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1986–87 Philadelphia Flyers season

Oddly enough, the second occurred during the game Keenan was suspended for, a 4–3 setback to the Devils at the Meadowlands January 24.

2007–09 university protests in France

Initially, however, the opposition suffered a severe setback when the social-democratic student's union UNEF expressed its approval of the proposed law, once the idea of a Numerus Clausus for the Master's course had been abandoned.

Antigonid Macedonian army

Having defeated the Romans, Andriscus invaded Thessaly in 148 BC, where he suffered a setback in battle against the Achaean League, commanded by Scipio Nasica.

Arlene Golonka

Despite that setback, she continued working in other plays such as Take Me Along with Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon and Robert Morse (448 performances from late 1959 to late 1960), Neil Simon's first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn, which ran 677 performances from February 1961 until October 1962, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring Kirk Douglas, from November 1963 until January 1964.

Avery Bradley

This injury, which led to season-ending surgery, was a significant setback to the Celtics, who lost in seven games to the Miami Heat in the Conference Finals.

Bank secrecy

Swiss bank secrecy was dealt a severe setback by the revelations made by ex-UBS banker Bradley Charles Birkenfeld, who blew the whistle on UBS providing Americans with vehicles to hide up US$20 billion in assets to avoid taxes.

Battle of Rathenow

As a consequence of this setback, the Swedes had to abandon their plan to cross the Elbe at Havelberg in the vicinity of Rathenow, in order to attack the key Brandenburg fortress of Magdeburg.

Carleton Watkins

His photographs were auctioned, following a business setback, resulting in his photographs being published without credit by I. W. Taber, the new owner.

Champaign County, Illinois

The northern part of the county experienced an economic and demographic setback with the closing of Chanute Air Training Center in the 1990s.

Etna Iron Works

Fortuitously for Roach, the proprietor, shipping magnate Charles Morgan, had recently experienced a setback in his own business dealings, as a result of which he was short of capital.

Garcetti v. Ceballos

Whistleblower lawyer Stephen M. Kohn called the ruling "the single biggest setback for whistleblowers in the courts in the past 25 years."

Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War

Apart from the odd setback, such as General Castaños' surprise victory at Bailén, in part due to guerrilla warfare between Madrid and Andalusia, and especially in the Sierra Morena, a victory which helped persuade the British government that Napoleon could be defeated, the French troops were largely undefeated on the open battlefield.

Hofkirche, Innsbruck

The church was designed by architect Andrea Crivelli of Trento in the traditional German form of a hall church, consisting of three naves with a setback three-sided choir, round and pointed arch windows, and a steep broken hip roof.

James Hopes

But Pune Warriors had suffered a setback to their IPL preparations with a knee injury ruling out the Hopes.

Japan National Route 289

But the scheme suffered a major setback after the Chūetsu earthquake in 2004 when landslips covered large parts of the route.

Jazz–Rockets rivalry

The major setback came on January 13, when Spencer suffered a torn left Achilles tendon, which took him out for the rest of the season and the entire postseason.

Joe McKelvey

In May 1921, McKelvey's command suffered a severe setback, when fifty of his best men were sent to County Cavan to train and link up with the IRA units there, only to be surrounded and captured by the British Army on Lappanduff hill on 9 May.

Kelvin Thomson

It also commented: "Thomson's relegation to the backbench will be a setback for Labor. Ever since December, when Rudd promoted him to shadow attorney-general, he has dealt the Government more grief over David Hicks than Labor did collectively over the previous five years. Of the big changes to Labor's frontbench under Rudd, Thomson was the standout surprise performer." Thomson has not since been returned to the Labor cabinet.

Kombinaciya

Another big setback to the group occurred on March 5, 1993, when manager/producer Alexander Shishinin was murdered, a still-unsolved crime that was rumored to be linked to Russian Mafia influence in the music industry.

Le Grand Kallé

In the mid-1960s, Kallé suffered his first major setback when two of his protegés (Tabu Ley Rochereau and Dr Nico Kasanda) left to form their own group called Africa Fiesta.

Maryland in the American Civil War

Lee's setback at the Battle of Antietam can also be seen as a turning point in that it may have dissuaded the governments of France and Great Britain from recognizing the Confederacy, doubting the South's ability to maintain and win the war.

Naksa

Naksa Day (Arabic for "day of the setback"), the anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War

Orbeta-Casenas Clan

During the Philippine's revolution, his plans for a bright future suffered a setback when his house was burned down by rampaging revolutionaries.

Origins of Rabbinic Judaism

The attractiveness of Christianity may, however, have suffered a setback with its being explicitly outlawed in the 80s CE by Domitian as a "Jewish superstition", while Judaism retained its privileges as long as members paid the Fiscus Judaicus.

Peter Weatherson

He overcame this setback and has recently remodelled himself as a defender, after manager Jim McInally used him as a utility centre-back in a 7–1 Tennent's Scottish Cup victory away to Cove Rangers.

Quebec Expedition

The failure was an early setback in Robert Harley's "blue water" policy, which called for the aggressive use of the navy to keep England's enemies at bay; however, Harley continued to implement it, withdrawing further resources from European military campaigns.

Ralph Thoresby

In 1683, he was prosecuted as a non-conformist; evidently this was not a great setback since in 1684 he "took his freedom" (joined) the Eastland and Hamburgh Companies, two of the five regulated companies for foreign commerce (the others being the Russian Company, the Turkey Company, and the African Company).

Rémy Julienne

His career suffered a setback in 1999, when a stunt went wrong during the filming of Taxi 2, written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès, causing the death of a cameraman Alain Dutartre and the serious injury of the cameraman's assistant.

Riccardo Scimeca

The start of the 2008–09 season looked to be more promising for Scimeca as he began the season fully fit and an injury to Gavin Rae saw him back into the first team early in the year, but he went on to suffer another injury setback after seriously damaging ankle ligaments during a 2–1 victory over Milton Keynes Dons in the second round of the Football League Cup.

Second Drees cabinet

A major setback was the North Sea flood of 1953, which resulted in damage equivalent to 5% of the GDP.

Singapore Democratic Party

At the time, the result was viewed as being a notable setback to the ruling party and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.

Soviet art

In 1962, artists experienced a slight setback when Nikita Khrushchev appeared at the exhibition of the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Artist's Union at the Manege exhibition hall.

Steven Ciobo

Ciobo said Peter Garrett's move to scrap the Uluru climb would be another setback to the tourism industry which had been hit hard by the global economic downturn.

Transalpine campaigns of the Old Swiss Confederacy

A first setback came with the Battle of Arbedo in 1422, where the Swiss were defeated by the Duchy of Milan, and in a treaty of 1426, the border of the duchy was moved back to the Gotthard Pass.

United Kingdom local elections, 1977

The results were a major mid-term setback for the Labour government, and the Conservatives, the main opposition, comprehensively regained control of the Greater London Council with 64 seats against Labour's 28.

Vaccine injury

In 2003, parents of over 1,000 United Kingdom children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, alleging the MMR vaccine was the culprit, were dealt a major setback by decision by the Legal Services Commission to withdraw legal aid.

Verneuil process

Its most significant setback came in 1917, when Jan Czochralski introduced the Czochralski process, which has found numerous applications in the semiconductor industry, where a much higher quality of crystals is required than the Verneuil process can produce.

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Hurricane Ivan delivered a small setback to the operation when it hit the Island on September 11, 2004.

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Hurricane Ivan delivered a small setback to the operation when it hit the Island on 11 September 2004.


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