But, with every setback, we learn.

Was the global financial crisis a harsh but transitory setback to advanced country growth, or did it expose a deeper long term malaise?

Yet America s European allies administered Obama s first setback.

Could the Cypriot setback catalyze a fresh start?

Accepting a Cuban exception would represent an enormous setback.

14. The CSCE negotiating process will continue despite this undoubted setback.

This may be the biggest setback for the British since Dunkirk.

The events of 11 September 2001 represented a setback for human rights.

After each setback it committed itself to solemn agreements, multilaterally or bilaterally.

The economic and financial crisis Africa continues to experience since the beginning of the 1980s has led to a setback in growth in nearly all of the countries of the continent.

Any time you build something, there is always a chance of a setback.

Unfortunately, the past ten years have witnessed a painful setback in many areas.

This setback forced MINUGUA and others to re examine strategies for promoting accords implementation.

Unfortunately, this new but overdue initiative suffered a temporary setback in the General Committee.

The marriage suffered a setback in 1965, when the husband was killed by the wife.

But a mere two days after its creation, the embryonic Council suffered its first big setback.

Yet it also constitutes a major setback and challenge of an institutional, political, and even psychological nature.

24. In Western Asia, the Persian Gulf crisis was a setback at the beginning of the decade.

The decisions taken by the Government in Belgrade is a further setback in its relations with the CSCE.

This setback is a cause for concern it means a prolongation of the long armed confrontation in Guatemala.

Such a decision would be a serious setback to the movement to end impunity for the most serious crimes.

Many government behave as if the economic setback is temporary and happy pre crisis days will return fairly soon.

Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, many current projections are based simply on GDP growth.

The very rise of that specter over the past two years has been a setback for Africa s democratic development.

The Kosovo Albanians who want to enter that status process have understood that violence will be a major setback.

Despite the unprecedented setback caused by the tsunami, we are resolute in our quest of the Millennium Development Goals.

The coup d apos état of September 1991 had certainly been a setback for the emerging Haitian democratic system.

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95. In contrast, the peace process suffered a dramatic setback in Angola, where some 95,000 persons have already returned spontaneously.

Despite the recent setback, banks presence in foreign markets today is much greater overall than it was a few years ago.

That would be a severe setback for the EU for the British, blundering through history, it would be a veritable disaster.

That a pan Islamic discourse has now replaced the cause of pan Arabism is a major setback for moderate Arab regimes.

Any such case would be a serious setback for the Treaty and a huge threat to the entire global security system.

Unfortunately, the hopes for non proliferation in South Asia received a serious setback when India exploded a nuclear bomb in 1974.

We are all fully aware that this disaster will be a serious setback for the development efforts of the Egyptian Government.

The loss of soft power implied by rejection of further enlargement would be a setback for Europe, the Balkans, and international stability.

South Africa views this unilateral conclusion as a major setback and a stumbling block in commencing negotiations on a fissile material treaty.

The investigation thus suffered a setback as further information on this and other related cases could not be received from Mr. Nahvi.

If the Hamas Fatah split brings about another territorial partition, Palestinians national aspirations will suffer their gravest setback in the last half century.

The regime s propaganda machine is already portraying the Istanbul talks as a triumph for the Islamic Republic and a setback for the West.

In January, the Islamist dominated parliament adopted a decree lowering the age of marriage for girls from 18 to 16, a major setback.

Concerns about development, trade, the environment and other issues of fundamental interest to most Members of the Organization have suffered an unforgivable setback.

Similarly, the failure of the Disarmament Commission to agree on an agenda for its substantive session is another setback to multilateral disarmament initiatives.

The situation in Afghanistan, particularly in Kabul, resulted in a major setback to the ongoing FAO programmes and slowed down future programme development.

We've little enough to boast about, sir, but the world hasn't come to an end just because we've run into a little setback.