Word: setbacks
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Last May the plan was overwhelmingly rejected when voters handed the ruling coalition a stunning setback in national elections. Harmel, a law professor and one of the rare Walloons who speak Dutch, is an expert on the problem, therefore seemed a likely choice to revive the battered coalition. He still hopes to win support for language reform. The issue is far from settled. Shortly before the new Premier took office, 80 Flemings stalked out of a church in the Flemish seaside resort of Ostend when the priest began the Mass in French for vacationing Walloons...
...broken. It's absurd to continue." And with that, he scurried back to report his defeat to an angry De Gaulle. The Elysee Palace issued an ominous ultimatum: France henceforth would boycott all Common Market meetings while its government makes "the studies necessary to draw conclusions from the setback." This was a clear threat to withdraw from the Common Market...
...first setback for Nasser came in Bahrein, a tiny cluster of Persian Gulf islands where Sheik Isa bin Sulman al Khalifa unconditionally reaffirmed all existing agreements under which Whitehall uses his prosperous kingdom as a military and diplomatic pied-a-terre. Seemingly, Nasser-style socialism should have little appeal for Bahreinis, who boast the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, ten free, modern hospitals, electricity in 95% of their homes. For all his benevolence, however, the plump, diminutive Sheik is an unabashed autocrat who prefers to rule his 182,000 subjects exactly as his ancestors have since 1783, when...
...slim is Prime Minister Harold Wilson's margin in the House of Commons that the slightest setback to his Labor Party's fortunes sends psephologists excitedly to their charts and Tory planners jubilantly to their megaphones. So it was when voters in hundreds of towns and cities went to the polls to choose new borough councilors. The results sent thrills up the spines of every Conservative, for Labor lost 419 seats, the Liberals were ousted from 213, while the Tories gained...
Murder at the Silver Moon. But the fact was that Tuesday's events had so far added up to a distinct setback for Martin Luther King and the civil rights strategy that he espouses. And once again, it took white racists in their blind ferocity to come to the rescue...