The phrase "a setback start" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a difficult or challenging beginning, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The project faced a setback start due to unforeseen circumstances, making it difficult to gain momentum."
Alternatives: "a rocky start" or "a difficult beginning".
But the burst came too late for the Trail Blazers, who were dealt a setback when their starting forward Nicolas Batum aggravated a shoulder injury in the first half and did not return.
Nowitzki said he had a setback when he started playing again about a week before training camp.
"The bottom line in our business is wins and losses". Loyola was dealt a setback Saturday when starting guard Brandon Worthy suffered a broken right hand when he went for a steal in the first half of the Lions' exhibition victory over Ratiopharm Ulm of Germany.
He will see whether that translates to the mound on Monday when, barring a setback, he is expected to start in Cincinnati.
Groh stopped short of saying Testaverde is his starter, indicating that, barring a setback, he was leaning toward starting him.
It started with a setback: in 2009, months before the release of her second book, Dark Places, she was fired from her job as a pop culture writer at Entertainment Weekly magazine in Manhattan amid budget cutbacks.
"This is obviously a setback, in part because we started so damn late and there's already quite a bit of damage, but this transition is underway and it's driven by a whole lot of things — human will, local policy, state policy, international policy, technology development," K.C. Golden, the chairman of 350.org, said in an interview.
Activity over analysis will be what gets you reinvigorated from a setback, so the faster you can start operating in solution mode, the faster you'll bounce back.
WHAT began as a setback for President Álvaro Uribe is starting to look like a partly self-inflicted rout.
Dan Hearsch, a battery expert at the consulting firm AlixPartners, posits that many of the setbacks start-ups experience can be chalked up to instances in which the developers failed to properly take into account the nitty-gritty rigors of "real world" application.
