Despite repeated setbacks to his efforts to pass gun laws, Mr. Bloomberg has vowed to accelerate his campaign, even after his mayoralty ends in December.
But they fear his planes circling overhead are out to bomb them.Bravado in the face of repeated setbacks seems to be shared by the public.
The complex instrument took 10 years to make — a decade of constant improvement and refinement during which, he said, he had to overcome repeated setbacks and failures.
Almost 200 nations have agreed to work out a new deal by the end of 2015 to combat climate change, after repeated setbacks.
Several groups appear increasingly intent on attacking U.S. and other Western targets, even as al-Qaeda's core leadership struggles to regain its footing after repeated setbacks and eroding popular support in the Muslim world, the officials said.
After repeated setbacks, that figure ballooned to $7.5 billion.
There, despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde attempted to rebuild himself as a man and a man of letters.
Mr. Makishi seems to harbor large stores of equanimity, even in the face of repeated setbacks in the theater purchase.
The coda: In 1954 the inventor of FM radio, Edwin Armstrong, frustrated by repeated setbacks and all but bankrupt, penned a suicide note to his wife and leapt out the window of his 13th-floor apartment.
But the Web site's resilience in the face of repeated setbacks has underscored a lesson already absorbed by more repressive governments that have tried to control the Internet: It is nearly impossible to do.
Efforts to contain the crisis at the stricken complex, which was hit by a massive earthquake and towering tsunami earlier this month, have been hampered by repeated setbacks.
