Mind you, this was generally seen as a temporary setback.
"We just look at it as a temporary setback," he said.
But was that just a temporary setback, or the beginning of something much worse?
He said the judge's ruling was just "a temporary setback."
You've got a really mature attitude to a temporary setback.
One suspects that it was only a temporary setback for progress.
"We only think this is a temporary setback," she said.
He seemed patient, counting his condition only a temporary setback.
It was a temporary setback; they'd find a way to- She froze.
For the French, the fort's loss was considered to be only a temporary setback.