On a number of dimensions, perceptions suffered when people encountered setbacks.
But Villas-Boas said that Parker had encountered setbacks and was yet to return to training.
Although the company encountered setbacks in almost all of its business lines, its earnings beat analyst estimates.
His ambitious rehabilitation schedule encountered setbacks in spring training, and now he will most likely rest for four to eight weeks before restarting any baseball activities.
Within a few years, Hickenlooper was a rich man, though he encountered setbacks as his team bought up more restaurants and brewpubs.
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.
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 1373, as Ming forces encountered setbacks, Hongwu put more emphasis on defence and adopted Hua Yunlong's suggestion to establish garrisons at 130 passes and other strategic points in the Beijing area.
But many of the most ambitious AI projects encounter setbacks or fail.
Both the directed and the directionless, Ms. Walters insisted, would encounter setbacks along the way.
