Turnbull has been acting like a prime minister with time on his hands – time to recover from an election setback, time to plug in to the great geopolitical developments of our age, time to play a part, time to determine a new agenda for a new parliament, time to do some good on a range of fronts, time to fight on and live another day, another week, another month, another term.
Realignment seems to have dealt the Big East another setback, this time in the classroom.
So it is a setback each time Ms. Chavarria has to withdraw $100 for a dialysis treatment.
"We continue to believe that Sequenom has the potential to develop important noninvasive prenatal diagnostic tests," he said, adding that the data problems were "more a setback in time than anything else".
Hugh Sachs, the hopeless suitor to Debbie Chazen's gorgeously dimpling maid, is a man who finds a new setback every time he opens his eyes ('our climate - whose side is it on?').
However, at 14, he suffered another debilitating psychological setback, this time in the unlikely shape of a first teenage joint: "I discovered later that there was probably more opium in it than anything else - it was hashish treated with opium," he says, "It just flipped my mind.
Mr. Paterson, whose popularity has been in decline since he let the appointment of a senator to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton drag on into a credibility-dinging fiasco, risks another potentially embarrassing setback — this time at the hands of the state's highest court.
Recovering from a setback takes time, ingenuity, fortitude, patience, and--occasionally--the courage to make a major change.
But there were no setbacks this time, no twists of fate forcing them back.
All military programs suffer setbacks from time to time, andthe test failure today does not mean that a missile shield can never be constructed.
He has overcome setbacks, including time in jail.
