The book proposed that women's adaptive responses to setbacks and sadness were of enormous value — that the improvisational nature of some lives is worth emulating and celebrating.
His primary response to everyday setbacks was a beatific "Dude, it's cool".
The economy, already at a crawl, could well slow down further in response to economic setbacks in Europe and China or to homegrown problems like political gridlock that delay spending on job-creation efforts.
Your positive and nonreactive response to resolving setbacks will help your mentee develop his or her own resilience and tenacity.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger hailed his team's response to recent setbacks as they beat Udinese to book a place in the Champions League group stage.
This approach, combined with a solid international grain reserve to be released in response to unforeseeable setbacks, has the best chance of assuring adequate food supplies.
Michael Howard, who wrote the official British history of strategic deception, attributes the lacklustre response to severe setbacks the Allies were then facing on every front, and writes that it is difficult to imagine the Germans believing that a major offensive operation was being planned.
