back-pedal

• “Even leaving aside the things she has tried to back-pedal out of, claiming they were just footnotes or whatever (like saying pregnant women were victims of involuntary servitude), this is a woman who fought before the Supreme Court (unsuccessfully, Deo gratias) to deny religious leaders their First Amendment rights; who has argued forcefully that “gender rights” trump all First Amendment rights, especially religious rights, — even in YOUR OWN MIND.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Dawn Johnsen Withdraws Nomination to be OLC Chief

• “It's probably too pat to ascribe Come Around Sundown's gentle back-pedal from the huge success of its predecessor to some Tennessean burglars.”

  The Guardian: Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown – review

• “That being said, actors spill the beans all the time and are forced to back-pedal until contracts are signed or the studio gives the go ahead.”

  Jeremy Renner Will Not Be Hawkeye « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more

• “This is a rebuttal of someone's writing that it was "sensible" for NASA to back-pedal from metric (again!) because of the potential problems with the Space Shuttle documentation.”

  NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch

• “White House political chief David Axelrod, speaking on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, tried to back-pedal from the significance of Obama's action.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner

• “His big announcement--that in a Perry administration foreign aid for each country would "start at zero"--sounded groundbreaking on the surface, but not so radical when almost immediately he had to back-pedal on Israel.”

  The Huffington Post: Alan Schroeder: The Commander-in-Chief Debate

• “And yet even this proved too much for a squeamish public: a prompt tsunami of outrage from offended viewers caused advertisers to back-pedal away from anything that might be seen as graphic or upsetting (i.e. instructive or useful), thereby setting an already low bar even lower.”

  The Huffington Post: How to Advertise Down There

• “What led disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis, who spent three and a half years after his 2006 Tour de France victory denying he doped, to not only back-pedal on his story in May, but accuse onetime teammate Lance Armstrong of using performance-enhancing drugs?”

  Newsweek: Roots of a Rift

• “My money is on him losing the fight and issuing some sort of back-pedal statement on his official site - and before long too.”

  Bryan Singer Wants Jack the Giant Killer To Be 3D, Paramount Considering 3D Star Trek Sequel | /Film

• “He then went on to back-pedal on largely everything, at least the most outrageous allegations, that he'd previously reported.”

  Brad Friedman: O'Reilly Unrepentant, Tones Back 'Tiller the Killer' Rhetoric on First Show Since Murder

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