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- verb Alternative spelling of
backpedal .
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Examples
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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.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
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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.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
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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.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
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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.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
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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.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
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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 2009
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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.
Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown – review Kitty Empire 2010
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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 2010
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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 2009
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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.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
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