Sentence examples for a pattern of setbacks from inspiring English sources
Sometimes the blocks mount up in a pattern of setbacks like that of a traditional New York building; sometimes they jut out over open space in a way that suggests the architects had something more radical in mind.
While Mr. Lucero's killing was feared to be part of a pattern of anti-Hispanic violence in Suffolk County, the attack on Mr. Sucuzhañay was seen as a tragic setback in an increasingly multicultural pocket of Brooklyn.
Display a pattern of leadership.
We followed a pattern of opening with questions concerning their early life, before probing their entrepreneurial career histories, critical turning-points and the transition to philanthropic engagement, including setbacks and highlights, and concluding with questions regarding what philanthropy had come to mean for them.
Identify a pattern of bossiness.
The building consists of two parts: the House, a twenty-story structure on Central Park West that mimics the pattern of terraced setbacks characteristic of its prewar neighbors; and the Tower, a thirty-five-story slab that rises behind it, on Broadway, topped by an ornate, asymmetrical loggia (hiding a cooling tower) based on Candela's rooftop design at 1040 Fifth Avenue.
It has suffered a string of setbacks.
These were the latest in a series of setbacks.
