The Qataris suffered two other, lesser setbacks in recent days: on Monday, 22 journalists at Al Jazeera resigned en masse, citing what they said was the station's biased coverage of the Brotherhood.
The curious reader may well finish this book and wish that scholars would pay more attention to how much American setbacks in lesser wars like Korea and Vietnam might have been influenced by gaps in our technological mastery.
In this paper, the requirement of a storm beach buffer, being a lesser extent landward comparing with the coastal setback to ensure the safety of infrastructures, is numerically assessed using the SBEACH model for three categories of wave conditions in terms of storm return period, median sand grain size, berm width, and design water level.
SÃO PAULO — In the end, the Formula One drivers' title ended in the most fitting way possible: a mad dash from beginning to end, with the two finalists having to overcome setbacks that would have eliminated lesser drivers.
For lesser sides, it might have been a crushing setback.
Normally, setbacks like these would hobble a lesser manager.
It's interesting that Armstrong and Ellington were both known for their upbeat natures, and for their dignified stoicism in the wake of setbacks and hardships that would have leveled lesser mortals.
Two such setbacks in quick succession would hobble a lesser manager.
You are wrong to think that you will be more unhappy with a big single setback (a broken wrist, a broken heart) than with a lesser chronic one (a trick knee, a tense marriage).
An instinctive and normally unerring sense of political timing combined with sheer animal cunning has enabled him blithely to escape from setbacks and scandals that might well have derailed a lesser politician.
