Every setback was attributed to temporary factors — It's the Greeks!
The financial setback was attributed to losses on certain commercial real estate loans in Philadelphia and loans to some international customers made by Fidelity Bank, the company's Philadelphia branch.
Both setbacks were attributed to the drop in oil and gas drilling.
Yet roughly one-third of the regulatory rollbacks Pruitt attempted were halted by legal challenges ― setbacks widely attributed to his brash style and overeagerness to antagonize environmentalists.
A statement attributed to Anonymous claimed responsibility.
The agreement will lead to a rearrangement of the European market, giving Chiquita and Dole, the other large American banana producer and exporter, a chance to regain market share in Europe and to recover from financial setbacks that the companies attributed to unfairness in the European import system.
A significant number were attributed to electrocution.
Despite occasional setbacks (some of which were attributed to budget cuts when NBC was purchased by GE in 1985), the network climbed to the top of the ratings with a steady diet of popular situation comedies Cheers (1982 93), The Cosby Show (1984 92), Seinfeld (1989 98), and Friends (1994 2004)—and powerful dramatic series Law & Order (1990 2010), ER (1994 2009), and The West Wing (1999 2006).
Among his worst setbacks, he said, was finishing last in the 2009 Democratic primary for comptroller, which he attributed to a lack of support from the Democratic Party machine.
There have been advances by AQ at the ideological level, it has spawned franchises, but don't lose sight of the operational setbacks that AQ has suffered". The plots attributed to Masri were ambitious, but authorities infiltrated two cells long before they could strike.
A hubris he attributes to the sculptor.
