Noun : The new law was a setback. ,A nightly setback of your home thermostats can save a great deal of fuel.    From Dictionary.com. 

Which, given his present state, was a serious set-back.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of Expectations]

So, this clearly is a set-back for American conservatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2002] Reference

Any ol 'set-back did not make a journey, it was just a step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Shepherd: What's Eating You? 5 Food-Thought Patterns and Their Effect] Reference

Expensive set-back houses with vast expanses of front lawns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Leary: Campaign Journal: Almost Heaven, Wet Virginia] Reference

Yes, the Massachusetts vote was a devastating set-back to Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sasha Abramsky: Time to Take the Gloves Off] Reference

The lace manufacturers of Europe experienced a serious set-back in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

It will be a terrible set-back, but I will just have to start over.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

During this visit to Paris an unaccustomed set-back was experienced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

This was considered a set-back, even a failure, by some media analysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Hart: Democracy in the Mirror of Afghanistan] Reference

They walked past discreet set-back entrances to blocks of mansion flats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hard Way]

You know, a lot of people thought that Iowa was a serious set-back to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2008] Reference

You do not know whether this will end up having been a set-back to McLame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expert: McCain's Ads Won't Be All Down Until End Of Today] Reference

A set-back because the work had been begun with rough tools and lack of material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

Throughout the series, the Baudelaire children experience one set-back after another.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darker Harry Potter] Reference

There was yet another set-back, though, when Defoe pulled up and had to be substituted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tottenham back from brink against Young Boys to keep dream alive] Reference

Failing to pass Health Care reform would be a set-back to President Obama and the Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Obama a Back-Room Blue Dog on Health Care?] Reference

Here the conquering West Saxon met his most serious set-back and almost his only real defeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference

But she was to have a set-back in one town that must have held many memories of her girlhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

There is no question that early 2008 was at least a temporary set-back to many of those hopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene Sperling: Hopes for Democracy, Stability and Education Alive in Kenya] Reference

The real political catastrophe, however, was not this set-back but the ugly politics that ensued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Ostertag: Is a Sad History Repeating Itself?] Reference

He said efforts to solve these conflicts have suffered a set-back because of mistrust between some countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Just when you were making real progress towards your goal, something unexpected happens and causes a set-back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: New Year's Resolution? This Time, Stay on Track!] Reference

She is on Social Security and a short time ago she had a financial set-back and she was forced to go back to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Town Hall Meeting] Reference

But the ANC said it considered the court's decision as a set-back for the transformation of rugby in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And this is going to be a big test for Hillary Clinton, because she has not had a set-back like this in this campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2008] Reference

Last week Viacom suffered a set-back on a deal that would have helped pay down debt from its multimillion-dollar buying binge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips Off The Block] Reference

He told a Press conferenece in Pretoria this would be a "tremendous set-back" to what the country had achieved in the past year.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The crackdown, a major set-back for the president's efforts to, as his administration has put it, spread democracy around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2007] Reference

He shares my concern that their rejection would be a real set-back to the effort to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoover and Truman - Chapter 4: Reorganizing the Executive Branch] Reference

Sanfed members would meet on Tuesday night to discuss the court decision, which was considered only as a "set-back", Stolzenberg said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Navy in 1988 is exactly the kind of incident which could trigger a larger conflagration in the Gulf and set-back any regional diplomacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [An open letter to General Petraeus] Reference

The crushing of the democratic movement, led by students and intellectuals, in June 1989 in Beijing, may have been a temporary set-back.    From Wordnik.com.  [1991] Reference

But last night my friend had something of a set-back, which may possibly, by deflecting his conversation to other topics, give me relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917] Reference

Philippine immigration commissioner Andrea D'Amingo says although that was a set-back for al Qaeda, it's operatives continued recruiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2003] Reference

Failure of the operation must be excluded: a set-back would be intolerable in view of the complete success of the war up to the present. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Sea Lion]