I think it is right to back off from that.
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And some of his aides did not back off from the sharp language.
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In October, 38 senators urged Mr. Pruitt to back off from any changes. Gov.
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S. talks and China has warned the U.S. to back off from any official exchanges.
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There's no reason for Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not to back off from that.
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And it did not back off from earlier promises that it wouldn't seek a nuclear weapon.
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The letter appeared to back off from demanding the portions of the report redacted for grand jury reasons.
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Yet he also insists there are no plans to back off from Paraguay's old school war on weed.
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Conservatives have had to back off from their plan to repeal Obamacare now and worry about replacement later.
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Would he back off from the Obama administration's decision to bolster the American military presence off Russia's borders?
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" The opening of the Apple Music description for the record doesn't back off from that classification: "Sinatra. Vandross. Thugger.
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In recent days, Trump appeared to back off from any hasty pullout and stressed that the operation would be slow.
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The Justice Department has consistently said courts must back off from territory strictly reserved for the White House and Congress.
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In his speech, Ri said the nation would not back off from its nuclear weapons without being able to trust Washington.
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The Trump administration's proposed tariffs won't take effect immediately, allowing time for both sides to back off from their tariff threats.
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Despite our best diplomatic and cybersecurity efforts, Chinese hackers are unlikely to back off from preying upon American businesses anytime soon.
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Trump has repeatedly suggested, without offering evidence, that Joe Biden pressed Ukraine to back off from a corruption investigation of the company.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said he believed Trump would "back off" from his tariff threat when faced with the strong opposition.
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Thus, the GOP's position appears to back off from support for homeownership, which has been a bipartisan goal for nearly 100 years.
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We have already seen some Republicans back off from this battle since North Carolina's law sparked a national uproar and business boycotts.
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It essentially said that if conservatives make enough noise — even if these accounts ARE harmful — it will back off from its troll hunt.
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Rather, it's that Trump made a decision not to back off from them during the biggest moment of the general election to date.
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Bloomberg News does say it will back off from administration investigations if the former mayor makes it to the general election against Trump.
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Other places, including San Jose, Broward County in Florida, and the entire state of Georgia had to back off from fingerprinting to keep ridesharing.
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They added that U.S. diplomats in New York even asked their Israeli counterparts to press their Rwandan allies to back off from the resolution.
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It's possible that China will back off from its broadest claims, but it may also demonstrate a willingness to buck the international legal system.
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Many investors fear that the Trump administration will back off from its commitment to save ZTE in the face of political pressure back home.
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At a summit in China, Obama told Putin to back off from any election tampering, and he talked about the issue at a press conference.
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It's just that they repeatedly stumble into completely twisted situations — and often find themselves having way too much fun to back off from them entirely.
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China could back off from rules that favor local competitors and require American companies to share technology if they want access to the Chinese market.
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"Pyongyang seems set to push Washington to back off from past demands of full denuclearization for what are only promises of sanctions relief," he said.
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For her part, Merkel is likely to urge Trump to use restraint when it comes to Iran and to back off from the escalating standoff.
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"We have started to see students back off from the U.S. because of their concerns about potential issues they may face," Jones told an analyst call.
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People tend to back off from that position quickly when challenged because sexual freedom and liberation are really central to the values of the Ace Community.
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And, she may think she's only worthy of praise when she excels — which can cause her to back off from trying anything where she might fail.
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Back then, I didn't know a DEA agent would hint at the prosecutorial power of the federal government to get me to back off from reporting.
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Inbound interest was so high at one point that the company issued a stern warning to dealmakers to back off from the company and its shareholders.
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Those cases are still making their way through the courts, however, which makes Mississippi the first state to back off from a veggie burger label ban.
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Macron's predecessor Francois Hollande also had to back off from a plan to reduce road transport after angry truckers destroyed gantries meant to charge fees on trucks.
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Perhaps Flynn knows more about why Trump may have been so keen to urge the FBI to back off from him, and told Mueller what he knows.
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The company has decided to back off from its pledge to buy 1,000 bitcoin mining machines — just six weeks after it said it would be doing so.
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"We have started to see students back off from the U.S. because of their concerns about potential issues they may face," Jones told analysts on an earnings call.
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South Korean shares advanced 0.65 percent after the leaders of both North Korea and the United States appeared to back off from their heated rhetoric from last week.
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To the relief of many at the meeting, the Trump administration did resolve its immigration fight with Mexico and back off from a threat to impose more tariffs.
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There is nothing in Trump's history or his current actions to suggest that he will back off from his attempts to control the media for his own benefit.
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It's also repeatedly signaled a desire to back off from the issue, including relaxing school lunch regulations that were targeted at making the food in schools more nutritious.
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Investors can afford to back off from Yeti now that the stock has pulled back from the hot gains it carried in recent months, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday.
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"I might have to just back off from this neighborhood," Mr. Barrett said when he learned of the quarantine for congregants who might be stuck at home, ordering delivery.
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But after the American Civil Liberties Union issued a letter condemning these bills as presenting significant challenges to free speech, some Democrats started to back off from their support.
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Public outrage over its lewdness online, however, placed enough pressure on the museum to back off from showing the piece — a decision that in turn drew complaints of institutional censorship.
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One has to hope that, after the election, whoever moves into the White House will soon back off from the more radical economic policy proposals made during the election campaign.
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There have been mixed signals whether the United States and China will back off from existing tariffs — whether this will amount to de-escalation, or simply to ceasing the escalation.
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We know that President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in part because Comey would not back off from investigating links to Russia in general and Michael Flynn in particular.
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But moving on, we've repeatedly heard suggestions today that if Trump was only trying to get the F.B.I. to back off from one person, Flynn, that's not a big problem.
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It was reported that Sandberg lobbied Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar — who was behind legislation to increase political advertising restrictions on Facebook — to back off from posting criticism about the company.
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On Friday, Iran said European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Iran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by that agreement.
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Hopefully, May will find some way soon to back off from her "hard" Brexit path even though this will surely cost her a loss of face with her Conservative Party base.
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But to the relief of many at the G-22 meeting, the Trump administration did resolve its immigration fight with Mexico and back off from a threat to impose more tariffs.
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So they may have successfully gotten Trump to back off from some idea but made sure no reporters found out about it lest Trump feel embarrassed and change his mind again.
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To the Bone doesn't back off from the physical consequences of its characters' disorders — not just the weight loss, but the other ways (some of them devastating) the body shuts down.
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"I think it requires somebody like me, a Republican, to call Comey before the (Senate) Judiciary Committee," he said, adding that Trump should "back off" from commenting or tweeting about the investigation.
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Firing Krugljakow and getting back his shares before raising money seems like a greedy move as most investors will back off from any potential investment deal once they're in the due diligence process.
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The administration should back off from its dangerous folly, commit to the deal, enforce it to the hilt, and work with our partners on a long-term strategy to deal with Iran's challenge.
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They've been pressuring his administration to back off from its plan to add steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, which are used to make everything from cars to boats and even soup cans.
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Forbes's Scott Mendelson has argued persuasively that the situation with The Interview had a chilling effect, causing major studios to back off from potentially incendiary political movies, and this can only worsen that trend.
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She ruled out Monday, the day on which Senate Republicans have scheduled a hearing, as a possibility, but she appeared to back off from her earlier request that an F.B.I. investigation precede her testimony.
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If we agree to back off from trying to change the regime in Damascus, not only will we gain a seat at the negotiating table, but we will regain Russia's cooperation in fighting ISIL.
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A group of military veteran lawmakers is urging President Trump to back off from provocative statements and moves against North Korea following a Pentagon report on what a war with the isolated nation would entail.
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It seems to affirm the belief, held by many Chinese officials, that Mr. Trump will back off from his trade-war threats if markets tumble, or if his supporters in agricultural states suffer too much.
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Another Senator, New York's Chuck Schumer, reportedly lobbied Virginia's Mark Warner, one of Facebook's most vocal critics and another sponsor alongside Klobuchar of the ad restrictions bill, to back off from criticizing Facebook as well.
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A majority of the justices decided to back off from confrontation with Congress in the midst of Brazil's biggest political corruption scandal, which has even implicated President Michel Temer and his inner circle of cabinet ministers.
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RELATED: Donald Trump's immigration policy: Then and now Kellyanne Conway, Trump's newly appointed campaign manager, said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the candidate might back off from his support of a deportation force.
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According to a report published Tuesday in New York Times, Comey's written memo of a February meeting with Trump says Trump asked Comey to back off from looking into disgraced former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn.
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It was Sessions, for example, who signed off on Trump's highly unusual decision to fire FBI Director James Comey after the director refused to back off from the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
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As airlines back off from formerly strict policies around in-flight mobile use, GCHQ and the NSA have been ready and waiting with their own high-altitude surveillance solution, coming to a commercial airline near you.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - European countries offered too little at last-ditch talks on Friday to persuade Iran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by its nuclear agreement with world powers, Iran's envoy said.
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Trump's comments align with a similar warning from U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who said on CNBC panel in Davos this week that tariffs could come if EU members don't back off from their digital tax plans.
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Jitters have eased this week, however, as pressure to back off from plans to implement new tariffs grew and as market participants came to view Trump's proposed tariffs more as a negotiating tactic than a hard policy proposal.
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" At a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing last week, Secretary Kelly joined several other witnesses who all said that fencing often provides more security to border agents and appeared to back off from using the word "wall.
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North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho slammed the U.S. in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, saying the nation would not back off from its nuclear weapons without being able to trust Washington.
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But May could find it difficult to convince Trump, who has made "America First" a theme of his administration, to get a titan of U.S. industry to back off from defending what it views as its trade rights.
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"There is a major scramble and counter-offensive happening among the Democratic Party establishment to ensure that leading 2020 candidates back off from single-payer, Medicare for All," Waleed Shahid, the Justice Democrats top spokesman, tweeted on Saturday.
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Stocks rose after four days of declines, with the U.S. benchmark S&P 500 higher and Europe closing near session highs as pressure grew on U.S. President Donald Trump to back off from planned tariffs on steel and aluminum.
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Immigrant rights groups held a noisy rally in the Capitol last week urging Brown and de Leon not to back off from the strict immigrant protections de Leon originally proposed in the wake of Donald Trump's election as president.
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Coons said last year in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that Facebook should come up with its own solutions to misinformation and privacy concerns if it wants Congress to back off from regulating them, according to Bloomberg.
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Their disclosure comes soon after the Trump administration drafted an executive order calling for reviving the C.I.A. "black site" prisons, though the White House has since appeared to back off from the idea after lawmakers and cabinet officials objected.
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He has made his hard line against Muslims central to his campaign, and, even after becoming the presumptive nominee and turning to a broader electorate, refused to fully back off from his call to temporarily halt Muslims from traveling to America.
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That request came after Trump reportedly asked Comey to back off from investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a conversation Comey will likely have to testify about in his highly-anticipated appearance with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
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As The Times reported, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer — who in 2016 received more donations from Facebook employees than any other member of Congress — pressured Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, to back off from his pointed inquiries into the company.
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Wisconsin and Mississippi are likely just the first of many states whose Texas-like laws will be struck down after the Supreme Court's ruling, and Alabama probably won't be the only state to back off from obviously unconstitutional court challenges.
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Iran met with the European parties in Vienna on Friday but said they had offered too little in the way of trade assistance to persuade Tehran to back off from its plan to breach the limit, a riposte to Trump's withdrawal.
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This leads her to her next topic, with stark references to the Financial Crisis: Now - the good times - is not the time to back off from regulation and it's not the time to lower capital requirements and reduce liquidity rules.
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Stocks across the globe rose after four days of declines, with the U.S. benchmark S&P 500 higher and Europe closing at a session high as pressure grew on U.S. president Donald Trump to back off from planned tariffs on steel and aluminum.
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More immediately, one would hope that the Trump administration will find a way to back off from the anti-globalization rhetoric of the presidential election campaign, since resorting to more protectionist policies is the last thing that a fragile global economy now needs.
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Mr. Trump's decision to back off from across-the-board tariffs came in the face of strident warnings from the American business world and leaders of his own Republican Party that such a course would damage the American economy and alienate allies.
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Diplomats believe Haftar for now faces no pressure to back off from backers including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and France, who see him as the best bet to end the factional chaos plaguing Libya since Gaddafi's fall in a 2011 uprising.
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" In an editorial, the official English-language China Daily said the measure was "a stark violation of the core spirit of recent trade talks between China and the United States and is set to backfire if Washington doesn't back off from its dangerous adventurism.
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Beijing could back off from an earlier promise to buy more American products including soybeans and natural gas, and announce tariffs against U.S. products that would hit Trump's key base of political support, said Laura Baughman, president of The Trade Partnership and Trade Partnership Worldwide.
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Before the phone call, the consensus position that the Trump administration had reached, backed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, was that Trump would tell Erdogan to back off from his threats to attack Kurdish forces in Syria.
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" In an editorial, the official English-language China Daily said the measure was "a stark violation of the core spirit of recent trade talks between China and the United States and is set to backfire if Washington doesn't back off from its dangerous adventurism.
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Yes, Britain fined Equifax 500,000 pounds last month (hardly a staggering sum for a company that brings in upward of $3 billion in annual revenue), but the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau decided this year to back off from its investigation of the breach.
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Iran's envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear accord said on Friday that European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by the deal.
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LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh on Monday denied reports that he had disagreements with President Hassan Rouhani, adding that he will not back off from his duties as criticism mounts over his ability to sell Iranian oil despite U.S. sanctions.
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The idea — dubbed the "Ferguson effect" after the Ferguson, Missouri, protests that elevated the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement — is that the protests have demoralized police officers, leading them to back off from proactive policing, while emboldening criminals, who now see the police as more vulnerable.
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For a start, Iran gains access to frozen assets without having to end its support to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, stop backing the Shiite rebels in Yemen who are fighting a proxy war with the Saudis or back off from its support to Lebanese Hezbollah.
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While past presidents have tried at least ostensibly to keep security and economic issues on separate tracks in their dealings with China, Mr. Trump has explicitly linked the two, suggesting he would back off from a trade war against Beijing if it does more to pressure North Korea.
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During talks in Vienna Friday, European countries still party to the deal made a last-ditch effort to persuade Iran to back off from plans to breach the limit, but it was not enough to dissuade Iranian officials, who believe they haven't done enough to safeguard Tehran from the sanctions.
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After talks on Friday in Vienna, Iran said European countries had offered too little in the way of trade assistance to persuade it to back off from its plan to breach the limit, a riposte to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision last year to quit the deal and reimpose economic sanctions.
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AUGUSTA, Me. — The beleaguered Republican governor of Maine seemed on Tuesday to back off from hints that he might quit in the midst of a controversy over his latest tirades of obscene, threatening and racially charged remarks, as Republican lawmakers in the House rallied to quash the possibility of formally rebuking him — or worse — for his erratic behavior. Gov.
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Sen. John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (R-Texas) is urging the White House to back off from a plan to require cuts to legal immigration as part of a deal to protect young immigrants brought to the country illegally.
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Senate Republicans are sending a pointed message to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE to back off from his national emergency declaration, arguing that he has $220006 billion currently available from multiple funds — more than he requested — to build border barriers.
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It comes after EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE said last week he would back off from plans to change the biofuels mandate.
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The letter comes after EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE said he would back off from plans to change the biofuels mandate amid pressure from Midwestern senators.
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Frustrated Republican lawmakers plan to step up pressure on President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE to back off from his aggressive trade policies, which have cast a shadow over the U.S. economy, hurt farmers and prompted some companies to curtail domestic manufacturing.
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But Mike is right: The move by Bloomberg News to back off from investigations of its owner, presidential candidate Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Krystal Ball warns about lagging youth support for Buttigieg Bloomberg unveils proposal to increase earned income tax credit, federal funding for housing programs MORE, and his Democratic primary rivals is understandable, given how any probe would play out in public.
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