6 sentences with 'setback'
Example sentences and phrases with the word setback and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, despite the setback at Trafalgar, the years 1805 and 1806 saw impressive victories for Napoleon. »
• « Another setback was that Hitler's attempt to get the Spanish to join the war failed, when Spanish dictator Franco indicated that Spain was simply too poor and weak, especially after its civil war, to join the Axis, despite the obvious political affinity between fascist Spain and Nazi Germany (Hitler said he would rather have his teeth pulled than endure another encounter like the one he suffered with Franco). »
• « After several postponements, a trial date was set for January 1992. However, six months before it began, Bobbie and prosecutor Aragon suffered a serious setback when Judge Bernard Revak ruled that information about the woman's past was inadmissible as evidence. »
• « -Finally, Nina, what would you say to a girl who would like to be a model or a mannequin? -Above all, I would tell her to have a lot of willpower, to fight hard and not to get discouraged in the face of problems. I think that with character, you can overcome any setback. »
• « When the expedition entered Upper Peruvian territory, it suffered a minor setback at Cotagaita, but on 7 November 1810 it won an important victory at Suipacha, which resulted in the four governorates' intendancies joining the Junta de Gobierno de Buenos Aires and the expedition's advance to the Peruvian border near Lake Titicaca. »
• « British settlers hoping to move west after the war chafed at this restriction, believing that the war had been fought and won to secure the right to settle in the west. The Proclamation Line, therefore, was a setback to their vision of westward expansion. »