Realistically, Mr. Adams will need to receive a variance and meet various specifications — setbacks, off-street parking and so forth — to be able to have a church.
In a problem-filled season, pockmarked with professional setbacks, off-court distractions and personal tragedy, Curry has been given an indefinite leave of absence by Donnie Walsh, the Knicks' president.
The current President Bush, despite some setbacks, is off to a calmer start than President Bill Clinton had eight years ago.
Wilson, the former academic, saw it as his job to educate Americans on just that point — namely, that democracy itself, with all its setbacks, trade-offs, partial victories and second chances, was the ideal that allowed all other ideals to be pursued.
The legal setback throws off Disney's multimillion dollar push to establish the GO Network trademark as an all-in-one site of original content, online searches, free E-mail and chat rooms.
Warnock went on to deliver a trademark rant about the standard of refereeing but a side challenging for promotion should not allow such a setback to blow them off course.
Some setbacks on and off the track in recent years have tempered his combativeness, but he will never understand why the hard boots of Kentucky turn up their noses and act as if the jump from quarter horses to thoroughbreds is akin to a door-to-door salesman finding success as a Wall Street mergers-and-acquisitions specialist.
This gives him permission to do things that other politicos cannot and to laugh off setbacks.
What has gone wrong?Officials point to several one-off setbacks.
Losing him was one of several setbacks in an off-season in which they did not acquire any elite players.
