But Villas-Boas said that Parker had encountered setbacks and was yet to return to training.
Lewis's legal campaign has encountered setbacks on other fronts: in April, 2014, the public prosecutor of Bahrain dismissed AHAB's complaint against Sanea, because the Gosaibis had failed to produce purported loan-book victims in court.
Government forces had suffered a series of defeats to rebels in northern Syria, forcing Assad to make a rare public acknowledgement in May that his troops had encountered setbacks and that the necessity of defending critical areas had meant conceding some smaller battles to the rebels.
Instead, we've encountered boredom.
We felt this despair despite the fact that all the work had come in at or near estimate, that the workmen had been competent and honest and, God knows, cordial, that we had encountered no serious setbacks.
We had hoped they would help us avoid the setbacks — including countless cases of nepotism and corruption — that we have encountered.
The current accord, struck in April 1998, has raised the greatest hope of a real resolution, but putting it into effect has encountered continual setbacks.
And while 8 in 10 American doctors still labor in a world of paper, some doctors have encountered upsetting setbacks when they tried to switch to electronic records.
Although this approach has encountered some setbacks, several innovative compounds are currently in an advanced stage of development.
Previous will-they-won't-they moments have always encountered setbacks, be it a near-fatal sting from a virus-carrying bee or the discovery by Scully that the Mulder she'd had her eye on was in fact a shape shifter (don't ask).
In the seven years since, Mr. Sims, an American hotel developer with years of experience working in India, has encountered seemingly endless setbacks.
