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Sentence count:30Posted:2018-05-14Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: setbackset backget backget back atoutbacksit backput backcutbackMeaning: n. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly set back. v. 1. hold back to a later time 2. slow down the progress of; hinder 3. cost a certain amount. 
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1. The defeat constitutes a major set-back for our diplomacy.
2. Defeat in the by-election is a major set-back to the ruling party.
3. New rules mean a set-back for army of casual workers.
4. On Thursday Major Vanavskaya suffered her first serious set-back, let out a very unladylike expletive and slammed the phone down.
5. Undaunted by this set-back, Nicholson successfully negotiated the rights to the Medlock patent for the considerable sum of £2000.
6. The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat, and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency.
7. Sunderland reacted quickly to the set-back, with club record singing Don Goodman calmly picking his spot to equalise a minute later.
8. He blames Brazilian bureaucracy for this set-back.
9. It's the 10)knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a 11)set-back as a challenge.
10. The combination of office tower and set-back floors on levels 7 and 8 enables the unproblematic creation of office spaces ranging from 100 to 4,000 sqm.
11. Japan's space ambitions have had a set-back after the failure of an engine in a test run.
12. But at intervals an obstruction, a set-back, a log- jam occurs, stops the current, creates an eddy, and makes things temporarily move the other way.
13. However, Hill told reporters he believes the set-back would be resolved before the next American president took office in January.
14. The conservation programme was suffered a set-back last year when the Wolong Reserve was devastated in the Sichuan earthquake.
15. If there is no set-back, he should be back before the end of the season but it is very difficult to predict.
16. Hopes of an early end to the strike received/suffered a severe set-back yesterday.
17. Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back. Steve Maraboli 
18. Indeed Sears points to £6.3m worth of special factors, such as the rail strike,(sentencedict.com/set-back.html) accounting for almost half the profits set-back.
19. After the war Birkenhead made biography his main occupation despite a major set-back.
20. The result showed that the anxious emotion and interpersonal relation of the client has improved obviously, and his resilience to set-back has enhanced, psychological counseling outcome is good.
21. Is't the knake of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a set-back as a challenge.
22. It looked as though his time in the treatment room was over until this latest set-back, which followed praise from England boss Fabio Capello for his performance against Arsenal.
23. It's the knack for finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a set-back as a challenge.
24. Last week, Larry Page's dream of "organizing all the world's information" hit a set-back.
25. During this trip to Europe, President Bush also suffered a set-back to his top legislative priority of the year: comprehensive immigration reform.
26. When you put on a performance like that and show that kind of morale, it's certainly not a set-back.
27. Although senior corporate figures have stated that WA's mining boom was enduring a "temporary set-back", some academics believe that, for now, the good times are over.
28. The campaign began in disappointing fashion with a 3-2 home defeat by Watford but that early set-back proved the precursor to promotion.
29. Now, in an earlier era, we might have experienced a lasting set-back.
30. Money, whether it's from the Bank or other donors, is expected to flow quite smoothly to the 34,000 or so houses outside the buffer zone set-back from the sea.
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