Last November, after years of rolling smoothly toward anticipated certification, production and delivery of its first aircraft this year, Eclipse suffered a tremendous setback when the lightweight engines to be produced for the jets by Williams International failed to meet requirements.
He was not crushed in spirit in spite of the tremendous setback he had received, but wrote to Alexander advising him to bear his success as one who was only human and to release the captives in return for a large ransom.
Trump himself called it a "tremendous setback". But the reason the summit did not take place is easy to understand: There is no reason to negotiate if there is not a deal to be had.
The CEO of the nonprofit National Women's Law Center called the decision to halt the pay data disclosure initiative a "tremendous setback". "What they have said is that they thought this was 'burdensome,'" said Fatima Goss Graves, who leads the organization aimed at advancing women's equality.
There's also the effort to re-elect New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine -- for without him, the effort to secure marriage equality there will suffer a tremendous setback.
"It would be a tremendous, tremendous setback," said Pepe Hernandez, the president of the Cuban American National Foundation, which provides support to the anti-Castro movement in Cuba.
From the Times: "This is a tremendous setback," said Steve Valk, communications director for the Citizens Climate Lobby, an advocacy group devoted to enacting a carbon tax in the United States.
"If Novartis had won, this would have been a tremendous setback for us," he said.
"I believe that this is a tremendous setback for North Korea and, indeed, a setback for the world," Trump said.
