setback

• I invest for the long term myself and can suffer a temporary setback which is exactly what the rest of the investors need to be doing as well. —  Shadowscope
• "Mirroring the traditional New York setback, the building's form is at once familiar and distinctive", —  edgargonzalez.com
• Somewhere in someone's subconscious, this outcome would be seen as a setback - as a failure. —  Buffalo Pundit
• Though it gives them good financial rewards and gratification of their desires yet what suffers a big setback is their health. —  Shaister Miester Do Da
• If so, it would be a setback -- you'd think he wouldn't start just five days after throwing 36 pitches -- but not a major one.

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