set-back

He understands a harmed condition as one in which there is a ˜set-back to interests;™ and there is a good reason for coercion if the set-back is wrongful, not simply a setback of the order of losing a professional tennis competition or being driven out of business by a rival's superior product.

The Limits of Law Stanton-Ife, John 2006

As you already know, GTO being such a beautifully rustic old town with its unique hillside structures is definitely a set-back to a time, hopefully will stay with us for many more years to come, even if its just for the sake of nostalgia.

Hospeder�a Del Truco 7, Guanajuato 2009

As you already know, GTO being such a beautifully rustic old town with its unique hillside structures is definitely a set-back to a time, hopefully will stay with us for many more years to come, even if its just for the sake of nostalgia.

Hospeder�a Del Truco 7, Guanajuato 2009

Newt and I agreed that the analogy is December 1941: We have experienced an unexpected set-back, but we will re-group and re-focus with increased determination, commitment and positive action.

Newt Gingrich Fails To Qualify For Virginia GOP Primary Despite Residency, Compares Setback To Pearl Harbor [UPDATED] 2011

Despite the set-back, prospects for bipartisanship remain, and may be more necessary now than ever before.

Bradford Kane: Lessons From the Debt Ceiling Crisis: Bipartisanship in the Tea Party Era Bradford Kane 2011

People now wonder if Barack Obama can pivot back to the center like Bill Clinton did after his set-back in '94.

A Referendum on the Redeemer Shelby Steele 2010

Whereas before, the tall girls had any number of reasons why they were models -- age, skin diseases, lopsided faces, hideousness, the fact that they were Tahlia -- many of them this time seem to have only height as their primary set-back.

Little people, big deal 2009

Jack Wilshere will undergo a scan this week, which will reveal the severity of the set-back that he has suffered as he fights to recover from the stress fracture to his ankle that has ruined his season.

Arsenal's Per Mertesacker out for over a month with ankle injury 2012

As you already know, GTO being such a beautifully rustic old town with its unique hillside structures is definitely a set-back to a time, hopefully will stay with us for many more years to come, even if its just for the sake of nostalgia.

Hospeder�a Del Truco 7, Guanajuato 2009

Dorwin Teague, whose work is featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, suggested that set-back windows with an overhang would prevent bird deaths.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011