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

As in this cryptic sentence I found in The Guardian recently The marriage suffered a setback in 1965, when the husband was killed by the wife.

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

Public security suffered a significant setback on 19 February 2005 when a group of unidentified armed men entered the National Penitentiary in Port au Prince and enabled 493 detainees to escape.

The Old Swiss Confederacy had acquired a reputation of invincibility during these earlier wars, but expansion of the federation suffered a setback in 1515 with the Swiss defeat in the Battle of Marignano.

Could the Cypriot setback catalyze a fresh start?

Accepting a Cuban exception would represent an enormous setback.

But, with every setback, we learn.

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

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

Mr. Cumberbatch Miguén (Cuba) said that economic and social development had suffered an outright setback during the previous year and that the United Nations had failed to reaffirm the outcome of its latest summits and conferences.

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

Yet America s European allies administered Obama s first setback.

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

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

Jamal suffered quite a lot.

Sami suffered a huge depression.

Sami suffered a huge depression.

She had suffered a heart attack.

Layla suffered from a severe depression.

So they suffered a double loss.

Latin America suffered a lost decade.

Latin America suffered a lost decade.

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

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.

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.

But a mere two days after its creation, the embryonic Council suffered its first big setback. France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Portugal, in collaboration with the United States, presented a draft resolution before the United Nations Security Council seeking to condemn repression in Syria and put an end to the use of force against civilians.

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

Finally, there are those who would view a North Korean collapse as a boon to US strategic interests and a setback for Chinese interests.

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

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.

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

As a result, countless people suffered and died.

Theirs is a fate perennially suffered by intellectuals.

Investment suffered.

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

The Roma, and Europe, have suffered a great defeat.

On 9 June 1956, Argentina suffered a coup d'état.

Pakistan s new president, Asif Ali Zardari, has suffered from terrorism as we have suffered.

It suffered from increasing unemployment and a lack of investment.

The town suffered a major earthquake and tsunami in 1693.