But a combination of booming commodity exports, a determined push for the empowerment of the least privileged sectors of the society, a heterodox approach to macroeconomics, a global charm-offensive transforming Brazil into a new force on the international stage, and a personal charisma of no parallel helped Lula to overcome powerful setbacks during his earlier years in office.
They have kept rotating fighters periodically, to give residents a sense that the group remains powerful despite recent setbacks on the battlefield.
The departure of Ms. Carroll — ranked this year by Forbes magazine as 55th on its list of the world's 100 most powerful women — also represents a setback for efforts to get more women to the top of the corporate ladder.
The results show that the neural control-scheme is a powerful instrument for optimizing air conditioning setback scheduling based on external temperature records.
In 2009, the European Union mandated a limit to the retail price of roaming charges for voice calls and short text messages, dealing a setback to the Continent's powerful operators, which had unsuccessfully opposed the caps.
Barnes & Noble sustained a setback on Monday when a powerful proxy advisory company endorsed directors proposed by the billionaire investor Ronald W. Burkle over the company's own slate, which included its chairman, Leonard S. Riggio.
The upset was a major setback for Albany's once powerful Democratic political organization and the city's current Democratic mayor, Gerald D. Jennings, who sometimes aligns himself with the Republican governor, George E. Pataki.
FORTUNE SAC Capital Closes a Trading Unit as It Starts to Retrench | The closure is the latest setback for SAC Capital, the once-powerful hedge fund run by the billionaire Steven A. Cohen that has been hobbled by a criminal indictment.
The split is widely viewed as a serious setback for one of the most powerful anticorruption movements in the past two decades in India.
US officials confirmed Washington had evacuated its remaining personnel from Yemen, including about 100 special operations forces, because of deteriorating security, marking a further setback in US efforts against a powerful local al-Qaida branch.
