I have confidence that this effort will pay off, and perceived setbacks like Ms. Newsome's article will be long forgotten.
After a year, his post was abolished, a decision perceived as a setback for efforts to establish civilian control over Mexico's military and police forces.
As for the Obama camp, some felt that even though many ward leaders have already endorsed him, he is not well known enough to have won the group endorsement and that would have been perceived as a setback.
The results for the correlation matrix for both groups -those who had side setback areas, and, those who did not have side setback areas- showed a general tendency towards perceiving the side setback areas as possible threats to one's privacy for those who did not have them.
The release of the man they fought so hard to overthrow is perceived as a huge setback to the uprising.
When a federal judge barred prosecutors on Wednesday from using a crucial witness in the first civilian trial of a former Guantánamo terrorism detainee, the ruling — widely perceived as a major setback for the government — contained an unusual observation.
Last November, Clinton was the first Secretary of State to visit Burma since John Foster Dulles, in 1955 — and the occasion was perceived in Beijing as a setback for its efforts to consolidate power in Asia.
Such setbacks, real or perceived, can have important consequences if political actors try to shore up their own political bases, thus eroding the leader's power.
While Lowe has also landed several assignments in that time, from marketers like Interbrew, LG Electronics, Nestlé and Virgin Mobile, the setbacks have been widely perceived to outweigh the gains.
The Obama administration's stepped-up campaign against perceived Chinese economic espionage has had setbacks.
