercial uses.
• In any case, such setbacks have been rare in a career that has seen the Barr group's parent company, Barr Holdings Ltd, grow from eight employees to about 1,500.