The phrase "advances and setbacks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe progress and challenges encountered in a particular situation or process.
Example: "The project experienced both advances and setbacks, ultimately leading to a successful outcome."
Alternatives: "progress and challenges" or "gains and losses".
The history of democracy in Latin America is one of advances and setbacks.
Nigeria's election is the most important political event of the year in an Africa of constant advances and setbacks, where every gain is fragile and every defeat reversible.
Through all the advances and setbacks, Child is alternately confident to the point of arrogance and insecure almost to the point of giving up.
On the other hand, the Emancipation Proclamation was styled as the beginning of the end of discrimination against black men and women, when in truth the nearly 140 years since have been a dizzying succession of advances and setbacks.
The story of women's rights in Iran is one of advances and setbacks, stretching back to the start of the twentieth century, when a national women's movement first took shape.
In the introduction, he points to the shifting versions of Lois over time and observes that she "embodies the progress and struggles of American women, an ongoing cycle of advances and setbacks".
In recent years, however, there have been few further advances and several setbacks.
It also risks limiting advances at a national level, which on issues from women's rights to arms negotiations is often highly influenced by progress (and setbacks) at global level.
Herein, we will review recent advances and also potential setbacks with respect to the myriad of therapeutic strategies that are designed to slow down, prevent, or clear the accumulation of either "pathological" Aβ or tau.
So bar a few states, mainly in the West, which may hold public votes in the coming years, advocates are likely to enjoy most of their advances, and surely some setbacks, in courtrooms.
