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And they insist that this looming defeat is only a temporary setback.
In France, Le Figaro and Libération played the story as a major setback for socialism in Germany, as did the newspapers in Italy.
The LAT front-page McDougal piece says his death could be a "setback."
The NYT says that Gore outpolled Bill Bradley 63 percent to 35 percent, adding that this result was a "setback" for Bradley, "who had campaigned aggressively."
The Moors suffered a major setback in 1212 at the battle of Navas de Tolosa in northern Andalusia, but they still clung to the kingdom of Granada and were only finally evicted from there in 1492.