Sentence examples for pattern of setbacks from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the blocks mount up in a pattern of setbacks like that of a traditional New York building; sometimes they jut out over open space in a way that suggests the architects had something more radical in mind.

The building consists of two parts: the House, a twenty-story structure on Central Park West that mimics the pattern of terraced setbacks characteristic of its prewar neighbors; and the Tower, a thirty-five-story slab that rises behind it, on Broadway, topped by an ornate, asymmetrical loggia (hiding a cooling tower) based on Candela's rooftop design at 1040 Fifth Avenue.

The design phase proceeded slowly, with its share of setbacks.

The discovery that major diseases do not have any simple genetic pattern of causation has dealt a serious setback to the gene-hunting field as a whole, and researchers are trying to figure out their next move.

It has suffered a string of setbacks.

These were the latest in a series of setbacks.

However, there were a number of setbacks too.

He never quite got over a string of setbacks.

But a series of setbacks almost derailed it.

The bargaining follows a series of setbacks for the government.

Ms. McCarthy said she was wiser after years of setbacks.