Sentence examples for setbacks that are from inspiring English sources

It also creates setbacks that are used for open-air terraces and for skylights to naturally illuminate the galleries below.

It will take a lot of hard work and commitment to overcome the intransigence and setbacks that are part of any movement of social reform.

James P. Hoffa, the Teamsters president, has suffered two recent setbacks that are likely to make it harder to achieve his goal of ending federal supervision of the union.

The novelist-protagonist of "Listen Up Philip, Philip Lewiss Friedman, seems never to have experienced such a total defeat — at least, not in his vulnerable youth — and his response to the petty humiliations and minor setbacks that are the lot of the struggling artist is wrathful determination, a vengeance on the world.

Unless U.S. policy fails in a decisive way in Iraq, the administration will attempt to cushion the blow from setbacks that are experienced.

Aside from the the minor setbacks that are bound to emerge in an independently organized festival, Serenity was an enchanting gathering of some of the festival community's finest.

Mr. Corzine suffered setbacks that were not entirely of his own making.

Although the Chrysler Building began as a speculative venture by William H. Reynolds, a former New York State senator, the entire project was bought by Mr. Chrysler, who added touches like the stainless-steel eagle heads that extend from the corners on the 61st floor, and the winged ornaments, on the building's lower setbacks, that were modeled on the radiator caps of 1920's Chrysler automobiles.

And that cloud was heavy, with family drama and financial setbacks that were a constant stress.

In the last year the trio has suffered extraordinary setbacks; setbacks that were entirely their own doing and setbacks that highlight the dangers of not operating under simple guidelines of fairness of common sense.

That's not a setback, that's a catastrophe.