Mr. Xi "grew up with an inheritance of red genes, was tempered by harsh setbacks and suffering, and has steeled himself in complicated international struggle," the profile said, referring to his revolutionary background and career.
On the other side, all nine Democrats voted no, with many warning that putting him on the bench would result in harsh setbacks for civil rights, the environment and safety in the workplace because he was committed to a conservative legal agenda.
Environmental groups, labor unions, abortion rights organizations and other powerful Democratic constituencies said that in dealing them some harsh early setbacks, Mr. Bush had given them a chance to motivate their supporters at the grass-roots level, to raise money and to challenge any claim the new president had to being a moderate.
His smile and easygoing demeanor are all the more remarkable considering that Holden has faced an unusually harsh series of setbacks and disappointments in his six-year professional career.
In short -- as documented at length in my book Reagan at Reykjavik -- he set strategic goals on where he wanted to take superpower relations and nuclear weapons; figured out a pathway of how to get from here to there; trusted the leadership team around him; stayed the course during harsh opposition and grave setbacks; and managed to turn such setbacks into strategic breakthroughs.
The United Nations human rights chief, Navi Pillay, criticized the "extremely harsh" sentence as a setback for protection of human rights in Thailand and expressed her support for moves to amend Thailand's lèse-majesté laws.
The sentencing drew a rebuke from the United Nations human rights chief, Navi Pillay, who criticized the "extremely harsh" sentence as a setback for protection of human rights in Thailand and expressed her support for moves to amend the lèse-majesté laws.
And her loudly proclaimed wish for a fairer Britain has seen only modest trimming of Osborne's harsh plans and some major setbacks (on grammar schools, for example).
While the work was continued by his executors, the project suffered a number of setbacks and was hampered by harsh weather and several serious floods.
