Word: setbacks
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...Despite the setback of losing a major sanctuary at Fallujah, the insurgents? numerical strength and capabilities appear to have grown considerably faster than have the U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces with the requisite competence and commitment to fight them. While U.S. officials originally envisaged the insurgents as numbering no more than 5,000 and saw them as comprising former regime loyalists and foreign terrorists - that estimate was later doubled, then trebled - the intelligence chief of the Allawi government, General Muhammad Abdullah Shahwani, on Monday claimed that the number of insurgents was more like 200,000 - in other words, greater than...
...long-standing ban on arms exports to allow sales to the U.S. of components related to the development of a joint missile-defense system. A day earlier, the Cabinet extended by a year Japan's humanitarian military mission in Iraq. Government Gridlock TAIWAN President Chen Shui-bian suffered a setback as his independence-backing Democratic Progressive Party and its ally, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, failed to take control of the legislature. The Kuomintang-led opposition, which favors eventual reunification with China, retained a slim majority, winning 114 seats in the 225-member parliament. Chen was elected President in March...
...stubbornness and inability to admit mistakes. He not only looked cranky but he sounded it, shearing off his answers, forgetting the more expansive and compelling explanations he routinely gave on the stump. As the squalls continued, Hughes stood huddled in the corner with communications director Bartlett to discuss the setback in the making. Chief strategist Matthew Dowd held both hands to his mouth as if in prayer. "We were watching our lead disappear," says a Bush official...
Santiago was a good contact to make. A few years earlier, she had been handed a similar setback and later rose above...
...Tibetan issue is the issue of a nation. So when one individual passes away, that is a certain setback. But since it's an issue of a nation, so long as the nation remains, the issue will remain...