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setback English

Meaning setback meaning

What does setback mean?

setback

(= reverse) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating

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Simple sentences

This is a serious setback.
This is only a temporary setback.
It's only a small setback.
It's only a minor setback.
It would be a huge setback for them.

Movie subtitles

We've little to boast about, but the world hasn't come to an end just because we've run into a setback.
It's not only an affront to Spanish dignity it's a serious setback to me and my work.
This is a setback, but that's what we come out of town for.
It's just a little setback.
That's a little setback?
I had a little setback, but it's all right now.
One more setback and it's a record.
We'll get valuable data from them. but the accomplices' death. is a great setback for us.
It's bound to be a setback.
But a definite setback, you must admit that.
This is a great setback for our nation.
This is only a temporary setback.
This was a major setback.
We can only hope that this is a temporary setback.
Gentlemen, this is really a terrible setback.
Not because you had a little setback. That isn't important.
They're investigating. That's a little setback?
We had a little setback.
This may be the biggest setback for the British since Dunkirk.
If anything goes wrong, she could have a serious setback.
S-S-S-Surely i-i-i-i-it's. only a t-t-t-temporary. s-s-s-s-setback.
Except for this little setback, you've done an excellent job leading him along.
It's a big fucking setback to lose a member of my crew, so I paid off Patti to hook a patsy from Nick's crew.
This is an unfortunate setback.
This is only a temporary setback!
After some initial progress, we've lately suffered a setback.
Maybe, some romantic setback?
A minor setback, that's all.
We must try and turn this setback to our advantage.
Minor setback.
You appear to be fully recovered from your recent setback.
I mean, by reversing the South's defeat in the Civil War, he, in turn, will reverse his own emotional setback.

News and current affairs

And there have certainly been numerous such blows in recent months - from Europe's sovereign-debt crisis and Japan's natural disasters to sharply higher oil prices and another setback in the US housing recovery.
For the international human rights movement, this is a severe setback.
Despite nationalist parties' success in France, the same is true of the setback for President Jacques Chirac's centre-right party.
Despite the recent setback, banks' presence in foreign markets today is much greater overall than it was a few years ago.
They are likely to continue this policy, as the alternative would be a sudden setback to the competitiveness of their export sectors in the all-important US market.
But a mere two days after its creation, the embryonic Council suffered its first big setback.
Despite this disappointing setback, prospects for higher-level democratization within China will continue.
Any time you build something, there is always a chance of a setback.
Such a decision would be a serious setback to the movement to end impunity for the most serious crimes.
But to treat this setback as a failure would be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, projections based on GDP growth alone are one-dimensional and ignore US military and soft-power advantages.
Yet America's European allies administered Obama's first setback.
If the Hamas-Fatah split brings about another territorial partition, Palestinians' national aspirations will suffer their gravest setback in the last half-century.
Accepting a Cuban exception would represent an enormous setback.
So, while Chin's decision is a temporary setback on the way to a universal library, it provides an opportunity to reconsider how the dream can best be realized.
The loss of soft power implied by rejection of further enlargement would be a setback for Europe, the Balkans, and international stability.
But, with every setback, we learn.
Unfortunately, the past ten years have witnessed a painful setback in many areas.
That would be a severe setback for the EU; for the British, blundering through history, it would be a veritable disaster.

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