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.

What a huge setback will make a people suicide.

But a definite setback, you must admit that.

To exclude them would be a serious setback for decolonization.

The local economy suffered a setback in September 2004, when tropical storm Jeanne hit the island, prompting President Bush to declare Puerto Rico a disaster area.8 Serious concerns have also been raised lately over structural imbalances in public finances.

Not only it'll be a disappointment it'll be a real setback for everyone

Any pause in this sphere, especially a protracted one, may turn into a setback.

It would be a setback if the court were established without those powers.

This is a setback, but that's what we come out of town for.

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.

Multilateral efforts suffered a serious setback last April when the United Nations Commission on Human Rights voted against a resolution on Cuba by a margin of 19 to 16, with 18 abstentions. Maintaining international focus on the human rights situation in Cuba is a high priority for Secretary of State Albright.

The preparations for the trial received a setback when the examining magistrate resigned abruptly in August.

Everything he's suffered, I've suffered.

He's suffered a nervous breakdown.

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

It was a setback due to a failure in the guidance system and particularly in the inertial reference systems.

I suffered a lot as a mother.

I suffered a lot as a mother.

Yet following the serious setback suffered by the United Nations in Somalia, and the bitter experience endured in the former Yugoslavia, the international community has shown great reluctance in recent years to assume the political and financial exposure associated with deploying peacekeeping operations.

Lebanon has suffered a huge loss.

I have suffered quite a lot.

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

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

If such a plan is implemented, it would represent a significant setback to the efforts to resume the Israeli Syrian negotiations.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights considered this a serious setback in the battle against impunity.

Wednesday's sudden reversal is the latest legal setback for Pruitt's regulatory rollback agenda.

157. The usual high degree of cooperation between UNRWA and the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic suffered a temporary setback in November 1996 owing to a misunderstanding on the rate of exchange accorded to the Agency for the conversion of United States dollars to Syrian pounds, following the introduction of a more favourable rate in January 1996.

A total of 1,420 shops and warehouses suffered partial damage, 121 suffered major damage and 59 were completely destroyed.

On 16 May, multi party negotiations on police restructuring suffered a serious setback when key party leaders of the Republika Srpska failed to accept policing districts that would cross the Inter Entity Boundary Line (IEBL) and thus meet the requirement of European Union for policing areas drawn up on the basis of functionality.

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

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.

No man has ever suffered for woman as you suffered for me.

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

A medical certificate described injuries suffered from the beating.

It would therefore be an even greater setback if such progress were to be offset by a new conflict and fresh displacement.

Unfortunately, the United Nations suspensions in southern Afghanistan during April June 1998 and at Kabul during July August 1998 were a setback.

Yes, I've suffered.

But suffered disasters

In fact, a serious crop setback in any one of the major producers India, Kenya or Sri Lanka could lead to a large price hike.

In the health sector, the National Programme for Birth Control, which had been operational in a wide area around the country, had had a setback.

That was only a setback which in our view does not affect the commitment of the Group on its proposal on nuclear disarmament.

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.

The Maldives had suffered a bitter experience in that regard.