Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has considered expanding into Russia for years in spite of setbacks in its planned expansion in Germany, where it retreated in the face of local competition.
He recovered the next day, climbed out and composed one of the 17th century's top hits, "Oh, Dear Augustin, Everything's Gone," an ode to life in spite of setbacks.
He focuses on companies whose balance sheets have remained strong in spite of setbacks in their business.
Sticking with difficult times has allowed me to experience some of the most cherished moments in my life, like performing my one woman show across the country for the past four years, in spite of setbacks, disappointments, surgical disasters.
If Helmand were to fall, it would deliver a blow to government claims that Afghan security forces, fighting largely alone since international troops ended combat operations last year, are controlling the insurgency, in spite of setbacks such as the fall of Kunduz.
For if the vice president and his neoconservative advisers have their way -- and they remain, in spite of setbacks, the most active, energetic, and ambitious faction within the Bush administration -- the U.S. will be at war with Iran or on the way to war by January 2009.
It's more like "in spite of".
Eventually, in spite of major setbacks, doctors found a way of juggling his anti-HIV pills.
A test in 2011 also failed.In spite of such setbacks, research into hypersonic weapons will continue.
In spite of these setbacks she made it into the top 50 in the world and was the British number one for many years.
But if anything, the site's steady growth in spite of its setbacks only validates the company's approach, said Ray Valdes, an analyst at the research firm Gartner.
