This having happened, it means a setback of two to four years.
There will just be "a setback of two to four years," he says.
And true, it's not solely because of deep corporate pockets that Democrats seem to be headed toward a significant setback in three weeks; a still faltering economy and lack of jobs are giving them a brutal slapping around.
Bannister had a setback three weeks later and did not throw his next major league pitch until late August.
The Conservatives' leader in the Welsh assembly, Andrew RT Davies, said the Welsh Tories suffered a "setback" after "a very difficult six weeks of national headlines".
For the prime minister it represented a second, bitter setback in under two weeks.
The setback comes only six weeks after the party had huge losses in an election in Styria.
But it is a setback for one of the world's oldest satellite operators: Intelsat, the Washington, D.C.-based International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.
Initially listed as week-to-week, he attempted what was considered an early comeback within two weeks of the injury, but suffered a setback during a team practice on December 10, leaving early in discomfort.
This is the Social Democrats' sixth successive setback in state or local elections in six weeks.
Having returned to training in October 2009, May suffered another setback after injuring his other ankle – ruling him out of first-team action for six weeks.
