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Climbdown
Climbdown meaning
A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
Example sentences (10)
But in a spectacular climbdown, the Scottish Government took back all mobile phones on July 31.
Norris then backtracked in his press commitments on Thursday, a climbdown that invited the impression that he had yielded a psychological advantage to the 26-year-old Dutchman.
Some in the Maldives see the replacement of troops by civilians as a climbdown by Mr Muizzu after his high-voltage 'India Out' campaign.
This month’s dramatic escalation, which kicked off with an apparent Israeli airstrike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, followed by a largely foiled Iranian attack of over 300 airborne weapons on Israel, seems to have given way to a rapid climbdown.
Bird shooting climbdown as Michael Gove is forced to cave into Tory MPs furious at plan to stop farmers from.
Ndiweni in Mnangagwa climbdown - Business Daily News Zimbabwe Eskom confirms Zimbabwe paid back the money.
The Macron administration will hope to avoid a repeat of the country's general strike over pension reforms in 1995, which crippled the transport system for three weeks and drew massive popular support, forcing a government climbdown.
It is important for both the government and the RBI to resist the temptation of portraying the boardroom developments as a victory or a climbdown.
Mr Corbyn's climbdown comes less than 48 hours after Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, demanded an end to the investigation and warned that the party faced "eternal shame" over anti-Semitism.
When the Hungarian government moved against CEU last year, saying it violated Hungarian law, in Budapest and howls of indignation from foreign capitals prompted a rare climbdown from Orbán.