backpedal

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Examples of backpedal

  • The country is moving in the right direction, but should not backpedal.

  • We are backpedalling pretty desperately before we get on our feet, if such a thing be possible.

  • When questioned, he quickly backpedalled and said that he meant to say that it would be a measuring stick and an experiment.

  • I am not backpedalling on my praise of the procurator fiscal system, but we have to be careful about the extent to which we extend his role.

  • The people who are supposed to be paying for them—the banks—have not agreed them, so now he is backpedalling fast and no contracts have been signed.

  • Having seen the earlier document, one appreciates that this provision is a piece of elegant backpedalling in an attempt to save face on the broad principle.

  • While others maintain that he simply injured his knee, while backpedalling, and was unable to continue.

  • The critics initially panned the show, but when it became clear the public loved it, most of them backpedalled.

  • In both cases in course of time they came to backpedal very sharply.

  • We have heard only bluster and backpedal.

  • Both safeties backpedal towards their assigned zone.

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