When they did the secondary we backed away from it.
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On Syria, he has backed away from demanding Assad's ouster.
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This week the president backed away from the idea entirely.
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Since Trump's election, it has backed away from that line .
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That's the ONLY reason GOP backed away from gutting OCE.
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Ms. Bruner never backed away from her remarks on Facebook.
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Several states already have backed away from the Common Core.
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Fortunately the president backed away from making such a play.
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The Congressional Black Caucus backed away from Farrakhan in 1994.
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Potential rivals may have backed away from running against Gov.
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At her confirmation hearing, she backed away from that position.
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Saudi Arabia backed away from Trump's Middle East peace deal.
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Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand, have backed away from it.
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But Democrats say the president backed away from the agreement.
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But the President has since publicly backed away from that.
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And some states have backed away from loosening gun control laws.
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The administration has since backed away from the rationale of deterrence.
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But after this, Huawei backed away from the U.S. telecommunications market.
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But the White House has backed away from broader religious liberty.
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Insurers also backed away from the NRA, including MetLife and Chubb.
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On Thursday, Flynn, through his spokesperson, backed away from the denial.
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Days later, the administration backed away from the one-year talk.
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The evangelist backed away from Bill, and then extended his arm.
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China backed away from an earlier draft agreement in early May.
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It already has backed away from lawsuits against restrictive voting practices.
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At the last minute, however, McConnell backed away from two provisions.
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Since the election Mrs May has backed away from that threat.
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The EU body has repeatedly backed away from imposing sanctions on governments.
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Yet, the campaign has never backed away from it or clarified it.
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Mrs Clinton has backed away from her earlier enthusiasm for the TPP.
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N) has backed away from launching a takeover of NH Hotels (NHH.
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Flashback ... The companies who have backed away from Saudi business over Khashoggi
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The Trump children have backed away from both ventures in recent days.
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I became so wildly enthusiastic that the guy backed away from me.
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I slowly backed away from the situation and disappeared into the crowd.
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Not surprisingly, investors backed away from that risky market late last year.
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The officer backed away from him slowly and drew his own weapon.
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Mr. MacArthur backed away from this part of his proposal on Wednesday.
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She said Romney lost because he backed away from being tough on immigration.
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And in 2011, it applied for but then backed away from an IPO.
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McNeal then grew frightened and picked up Jaquerrion and backed away from Evans.
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Kalanick and his friends now say he's backed away from the "libertarian" label.
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And prominent Republican lawmakers have backed away from the idea of discarding it.
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The company emphasized highly automated systems and then backed away from that approach.
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Trump, though, quickly backed away from the idea after criticism from both parties.
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A special prosecutor said the officers could have backed away from a confrontation.
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Donald Trump has backed away from birtherism, but Sheriff Arpaio evidently has not.
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The companies later backed away from those statements, and "Hannity" was relatively unaffected.
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He also backed away from education reform and the Common Core more broadly.
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"He hasn't backed away from any of these things at all," Sanders said.
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In each case, cooler heads prevailed & POTUS backed away from impulsive flare-ups.
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Correction: House Republicans backed away from the Office of Congressional Ethics plan on Tuesday.
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In new tweets early Thursday, Trump backed away from his apparent embrace of Assange.
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White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney backed away from Trump's comments early on Wednesday.
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In recent days, Trump has backed away from that rhetoric -- if not the policies.
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But this was part of the reason Trump backed away from the Summit table.
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The major nuclear powers have gradually backed away from that brink over the years.
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As for Larson, he hasn&apost backed away from his extreme, even repugnant views.
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Facing such huge bills, Trump's own Navy secretary backed away from his president's pledge.
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The government has since backed away from that and is officially aiming for 2085.
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Earnest, however, backed away from any suggestion that he was making a similar claim.
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However, this week it backed away from a one-year high, falling 26.4 percent.
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It's far from the first time Trump has abruptly backed away from a promise.
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Now, with congressional scrutiny and other attacks, Valeant has backed away from this approach.
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This February, in a draft report, it backed away from that relatively firm conclusion.
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And Democrats quickly backed away from saying anything critical about the Bidens and Ukraine.
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Clinton once advocated for the trade deal but has since backed away from it.
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The WSJ reports that Bank of America backed away from changing the name before.
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Meanwhile, the administration backed away from one trade war while seeming to initiate another.
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Now that Democrats have backed away from a real fight, the expectations have shifted.
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And again with that one, a lot of GOP leaders backed away from Trump.
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It also tried but ultimately backed away from buying PostNL, the Dutch incumbent postal service.
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MTV backed away from videos altogether in order to fully embrace reality and scripted programming.
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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page backed away from a planned interview on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
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He then backed away from claiming any knowledge about the group that issued the tweets.
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In February, Booker notably backed away from supporting the abolition of the private insurance industry.
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After he won the election, Trump backed away from his pledge to further investigate Clinton.
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Two other Republicans have backed away from earlier comments signaling support for a hearing: Sens.
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The European Commission has backed away from forcing trading in euro derivatives to leave London.
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The Department of Justice has not backed away from prosecuting individual police officers for abuses.
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Its revenue from selling phones, a market Microsoft has backed away from, fell 72 percent.
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At first we backed away from telling the story because we're not from the community.
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Having faced the abyss, both parties backed away from it in subsequent rounds of negotiation.
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The Indonesian government appears to have backed away from confronting China, its largest trading partner.
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He backed away from a previous threat to shut down the southern U.S. border, however.
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In reaction, our allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates backed away from confrontation.
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In doing so, she backed away from conventional rock instrumentation and embraced new digital textures.
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"He hasn't backed away from these things at all," Sanders said at a press briefing.
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Arizona's filing offers little explanation of why the state backed away from its initial support.
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The White House on Wednesday backed away from two controversial judicial nominees opposed by Sen.
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Later in the campaign, Mr. Trump backed away from calling for a total Muslim ban.
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Mr. Flynn later backed away from that assertion, saying his memory might have been faulty.
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump backed away from the policy with little more than a shrug.
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In July, FF backed away from its plans to build a $1 billion factory in Nevada.
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Earlier, officials had warned of a physical blockade, but the governor's office backed away from that.
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But he backed away from ordering the mission, asking for support from Congress that never came.
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Trump has backed away from his pledges to repeal Obama's health care law in its entirety.
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Despite reports of its private negotiations, SEIU publicly backed away from advocating for such a compromise.
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Creator Dong Nguyen ultimately backed away from the spotlight in the wake of the game's success.
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When Obama considered and eventually backed away from action, Trump knocked him for signaling his plans.
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Although the charismatic Lanier was VR's biggest champion, he's since backed away from that hippie idealism.
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He never backed down or backed away from giving to us the news — straight and true.
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Broadcom has backed away from a $20 billion bid for Toshiba's memory chip business, sources said.
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Following an enormous backlash -- from liberals as well as hardliners -- Joko backed away from the plan.
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They join a number of Democrats in high profile races who backed away from Pelosi. Rep.
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After intense debate, the Clinton administration eventually backed away from threats to limit trade with China.
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The city has backed away from plans to fill the Maspeth Holiday Inn with homeless families.
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"Many police have backed away from repressing, even if they don't say so publicly," Cuadras said.
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The Justice Department backed away from the use of consent decrees under President George W. Bush.
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Mr. Trump backed away from the threat earlier Tuesday after being told it would be illegal.
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The Japanese yen further backed away from its lowest since April 2019 against the U.S. currency.
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The problem for Republicans is that they have not yet backed away from universal coverage rhetorically.
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Some Republicans on the committee have backed away from the notion Russia wasn't helping Trump. Rep.
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More than a dozen businesses backed away from the NRA over its response to the shooting.
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Washington backed away from the idea following Erdoğan's threats, calling the whole thing a big miscommunication.
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He backed away from individual real estate development projects, including some in Argentina, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
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For example, a Pride staff member resigned after Pride backed away from its promises to BLMTO.
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It has not formally backed away from NATO, the Paris climate accords or the Iranian nuclear deal.
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The president ultimately backed away from both demands and said he would seek the border money later.
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The dollar was a shade weaker and backed away from a two-month high hit last week.
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Now he backed away from that immediately and he may come back with a different number tonight.
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Later, he sort of backed away from that, and stocks rallied back a little bit after that.
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Trump's Tuesday remarks put space between him and the Republican establishment, which has backed away from Moore.
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However, McGlockton's girlfriend disputed Drejka's account, saying her boyfriend backed away from Drejka after he pushed him.
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Now he backed away from that immediately and he may come back with a different number tonight.
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That's not to say, of course, that Nintendo has backed away from pursuits outside of the Switch.
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" And Stephen K. Bannon, the president's former chief strategist, backed away from calling Donald Trump Jr. "treasonous.
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In April, the Trump administration backed away from the tax, which was not included in Wednesday's blueprint.
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Though she accepted a couple of dates, there was no magic and she backed away from romance.
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While he rendered various lyrical turns and harmonic shifts eloquently, he backed away from stormy, dramatic episodes.
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Drejka pulled out a handgun, and as McGlockton backed away from him, shot him in the chest.
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Drejka pulled out a handgun and, as McGlockton backed away from him, shot him in the chest.
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"God, it's killing me," he said with his voice cracking as he backed away from the microphone.
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"Andrew Cuomo has never backed away from his progressive principles — not one single time," Mr. Biden said.
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His sons say they have also backed away from billions of dollars' worth of new foreign deals.
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In the end the government backed away from a complete ban, but it has imposed onerous restrictions.
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For instance, he has backed away from rules to lower the exorbitant rates for prison phone calls.
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In September, Mr. Trump promised to do so, but since then has backed away from that plan.
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As I backed away from him, he said, 'Everyone should have a kiss on New Year's Eve.
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He also proposed, then backed away from, a total ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.
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And the Trump administration backed away from its scary threat to impose tariffs on all goods from Mexico.
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He ultimately backed away from that, instead unveiling a series of proposals to "harden" schools and improve safety.
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But in recent years our governments have backed away from such transformational activity, in particular, the Federal government.
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Earlier, Mr Steyer had toyed with, then backed away from, plans to run for elected offices in California.
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Video FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX TRAVEL NEWS TSA has backed away from controversial plans before.
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Unfortunately, I am concerned that Congress has backed away from these commitments in recent years, leaving us unprepared.
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The clash reportedly began after Trump backed away from a public promise to look into background-check legislation.
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President Donald Trump has backed away from the Obama administration-negotiated baseball player deal with the Cuban government.
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Members backed away from the ethics reform idea almost immediately — within hours it was dropped, shelved and forgotten.
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The company has also backed away from a $20 million lawsuit it threatened against Daniels, the AP reported.
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Hours later, the president backed away from that endorsement, saying he could "never support bailing out" insurance companies.
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After widespread criticism from Republicans, Mr. Trump backed away from the idea of an immediate and full withdrawal.
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The Justice Department under Mr. Sessions has also backed away from its longstanding position to protect voting rights.
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In recent weeks the Trump administration has backed away from many of the president's most ambitious trade promises.
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Some Republicans who had been endorsed by the NRA backed away from the group in key suburban districts.
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The United States and Iran have backed away from the brink of further conflict in the Middle East.
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The United States and Iran backed away from further military hostilities after the killing of a Maj. Gen.
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For the time being, officials have backed away from endorsing any legislative effort or mandate on tech companies.
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Reagan also backed away from cuts to Social Security and Medicare when he faced a political backlash for trying.
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As a result, international firms and oil companies have backed away from billion-dollar deals with the Islamic republic.
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But Brazilian senior officials later backed away from the idea, for fear of damaging trade ties with Arab countries.
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Investors sold dollars because Fed Chair Janet Yellen backed away from her previously threatened four rate hikes during 25.33.
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They have charged that, in a move for political expediency, he has backed away from supporting Medicare for All.
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Tango made this theoretically possible, but Google has backed away from the idea of putting extra cameras in phones.
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Police have backed away from the claim since, saying only that the initial attempt to fingerprint him had failed.
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The dollar was steady on the yen at 110.50, having backed away from a two-month top of 111.12.
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The dollar was steady on the yen at 110.53 , having backed away from a two-month top of 111.12.
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The dollar was steady on the yen at 110.57, having backed away from a two-month top of 111.12.
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The dollar was steady on the yen at 110.53, having backed away from a two-month top of 111.12.
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But like President Barack Obama, Trump as president has so far backed away from slapping that label on China.
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President Trump floated the idea as a candidate, but his administration has since backed away from such a tax.
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All the writers speak about being backed away from at parties, as if they are somehow tainted by death.
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With little or no opportunities to earn returns on investments, companies have backed away from antibiotic research and development.
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Several candidates Bannon has backed or met with about running in GOP primary elections have backed away from him.
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The Fed already had backed away from its December projection that it would raise rates four times this year.
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Brian Calley, because Mr. Calley backed away from Mr. Trump after the "Access Hollywood" tape came out in 2016.
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Mr. Harris has denied wrongdoing, and party officials have not publicly backed away from their support of his candidacy.
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It has also backed away from imposing sanctions on officials believed to be involved in the crackdown in Xinjiang.
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The dollar was steady against the yen at 110.58, having backed away from a two-month top of 111.12.
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She later backed away from Terravera to focus on her volunteer work tutoring underprivileged students in East Palo Alto.
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Mr. Trump announced, then backed away from, a potential cybersecurity initiative with Moscow, a shift that prompted bipartisan derision.
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Officials had warned earlier of a physical blockade, but the governor's office later backed away from that, Reuters said.
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President Trump has backed away from plans to ban most flavored e-cigarettes, the Washington Post first reported Sunday.
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One last note: Amazon spent time trying to build a pay TV service, then backed away from the idea.
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The Trump administration backed away from a proposal to create a new body to scrutinise Chinese investment in American technology.
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The carrier later backed away from the offer and is now transforming it into the ultimate frequent flier point spend.
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Perhaps injured, 2856 backed away from other, larger, dominant bears, rather than challenging them for the most fruitful fishing positions.
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Many Democrats were against the TPP and though many Republicans initially supported it, some backed away from it over time.
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For now positioning data and options market pricing suggests hedge funds have backed away from plays on more sterling weakness.
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But ABC backed away from naming names, and Palfrey accused the network of bowing to government pressure by withholding them.
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Just today he wrongly backed away from his commitment to move America's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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"The one topic I've never backed away from speaking openly about is the importance of diversity and inclusion," Copeland wrote.
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But the president has backed away from some of the most pro-Israel positions he adopted on the campaign trail.
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"Not in the least," Mr. Ryan said when asked if he had backed away from his promise to maintain order.
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After all, days earlier, Trump had backed away from calling NATO "obsolete", as he had done during his election campaign.
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He has been largely impervious to attacks, once Mr. Cruz backed away from his monthslong embrace and began hammering him.
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European governments have also backed away from previous commitments to join forces over procurement to protect their own weapons industries.
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He also backed away from some of the allegations in the letter, much of which was redacted from public view.
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The Fed has repeatedly backed away from planned increases when the economic data has taken a turn for the worse.
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The FPO, founded in the 1950s by former Nazis, has backed away from calling for a vote on EU membership.
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After Watergate, national candidates backed away from the "law and order" slogan, wary of too close an association with Nixon.
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But Natalie said that her reporting during the meeting found that Mr. Garneau has since backed away from that position.
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Tehran retaliated by attacking U.S. targets in Iraq, but both sides now appear to have backed away from military actions.
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Kennedy backed away from the absurd Trumpworld fantasy that has claimed the minds of so many of his Republican colleagues.
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He also backed away from his pledge to erase the more than $19 trillion in U.S. debt in eight years.
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Even after Manafort pleaded guilty and admitted to his crimes in September, he "backed away from the facts," Jackson said.
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Presidents in recent decades also have sometimes backed away from replacing the Fed's leadership, because transitions can roil financial markets.
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In response, the United States launched a series of cyberattacks, but Mr. Trump backed away from a larger military airstrike.
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Ms. Warren said as much in her book, although she has since backed away from such a politically explosive suggestion.
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But it backed away from that policy after a surge in those requesting the documents and amid criticism from Washington.
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You could imagine a scenario in which the bill again grew less popular after House Republicans backed away from repeal.
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Two and five-year bond yields also backed away from this week's record lows and were 1-2 basis points higher.
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In a separate case, Huawei has backed away from another executive who was arrested last week on spying charges in Poland.
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American backed away from that in September, which brought its product more in line with that of rival Delta Air Lines.
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Months later, Trump and Kim backed away from brinkmanship and met face-to-face in Singapore for an unprecedented diplomatic meeting.
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Many Democrats and budget watchers say they're surprised at how quickly Republicans have backed away from making deficit reduction a priority.
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He has backed away from proposals for radical changes to insurance and the national health system that critics likened to privatisation.
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It has backed away from reforming inheritance laws to make them fairer to women, and from cracking down on child marriage.
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" In the end, he backed away from an approach to net neutrality that might have allowed so-called "online fast lanes.
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U.S. yields backed away from their earlier lows on the soft 10-year auction and Wall Street paring its initial losses.
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President Donald Trump may have backed away from a critical promise to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Democratic former New York Rep.
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"So I am thrilled that the Fed has backed away from its earlier plans to keep raising interest rates, " he said.
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In the past, the AU has often talked tough but backed away from any action that might lead to further conflict.
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After that call, Pruitt backed away from a plan to reduce how much biofuel — mostly corn ethanol — is required in gasoline.
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Knowing that OWL is eventually going to swamp them, a lot of organizers and esports organizations have backed-away from Overwatch.
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Investors have backed away from stocks throughout October amid fears of rising interest rates, moderating corporate profits and rising trade tensions.
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He expressed confidence in his legal standing, but later backed away from the proposal and said Congress should address the issue.
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McGlockton's girlfriend said it was the other way around, adding that her boyfriend backed away from Drejka after he pushed him.
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Android Wear: Google hasn't backed away from its wearable platform, and there are four sessions on it at I/O 2016.
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" The company's chief executive, Joe Kaeser, later backed away from that, saying Brexit "will not diminish our commitment to your country.
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It was a speech for his base, which has become increasingly restless as Trump has backed away from key campaign promises.
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Investigators have not backed away from their earlier assessment, which CNN has previously reported, that there is no evidence that Sgt.
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The S&P 500 pared some losses as yields backed away from their intraday peaks and investors digested the China report.
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But after Lewandowski's June firing, the publisher backed away from the deal amid concerns about Lewandowski's nondisclosure agreement, as POLITICO revealed.
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Tehran retaliated by attacking U.S. targets in Iraq, but both countries now appear to have backed away from further military actions.
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One reason Paul Ryan backed away from what he called a "clear path" to repealing ObamaCare was that moderates like Rep.
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Stocks climbed on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq composite hitting a record, after President Trump backed away from further confrontation with Iran.
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While he was supposed to be the GOP's bridge to the Latino community, he backed away from his own immigration bill.
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He later backed away from claiming the identity, but it cemented his image as a kind of sexually gender-fluid outsider.
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President Trump has recently backed away from plans to ban most flavored e-cigarettes, the Washington Post first reported last week.
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Elliott Management has backed away from its potential $160 per share bid for Athenahealth (ATHN), according to the New York Post.
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Athenahealth — Elliott Management has backed away from its potential $160 per share bid for Athenahealth, according to the New York Post.
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But the seaman's manslaughter counts were thrown out by the courts, and government prosecutors late last year backed away from the rest.
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But the limits of personal friendship were tested this spring when China backed away from verbal commitments in a nascent trade agreement.
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The United States and other Western governments that previously called for the president's early departure have quietly backed away from that demand.
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The president's declaration followed a tweet a few minutes earlier, which proclaimed why Trump believes China backed away from the negotiating table.
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But Dunford backed away from answering some of the most pressing questions about the engagement, saying the answers await a full investigation.
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Perhaps this is because Mr Trump has backed away from some of his pre-election threats—on trade with China, for example.
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At a Labor Day gathering of political scientists in Philadelphia, where both men presented their findings, Abramowitz immediately backed away from his.
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The SEC backed away from a stiffer charge of securities fraud that would barred him from holding office at a public company.
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Over the course of my conversations with Nadler, he backed away from the notion that Kensho will destroy jobs at Goldman itself.
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He recently appeared to have backed away from that stance, but on Monday he laid out the case for a full sale.
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The euro eased 0.1 percent to $1.1200, having backed away from a 6-1/2 month high of $1.1268 set this week.
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Pre-insolvency proceedings were triggered in Spain in November when a key investor backed away from a plan to inject new cash.
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He pledged to resign after six months if he had not fixed the drug problem, but later backed away from that promise.
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Since the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear pact and imposed economic sanctions, Iran has steadily backed away from the agreement.
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The president was spared one element that would have added greatly to the awkwardness: Vice President Biden backed away from the race.
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And as a husband, he was accused of rape by his first wife, Ivana, though she later backed away from that claim.
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Officials backed away from those plans after financial conditions tightened in January because of concerns about the health of the global economy.
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Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway was asked on Thursday if the president-elect has backed away from the idea of a Muslim registry.
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C.K. confirmed the stories on Friday, as the television networks and movie distributors he was in business with backed away from him.
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According to Clarke, ISIS propagandists are doubling down in part because they've never really backed away from a claim of responsibility before.
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One man was pulled off the wall and arrested as others were surrounded by fellow protesters and backed away from the confrontation.
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I backed away from the marble-topped table and left the bright, well-appointed family meeting room on the hospital's top floor.
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After invoking her gender without being prompted, she quickly backed away from what could be seen as making any claim of misogyny.
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But he has since backed away from that position, arguing the problem is not firearms, but rather mental health and violent entertainment.
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In 1994, then-President Bill Clinton "strongly considered" such a strike but ultimately backed away from it, signing a negotiated deal instead.
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Trump had backed away from her original promise to combat cyberbullying after the criticism leveled at Mr. Trump for his online insults.
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In late 2018, after a nearly 20 percent tumble in stocks, the Fed backed away from its plan to continue raising rates.
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In late 2018, after a nearly 20 percent tumble in stocks, the Fed backed away from its plan to continue raising rates.
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The Dutch board backed away from plans to publish it, according to Dr. Dekker and another person with knowledge of its handling.
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The White House has backed away from the allegations, but they add up to yet another issue complicating Mr. Coats's new job.
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Although the new Governor, Tony Evers, has been critical of the package, he has not backed away from the promises it made.
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But in both of those cases, he later met with National Rifle Association officials and backed away from any major legislative proposals.
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Trump promised to be "neutral" on Israel-Palestine — although he later backed away from that stance — and to enforce the Iran deal.
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However, Yahoo News reported on Thursday that the United States had launched cyber attacks, even as Trump backed away from a conventional attack.
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Biden, of course, has backed away from aspects of the 1994 crime bill, which he spearheaded as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Even while insisting that free expression is an ideological priority, the company has backed away from the full-throated defense of free speech.
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The ousted president backed away from a pro-European pact, a move that was widely viewed by protesters as bending to Russia's demands.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk backed away from the company's vague plans to build an all-electric bus during a call with investors today.
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But its biggest platform partner, Twitter, has backed away from commerce, raising questions about whether Stripe can find another anchor partner for Relay.
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Scott then exited the vehicle with the gun and backed away from his car while continuing to ignore commands to drop his gun.
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And conservative radio host Laura Ingraham is said to have pressed Trump on why he backed away from labeling China a currency manipulator.
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Mrs Clinton has herself backed away from her previous support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade deal negotiated by Barack Obama.
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Bowing to off-stage pressure from Republican bigwigs, he backed away from his earlier, unconstitutional talk of banning Muslims from entry to America.
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Then-candidate Donald Trump had threatened to brand China as a currency manipulator, but his administration has since backed away from that label.
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A handful of more conservative lawmakers have backed away from the GOP bill being pushed by House leadership, arguing that it's not enough.
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But after a rise in a consumption tax in 2014 tipped Japan into recession, he has backed away from raising the tax again.
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The White House backed away from the idea on Thursday, but the Senate proceeded to approve a resolution warning Trump against it anyway.
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But the White House backed away from that plan earlier this week after the Kremlin did not immediately accept its invitation to Putin.
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Earlier this month, the FBI backed away from a controversial case against the tech giant that highlights the so-called "going dark" debate.
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But in the past week, as stocks made small gains, the Dow backed away from the big milestone after edging within 83 points.
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However, after meeting Fico, the party's leadership said it would consider talks with Di Maio if he publicly backed away from the League.
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The Boston Public Schools system voted to change its start times in late 2017 but backed away from that switch after facing criticism.
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The game-maker Zynga, for example, faced a dramatic loss of revenue after Facebook backed away from a close relationship with the company.
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Officials then backed away from the new government after popular anger rose against the coup and countries in the region loudly denounced it.
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But even if Italy's government backed away from its policies, the country's problems — a high debt load and a sluggish economy – would remain.
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But it also backed away from its plan to use the buildings for quarantine, saying that it would use government-owned sites first.
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While the US backed away from the plan and Tillerson said it had been "misportrayed, misdescribed," tensions escalated as Turkey moved into Afrin.
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Within 24 hours, Mr Trump had publicly backed away from his threat to start a trade war between the world's two largest economies.
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Companies such as Buzzfeed and Vice have backed away from IPOs as they've tried to restart a growth story for potential public investors.
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While the U.S. has backed away from prosecuting torture, Guatemala has appointed special prosecutors and high-risk tribunals to try human rights cases.
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"He really backed away from it," recalled Mr. Durbin, an influential Democratic voice on judicial issues with long service on the Judiciary Committee.
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Still, Auriemma has not backed away from his preseason prediction that at some point, this team will lose, a Joe Namath in reverse.
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Crime fell even as New York backed away from old tough-on-crime policies, sharply reducing the population of its prisons and jails.
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Others, like Saudi Arabia, had signaled interest in advancing a peace deal, but have since backed away from visible engagement since Trump's announcement.
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Under pressure from his own party and advisers, the president has backed away from declaring a national emergency to pay for the wall.
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Jordanian officials initially believed his account — angering their American counterparts — but later backed away from it, and charged Sergeant Tawayha with premeditated murder.
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He backed away from the attempt and waited for more than a minute while the players on an adjacent fairway hit their shots.
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Though he initially supported Medicare for All — which would provide public health care to every American — O'Rourke has backed away from the idea.
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Facebook ultimately backed away from this idea, although it remains to be seen what tech companies could do with financial data behind the scenes.
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"And by the way, Andrew Cuomo has never backed away from his progressive principles," Joe Biden told the crowd in a lengthy endorsement speech.
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In some cases, this pushed scientists to lobby harder and speak up louder, but in many other instances, scientists backed away from political engagement.
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Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has backed away from NAFTA, which she publicly supported as first lady when it was signed by President Bill Clinton.
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He backed away from the comments a day later, telling reporters that Trump has some supporters "connected" with the KKK who are "claiming him."
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The response was immediate, as Whelan's would-be allies (including on the Senate Judiciary Committee) either backed away from him or condemned his tweetstorm.
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Even as banks dial up the heat on smaller competitors through their advantages of scale, they haven't backed away from investing in start-ups.
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MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) - French tycoon Vincent Bollore has backed away from a deal to buy the pay-TV business of Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset (MS.
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Washington (CNN)Former New York City mayor and top Donald Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani on Saturday criticized Republicans who backed away from Donald Trump.
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After those talks, Trump said he believed Putin's denials Russia had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election - remarks Trump later backed away from.
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When Wall Street learned that both Google and Salesforce appeared to have backed away from Twitter talks, the stock dropped 20 percent on Thursday.
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As Jeet Heer wrote yesterday, the Trump campaign quickly backed away from its commitment to full transparency for reasons that still aren't entirely clear.
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The situation became more dire last year when rival Icelandair, which looked to be a savior for Wow, backed away from a takeover offer.
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All four players showed their evident disgust, Stenson backed away from his putt while Rose walked towards the crowd with a face like thunder.
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Yet Donald Trump has neither apologized for nor backed away from anything he's said — and nevertheless he gets a free ride from the media.
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Indeed, going through that list from five years ago, I had expected to find a bunch of people who had backed away from investing.
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Trump also appeared to endorse universal background checks at a bipartisan summit on gun violence in February and then backed away from the idea.
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And while the rest of the bus riders backed away from the man, one woman stood up and decided to show him some compassion.
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Greg Abbott backed away from supporting a "bathroom bill," as the proposals are known, even though he had pushed for one the previous year.
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The Obama administration pushed open-border policies, backed away from securing the border and pushed sanctuary city policies that have made us less safe.
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The Trump administration in recent months backed away from the federal government's role in Gateway, withdrawing last summer from the program's board of trustees.
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Helping bullion's advance, the dollar backed away from a two-month high hit last week on rising optimism for a U.S.-China trade deal.
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Visa and Mastercard are among the members of the group who have backed away from publicly supporting Libra, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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In what appeared to be a deja vu scenario, Trump backed away from supporting background checks after a series of meetings with NRA officials.
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The White House on Wednesday backed away from a high profile promise made last month to single out China for a new investment ban.
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While he backed away from the policy of family separation, he is seeking congressional authority to detain entire families for longer than 20 days.
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Ever sensitive to criticism, Trump backed away from the idea of a joint cybersecurity task force with Russia — after hyping the idea hours earlier.
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So Microsoft concluded they didn't fit well with its business model and backed away from all but a few major titles such as Encarta.
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" Jennifer Rubin, writer for The Washington Post's Right Turn blog _______ "All the Republicans who backed away from @realDonaldTrump look really really stupid right now.
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On the back nine Sunday, McIlroy backed away from a putt on the 11th hole because of a "Tiger" chant that rocked the course.
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A senior Trump administration official said before the G20 summit that optimism would be tempered after China suddenly backed away from commitments in May.
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It has also backed away from imposing economic sanctions on Chinese officials believed to be involved in the repression of Muslims in the northwest.
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In the recent Florida case, Mr. McGlockton, who was black, backed away from Mr. Drejka, who is white, after pushing him to the ground.
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But, Mr. Zelizer noted, Mr. Reagan backed away from the speech and Mr. Bush distanced himself from the ad when each man faced criticism.
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Investors have backed away from some of the key sectors that would seemed to have benefited from President Donald Trump's aggressive pro-business agenda.
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Under questioning at the December deposition, Trump backed away from the claim of fraud by the education industry, suggesting he'd taken some literary license.
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Since taking office, the Trump administration has backed away from the federal government's involvement in the project, withdrawing from the program's board last summer.
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President Trump, who said in September that restrictions on flavors, including mint and menthol, would be imposed, has since backed away from that option.
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In his career as a US Senator, Sanders has backed away from such ardent calls for nationalization, but maintained similar rhetoric on wealth inequality.
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After the allegations about Coe came to light, Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel backed away from having Coe and Vines as guests on his show.
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Clinton had supported NAFTA as first lady, and served as Obama's top diplomat during TPP negotiations, though she has since backed away from both policies.
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By 2015, Mr. Obama's administration had backed away from support for a new law, saying the president preferred to seek cooperation with Silicon Valley instead.
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Trump said he backed away from the planned strikes after learning that about 150 people would be killed, but he said the military option remained.
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But as governor, Pence struggled in the shadow of Mitch Daniels, his predecessor who backed away from a presidential campaign of his own in 2014.
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Over time, though, those companies backed away from their ambitions, resulting in business losses for Omnifone that it never managed to offset with other activities.
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The White House last year backed away from pursuing legislation that would require U.S. technology firms to provide a "back door" to access encrypted data.
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Bloomberg reported earlier this month that entertainment giant Disney backed away from a possible acquisition of Twitter because of concerns about abuse on the platform.
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And during the caucuses and primaries he has dug in even further, including on immigration, where he has backed away from any sense of moderation.
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Recode has published multiple reports saying that many of the companies that were looking at Twitter for a potential acquisition backed away from the deal.
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Conway backed away from the possibility of creating a "deportation force" to evict millions of undocumented residents from the country, something Trump proposed in November.
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Fitbit's stock had a rough go of it, and Intel seems to have backed away from some of its more bullish ambitions in the space.
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But it's hard to see how that fits into promoting Witness, especially since she seemingly backed away from the "purposeful pop" that she initially promised.
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Trump co-opted the term so completely that even media which had embraced the phrase like The Washington Post has backed away from using it.
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But it backed away from mandatory requirements because of the industry's resistance and instead, in 2013, issued voluntary labeling standards, which few companies have followed.
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When North Korea backed away from the promise of denuclearization, even using harsh language to criticize administration officials, Trump was right to pull the plug.
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Trump on Friday also backed away from that tough goal, saying "it doesn't matter" to him if Congress votes in the coming week on healthcare.
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GOP senators also backed away from challenging Trump over his trade agenda, which has sparked strong criticism from farm-state Republicans in recent months. Sen.
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Trade talks stalled in May after China backed away from commitments it had made to secure legal changes to its system, according to U.S. officials.
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But the policy that Trump has appeared to backed away from put the spotlight on U.S. airlines, which are regularly contracted by the U.S. government.
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The Trump administration has backed away from a proposed regulation that would have allowed restaurant owners and managers to pocket the tips of their workers.
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Alexander said on Wednesday that Trump had "completely engineered" the bipartisan proposal, but the president backed away from support he had expressed a day earlier.
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Global markets rose Monday after the Trump administration, at least for the time being, backed away from its threat to impose tariffs on Chinese imports.
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But Mr. Trump already has backed away from one threat to abandon Nafta after strong opposition from business interests and members of his own party.
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And now Democrats are pushing for the release of the transcripts, something Conaway once said he was open to but has since backed away from.
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Ryan on Sunday backed away from Trump's promise during the campaign of a "deportation force" to round up and deport immigrants in the country illegally.
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Although President Trump promised to do so in September, he has since backed away from that plan, flummoxing public health lobbyists and industry executives alike.
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"The government has certainly not backed away from its commitments but it's not a top priority," said one aid worker who declined to be named.
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While Saudi Arabia issued a forceful statement threatening retaliation against sanctions over the weekend, it has since "more than backed away" from that posturing, said Kilduff.
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He told an Israeli newspaper that settlements "don't help the peace process" and, for now, seems to have backed away from moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
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Responding to those concerns Matteo Salvini, Italy's populist deputy prime minister, backed away from previous comments and reassured markets that Italy would respect those deficit limits.
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The losing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party backed away from pressing their claim that the election had been rigged by security officials.
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" Many other Republicans backed away from Trump's word choice, saying that while they agreed with the sentiment, they disagreed with the usage of the term "lynching.
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Shares of online lenders have been pounded after business lender On Deck Capital reported disappointing earnings and analysts backed away from the stock, citing growth concerns.
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Meanwhile, Rob backed away from the spotlight, refusing to attend Kim's wedding and reportedly feuding with his family and dealing with his own mental health issues.
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Screen launched in 2013 as a place to house Yahoo's original content, which the company has since backed away from (remember the $42 million write-down?).
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She tried to tell him that's not how it was, it wasn't like that, but he backed away from her, sat down, and started crying, too.
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If the FCC suddenly backed away from that mandate, it would face lawsuits from outside groups and more than a little scrutiny from the congressional committees.
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Goddard later backed away from some of his work, but not before coining a term that became another catchall: "moron," from the Greek word for dull.
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In a shift on Sunday, however, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee backed away from his own group's fear-mongering about the race's outcome.
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Under Trump, the United States has also backed away from a pledge to double research and development spending on energy technology to $6.4 billion by 2021.
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Congressional Republicans, in turn, have backed away from earlier promises to legally protect the so-called "Dreamers," young people brought to the country illegally as children.
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Both later backed away from those promises, convinced by Middle East experts that doing so would prejudge negotiations for a final settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Not to mention, Trump's willingness to accept foreign assistance in his re-election campaign without informing the FBI, which he has since partly backed away from.
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And the company still hasn't backed away from previous estimates that it would deliver about 80,000 cars by the end of 2016 (and 100,000 next year).
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He responded positively to my request for his aid, but when the paladin found out that I am a demonology warlock, he backed away from me.
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The Trump administration has not backed away from his campaign stance, but there are questions about how aggressively the president will push for a new law.
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In essence, Mr. Davis has admitted he was an unnamed source for the article, and has backed away from the claims he made about Mr. Cohen.
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The rebound in June is a repeat of a situation in January, when the central bank backed away from its plans to keep raising interest rates.
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While other Democrats have backed away from the bill, Mr. Biden has defended it with statements that lack a full account of its history and impact.
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As president, he has backed away from that proposal, saying he wants to give private plans more tools to negotiate, under new federal rules and requirements.
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Stokes and others who maintained a long-lasting grip in the black wards and precincts either died or backed away from public life in recent years.
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Faced with this threat, which according to one Baghdad official "would mean collapse for Iraq," Iraqis have backed away from their call to banish U.S. troops.
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Gib reportedly yelled "you&aposre scared" when Jake backed away from the stage, then told him he couldn&apost "run no more" in a subsequent interview.
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But before she dropped out of the race in August, the New York senator also backed away from the legislation, citing concerns about eliminating private insurance.
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ICE was considering launching a swap contract linked to Ether, but backed away from that because of regulatory uncertainty, the people briefed on the effort said.
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But the president then backed away from his position, saying that sufficient background checks were in place and the focus should instead be on mental health.
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The company has now backed away from the deal and is expected to repay lenders their allocated portions, three sources with knowledge of the deal said.
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He is a blazing technical rapper and a relentless searcher, and as he has become more famous and successful, he hasn't backed away from those traits.
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But last fall, the White House backed away from any of these solutions, saying it would not seek any legislation or mandate for the time being.
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On Monday evening, the New York Post reported that Paul Singer's activist firm, Elliott Management, had backed away from its $160-a-share bid for Athena.
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Retailers including Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and T.J. Maxx have backed away from products connected to Ms. Trump, the president's oldest daughter, since Ms. Coulter's efforts began.
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In a move that contradicted nearly three decades of military planning, the Trump administration in December backed away from calling climate change a national security threat.
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But the president then backed away from his position, saying that sufficient background checks were in place and the focus should instead be on mental health.
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Mr. Rubio, who once worked with Democrats on comprehensive immigration reform legislation reform, has backed away from that idea and now wants to focus on border security.
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Richardson said they have not backed away from those commitments, and the White House has little influence on state and local rules for solar and wind projects.
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The Post said Flynn on Wednesday denied that he had discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador, but on Thursday backed away from the denial through a spokesman.
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Sessions also defended Trump, noting that he has backed away from his calls for an outright Muslim ban, instead aiming that ban at countries with terrorist activity.
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In October conservative politicians in Poland, where abortion is available only in rare circumstances, backed away from a plan to ban it entirely, following large street protests.
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And Downing Street has repeatedly backed away from Mr Johnson's statements: from the case for a new royal yacht to that for expanding military intervention in Syria.
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The White House has since backed away from this explanation since it seems like an egregious abuse of power and arguably a kind of obstruction of justice.
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Three months later, Carney wrote, attorneys for the US backed away from their claim that a new agreement existed that would allow the deportations to go through.
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Musk admitted he had been talking about the plan with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, but then backed away from the idea and kept the company public.
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In those comments, Clinton said she supports open trade and open borders, and takes a conciliatory approach to Wall Street, both positions she later backed away from.
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Fellow TV makers Sony and Samsung have backed away from OLED because of manufacturing challenges, while LG committed $8.7 billion to a new OLED factory last year.
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Since 2009, Alvarez's office has been accused of multiple cover-ups—clearing killer cops at least 68 times—and the Democratic party has backed away from her.
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Last fall, the White House quietly backed away from those proposals, spurring criticism from both sides that the administration was being vague and evasive on the issue.
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Twitter users, for instance, have backed away from that platform because of abusive trolling, threatening posts and hate speech, which the company hasn't been able to control.
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She has appointed a new military chief and cabinet members, while MAS lawmakers seemed to have backed away from plans to try to nullify her interim appointment.
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These new financial technology companies have made serious competitive inroads in areas banks have backed away from, and billions of dollars in venture capital money has followed.
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In October, the union reportedly backed away from a planned Clinton endorsement because internal polling showed its rank and file didn't support the former secretary of State.
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Though some owners were sympathetic to his stance, many of them backed away from supporting him when he threatened to sue the members of the compensation committee.
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But financial institutions, including Bank of America and the Royal Bank of Scotland, backed away from loans to the company, according to news reports at the time.
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That came after Turkey - citing the latest fighting in Syria - backed away from a 2016 deal with the EU to keep refugees and migrants away from Europe.
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Last week, Trump seemingly backed away from a proposed waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, which has been controversial ever since it was proposed in 1987.
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With Gordon Sondland prepared to testify this week, Republicans backed away from complaints about secondhand information and instead offered a blunter defense: The president did nothing wrong.
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But that hope dwindled when the United States backed away from military action after Mr. Assad crossed Mr. Obama's "red line" against the use of chemical weapons.
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The Times reported in late January that Trump once sought to have McGahn fire Mueller, but ultimately backed away from that demand after McGahn threatened to quit.
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In June, he threatened Iran with "obliteration" after it shot down an unmanned American drone, and then backed away from a planned retaliation at the last minute.
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It's Tuesday evening here in Washington where Senate Republicans quickly backed away from a proposal to restrict media access in the Capitol after a backlash from reporters.
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" In an op-ed published in a local Kauai newspaper Friday, Zuckerberg backed away from that plan and called the decision to file these lawsuits "a mistake.
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But since taking office, he hasn't backed away from Operation Atlantic Resolve, which represents the largest military buildup in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
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At the time, Microsoft said it wanted to push users towards a digital-only games marketplace but it backed away from the draconian DRM after backlash from fans.
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Facebook, which will never admit that it's a media company, has backed away from curating breaking news after its own editorial decisions got the company into hot water.
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The defensive way she addressed critical questions about her maternity plan in a tense interview, and then backed away from the media because of it, gives us pause.
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Go deeper: How the anti-Saudi movement snowballed The unraveling of Saudi Arabia's "Davos in the Desert" The companies who have backed away from Saudi business over Khashoggi
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In September, it backed away from a widely expected rate rise — sparking steep falls on Wall Street and other markets — citing China's mini currency devaluation a month before.
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While Trump has backed away from taking children away from their parents, it is not clear how his administration will handle immigration cases on the border going forward.
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Trump has backed away from a campaign promise to relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a key Israeli wish, sparking rare criticism from Israeli lawmakers.
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Sure, he could have backed away from Clinton but the area close to the chair and lectern is his space and he has every right to be there.
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Trump publicly backed away from a trillion-dollar tax cut aimed at small businesses in order to optimistically claim that his tax plan won't add to the debt.
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" But he backed away from saying to what extent he believed humans were responsible, adding that it "also depends on how much it's going to cost our companies.
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Trump threatened last week to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement – the deal between the U.S., Canada and Mexico – but ultimately backed away from that position.
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The president faulted his predecessor for helping create the conditions for the attack when he backed away from his 2012 "red line" on Assad's use of chemical weapons.
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The tall, swift youngster, his hands carelessly low, backed away from Liston's jabs, circled around Liston's dangerous left hook and opened a nasty gash under Liston's left eye.
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His congressional office backed away from his earlier claims to have "put terrorists in prison," after evidence could not be presented that he ever actually prosecuted a terrorist.
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Meadows said on Wednesday that conservatives have "minimal" leverage in the discussions over the funding for Gateway, which the Trump administration has backed away from in recent months.
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Unlike Mr. Ryan, other Republican leaders have backed away from Mr. Trump as a candidate gone amok, notably Mitt Romney, the presidential candidate who campaigned alongside Mr. Ryan.
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Trump said last week in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that the dollar was "getting too strong", and backed away from labelling China a currency manipulator.
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The president has described the official as a partisan operative and called on news outlets to name them but has so far backed away from doing so himself.
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Most voters rejected one policy proposal Mr. Trump vowed to pursue from the beginning and never backed away from: building a wall on the southern border with Mexico.
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The Trump administration has backed away from the federal government's involvement in the project, arguing New York and New Jersey should contribute more money to the rebuilding effort.
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IRS PULLS CONTROVERSIAL RULE: The Internal Revenue Service backed away from a proposed, reviled regulation that would have pressured non-profits to share their donors' Social Security numbers.
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Commissioner Roger Goodell backed away from his stance that the players had a right to express their opinions, though legal scholars say showing solidarity is a legal right.
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Advertisers have backed away from Carlson's show even as Fox News stands behind him, and debate has ensued over Carlton's worthiness to serve as a national political commentator.
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Though Clyburn made remarks on Saturday that questioned the campaign's organization and fundraising efforts, he later backed away from them and will campaign in North Carolina for Biden.
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And, unlike last summer when Trump reluctantly backed away from his plan to fire Mueller, the President is surrounded by far fewer people he trusts or listens to.
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After interventions by Congress and the Supreme Court, the Bush administration backed away from most of its extreme measures and transferred C.I.A. detainees to the prison at Guantánamo.
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President Trump is still digging in on his demand for money for a wall at the southern border, though he has backed away from declaring a national emergency.
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Mark Warner, who had supported concealed carry reciprocity in 22018, backed away from the same legislation, effectively killing the bill since regular legislation needs 20143 votes to pass.
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Whatever one makes of that as a question of demographics, it doesn't make sense as a piece of political rhetoric, which is why Clinton backed away from it.
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SEATTLE — A day after saying that Amazon plans to open hundreds of physical bookstores, the chief executive of a large shopping mall operator has backed away from the comments.
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Kjellberg later made several other jokes about "Subscribe to PewDiePie," in a mostly facetious way, but many other creators backed away from it altogether in wake of the tragedy.
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And he backed away from his proclamation Monday that he would "absolutely" support Clinton if she won the election in November, "We're going to have to see," Trump said.
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Anderson Cooper, who moderated the event, asked about the flap and the presidential candidate quickly backed away from the public disagreement, saying he doesn't like fighting with the pope. .
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Moreover, Apple appears to have backed away from the car market, so the era of selling greater and greater numbers of physical products appears to be over — for now.
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Meanwhile, spot palladium further backed away from its all-time peak of 1,565.09 per ounce, scaled earlier in the week, and was down 0.1 percent at $1,527.50 on Thursday.
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That sort of thing scandalized many in O'Connor's time who had backed away from what grace really might mean for their way of life in a proper, segregated South.
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The U.S. dollar fell to a 15-month low against the yen as investors backed away from earlier expectations that the Federal Reserve would continue to raise interest rates.
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While the president earlier this week backed away from his veto threat, conservative lawmakers and right-wing pundits on cable news have pressured him to nix the funding measure.
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The sanctions have caused tumult in the aluminum industry, for example, as US companies have rapidly backed away from Russian-owned United Company Rusal, a large supplier of aluminum.
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After a number of prominent Republicans backed away from Trump following the release of the Access Hollywood tape, most of them returned to the fold when Trump's chances improved.
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By Monday, however, the official had backed away from that commitment and said the program's fate is uncertain until the administration produces a more detailed budget proposal in May.
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Obama ultimately backed away from more aggressive action against Assad in part because of the risks of the United States getting sucked deeper into yet another Middle East conflict.
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But the administration backed away from stiffer penalties earlier this month and said it would fine ZTE $1 billion and install a compliance team picked by the United States.
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She also said she was glad that he had "reversed his position on immunity," after Sanders backed away from a 2005 vote that gave gun manufacturers immunity from prosecution.
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Clinton has also backed away from her support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal that includes Japan and is awaiting ratification by the participating countries.
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Multiple outlets reported that China had abruptly backed away from huge chunks of a 150-page agreement in May, making changes and reneging on commitments throughout the entire document.
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In 5003 he backed away from an investigation of Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., both suspected of misleading potential buyers of condominiums in a Trump building in SoHo.
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SoftBank has recently backed away from investing in several start-ups, including home-care provider Honor, after submitting term sheets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Axios.
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Several companies backed away from doing business with Saudi Arabia in the immediate aftermath of Khashoggi's death, but as Axios' Dan Primack notes, there has been no fundamental change.
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Crude oil prices rose but backed away from multi-year highs on Wednesday after U.S. government data showed an increase in fuel inventories and a falloff in refining activity.
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Aides singled out the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service as targets for austerity — plans that the White House has not backed away from.
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Beyond his self-performance — he once told Playboy magazine that his yacht and golden towers were "props for the show" — Mr. Trump has never backed away from cultural divisiveness.
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More recently, Mr. Kushner backed away from a member of the transition team he had previously supported, when the man's work as a lobbyist for foreign governments attracted headlines.
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The investor, Matt Michelsen, confirmed the meeting to BuzzFeed, and said Facebook officials initially seemed open to the idea of an investigation, but later backed away from that approach.
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But in 2008, the academy backed away from the recommendation, said Dr. Scott H. Sicherer, a spokesman for the academy and one of the authors of the new guidelines.
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But while the incoming administration may have backed away from the questionnaire, the scepticism and hostility to the Department of Energy and its mission in some quarters remains very real.
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And, to be clear, the experience that Aetna describes of financial losses and sick consumers is similar to what happened to other insurers who have backed away from the law.
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His government has backed away from reforms in the past and may lose any sense of urgency when Zohr, a lucrative gasfield, starts production at the end of the year.
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Two and five-year bond yields also backed away from this week's record lows ahead of a four billion euro sale of five-year German bonds later in the day.
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Frank Momberg of the British conservation group Flora & Fauna International said his organization backed away from promoting the proposed parks three years ago, after consulting local organizations and the KNU.
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The government also considered and then backed away from imposing road-toll taxes, requiring foreigners working in Indonesia to pass a language test and banning some popular ride-sharing apps.
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Farage called on the U.K. prime minister to join a "leave alliance" and said his plan would work if Johnson's Conservative Party backed away from contesting the pro-Brexit vote.
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Pat McCrory of North Carolina backed away from elements of the law, but he stopped short of opposing limits on bathroom access and left other elements of the measure intact.
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Wicker and Cantwell began negotiating directly after the Washington Democrat earlier this year backed away from a larger Senate privacy working group, which includes other members on the Commerce Committee.
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While admitting Assad has no long-term future as head of state in Syria, Tillerson has not completely backed away from openness to negotiations that may include representatives of Assad.
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The French company, led by Vincent Bollore, backed away from the deal to give it full control of Mediaset Premium, part of Vivendi's plans to create a European media giant.
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Those of you who have supported and followed my career know that the one topic I've never backed away from speaking openly about is the importance of diversity and inclusion.
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After shutting down the government for three days, Democrats backed away from their promise to protect the Dreamers, voting to reopen the government with little to show for their efforts.
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When the White House did announce its proposal, it backed away from raising age limits on buying assault weapons, and instead renewed support for arming teachers and improving school safety.
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One major sign of trouble, he said, is that some customers in China have backed away from plans to ask Efficient Power to customize its chips to meet their specifications.
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Mr. Pun said Mr. Dahal, whose nom de guerre is Prachanda, or "the fierce one" in Nepali, has backed away from more revolutionary ideas in order to appeal to voters.
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At the hearing, Ms. Barrett backed away from that position, saying she could not think of any class of cases in which she would recuse herself because of her faith.
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When Jack Daniel's backed away from a pledge to recognize the Tennessee slave who had taught its founder to distill, a writer came to town and took up the cause.
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Trump's government failed to approve Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial's acquisition of MoneyGram, while AT&T reportedly backed away from a deal to sell phones made by Chinese electronics giant Huawei.
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He backed away from that new Egyptian government, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, and signaled with his silence that the U.S. would not move to block a military coup d'etat.
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The banks he works with have not backed away from the industry since Sessions' announcement, but he has seen others hoping to get into the business put plans on hold.
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They remember being excited by the promise of Obama's agenda and then disappointed by the compromises he made, the fights he backed away from, the deals he cut with industry.
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Some Democratic lawmakers grumbled privately that, once the party backed away from the impeachment inquiry, it would be only a matter of time before Republicans stepped forward to hold hearings.
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Moore was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, and the RNC subsequently backed away from supporting him, only to eventually come back to his side amid tensions with Trump.
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Last year, amid stiff private sector opposition, the White House backed away from pushing for legislation to require U.S. technology firms to provide investigators with mechanisms to overcome encryption protections.
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Since the election, Trump has backed away from claims that Mexico would pay for the wall, saying via Twitter that he would seek funding from Congress and collect from Mexico later.
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And she backed away from the idea of a registry of Muslim citizens in the US. The South Carolina governor took issue with Trump's recent comments about German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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"Our federal government unfortunately has completely backed away from all their commitments (on climate change) ... so the leadership on this front has to come from state and local government," she added.
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But after reviewers hammered Verizon for comically overstating 5G availability in these spotty early launches, Verizon backed away from imposing the surcharge for what it stated would be an "undetermined" period.
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Rubio eventually backed away from his work on the Gang of Eight bill, even attempting to argue during his 2016 presidential campaign that the bill was never meant to become law.
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Go deeper: The unraveling of Saudi Arabia's "Davos in the Desert" The companies who have backed away from Saudi business over Khashoggi Where Saudi Arabia fits in the global arms trade
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Beijing and Washington were close to a deal last spring but U.S. officials said China backed away from an agreed text over a reluctance to change laws to address U.S. complaints.
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The Times British Prime Minister Theresa May avoided a Commons defeat over her crucial Brexit bill on Wednesday after pro-European Tories backed away from a confrontation with the government. bit.
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On Thursday, Giuliani sought to clarify his statements, saying once again in a tweet that he had not backed away from his claims that the campaign did not collude with Russians.
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Last month, a top lawmaker on the Senate Commerce Committee backed away from a bipartisan panel that was seen as one serious effort to negotiate a privacy bill with broad support.
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VR film company Jaunt pivoted to augmented reality in October, Microsoft backed away from its promises to bring VR to the Xbox in June, camera maker Lytro shut down in March.
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Though Musk had expressed interest in pursuing a tunnel on the westside of LA, The Boring Company backed away from the project after a group of residents and community groups sued.
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Tesla also closed a dozen solar installation centers and backed away from a deal to sell its energy storage products at Home Depot as it focused resources on the Model 22019.
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But other high-profile Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, haven't backed away from their endorsements of Trump even as they blasted his comments.
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And while it seems to have backed away from making a large move to acquire Soundcloud, it has made smaller recent moves to build out its business model in other ways.
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MacArthur quickly backed away from the provision Wednesday, saying he doesn't believe that lawmakers and their staffs should get special treatment and is working with House leadership to make that clear.
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In the second, he left his UN ambassador to dangle while he backed away from a promise she made about Russia sanctions on national TV. Trump may, eventually, support the sanctions.
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The report found a number of instances in which influential health groups accepted beverage industry donations and then backed away from supporting soda taxes or remained noticeably silent about the initiatives.
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The company has a history of fumbling big acquisitions, including its disastrous acquisition of Nokia, which ended in a $7.6 billion write-off, after which Microsoft backed away from mobile phones.
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The New Jersey Republican lost a bid for reelection in 2016 after Wall Street donors backed away from his campaign over his reported refusal to support gay or lesbian Republican candidates.
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But once the media discovered the "abolish private insurance" framing, many candidates got skittish and backed away from the commitment in favor of some form of a public option plan instead.
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Mr. Musk was said to have backed away from a settlement, in part, because he was concerned that he could not later tell investors that he had not done anything wrong.
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In a speech on Monday, the secretary of health and human services dismissed those solutions, which Mr. Trump backed away from when he announced his plan on Friday, as quack remedies.
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Moreover, in the office's most recent brief, prosecutors backed away from Mr. Hynes's initial allegations, claiming that they had no proof that Mr. Scarcella did anything wrong in the Ranta case.
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House and Senate GOP leaders have already backed away from trying to defund Planned Parenthood or add a down payment for the U.S.-Mexico border wall in this month's spending bill.
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A CBS Sports reporter backed away from his claims that NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick told him that he would stand for the national anthem if signed to an NFL team.
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Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, on Monday backed away from an attempt to join a pending lawsuit concerning testimony in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
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But officials backed away from the plans after Iran signaled it would go no further than its missile attacks against U.S. targets in Iran, which were designed to not cause casualties.
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But he backed away from that position last year, rolling out his own plan allowing people to retain their private coverage instead of being forced into a single, government-run plan.
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He backed away from his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he misspoke when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.
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The threat of a U.S. government shutdown this weekend also receded after Trump backed away from demanding Congress include funding for his planned border wall with Mexico in a spending bill.
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In early September, the United States backed away from the prospect of a military campaign, and Hamada was returned to the terrorism court in Damascus, where his case was finally heard.
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Republicans initially backed away from Moore as the allegations surfaced, but in recent days, both elected officials and Alabama voters appear to have gotten over the whole accused-child-molester thing.
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Asked about this reversal, Cui turned the tables and said it was U.S. negotiators that had abruptly backed away from some previous deals that had been tentatively agreed over the past year.
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U.S. yields backed away from their earlier lows on the soft 10-year auction and Wall Street recovering from its initial losses in late trading, curbing the safe-haven bids for bonds.
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Trump's declaration that Beijing is looking to strike an agreement also followed an earlier tweet from the president, in which he claimed to know why China backed away from the negotiating table.
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Davis has backed away from the story in recent days, telling the Washington Post that he is not certain if the claim is accurate, and that he could not independently corroborate it.
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The company, apparently, is opting for the "we're a neutral platform" defense in the matter, despite the fact that most major platforms have backed away from this stance with regard to Jones.
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Republicans have backed away from those caps repeatedly in recent years because, when translated from numbers on a page to actual reductions in government services, they repel decision-makers of both parties.
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But ever since news broke about her April 2016 arrest for trespassing at ex-boyfriend Alexander "Nico" Fanjul's Palm Beach home, the 41-year-old blonde has backed away from the headlines.
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He has maintained relations with Qatar, which has been ostracised by other Gulf states, and backed away from the war in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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After first helping draft legislation, Mr. Rubio has since backed away from the bill amid backlash from his party's conservative base, citing concerns about first needing to secure the nation's southern border.
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While such ideas have offended some, his supporters see the fact that Mr. Trump has not backed away from his views, even when criticized, as evidence that he will fight for them.
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While his campaign slowly backed away from that pledge, one of Trump's first actions in the White House was to push a travel ban for seven - and eventually six - Muslim majority countries.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday backed away from U.S. President Donald Trump's comments a day earlier calling for the storm-hit island's debt to be wiped out.
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The senator has publicly backed away from staging a fight over the Democratic platform heading into Philadelphia, in part because many of his priorities — including the $15 minimum wage — have been included.
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A previous draft version of the measure — which the White House backed away from earlier this year — would have given "broad exemptions" to claim religious objections in various situations, according to Politico.
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The Trump administration had earlier backed away from a threat to end federal subsidies for low-income people to get health insurance through Obamacare, the program that Trump had pledged to repeal.
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But just hours after Trump took to Twitter, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders backed away from the tweets, saying the Trump administration wants to deal with health care separately next year.
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The Lega-5-Star coalition, which has backed away from a policy of leaving the euro while remaining ambiguous about the future, was in the end, with minimal adjustments, allowed to govern.
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That Cohen sought in 2011 to silence Daniels's allegations came as Trump was said to be considering a potential 2012 presidential bid, though he ultimately backed away from a run that year.
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At his confirmation hearing, Quarles backed away from his prior support for a rules-based approach to setting interest rates, bringing him more in line with the current approach of Fed officials.
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They took to the streets in 2014 to oust Yanukovych, who backed away from Europe and the West with his rejection of a deal with the European Union for greater economic integration.
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Trump caught Congress flat-footed when he backed away from a continuing resolution (CR) in December to fund a quarter of the government because it didn't include extra funding for a wall.
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Still, the writers backed away from a definitive finish after Rick went out in what appeared to be a blaze of glory, setting off an explosion on a bridge filled with walkers.
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You always have to check in on Gaga's fashion at the Grammys, just as a matter of course, although in recent years she's backed away from the elaborate and the avant garde.
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Now, after appearing to have backed away from India in a big way, the company looks to be near packing up its things and going home here in the US, as well.
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He's backed away from some of the nice things he's said about Putin, but I still get the sense that he would promote rapprochement there, that there would clearly be an initiative.
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WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers backed away from a plan to reinstate stiff penalties on Chinese telecom firm ZTE, handing a win to President Trump, who had personally intervened to save the Beijing company.
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The big picture: Spooked by a recent surge in destructive fires that shows no sign of cooling off, insurers have backed away from underwriting in the most flammable parts of the state.
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Editorial New York City's crime rate continues to plummet, even though the city has backed away from abusive policing strategies that the Police Department once viewed as essential to keeping people safe.
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He has said he is open to negotiating with Democrats on it, but has repeatedly backed away from potential deals that he argues do not include immigration changes that are tough enough.
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U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from days of angry rhetoric against Iran as the two countries tried to defuse a crisis over the American killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
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ISTANBUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The Turkish lira was firmer against the dollar early on Thursday as the United States and Iran backed away from further conflict, lowering tensions in the Middle East.
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The threat of a U.S. government shutdown this weekend also receded after Trump backed away from demanding that Congress include funding for his planned border wall with Mexico in a spending bill.
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Even Turkey, which is a longtime supporter of the opposition and is supposed to ensure rebel compliance with the cease-fire, has backed away from its demand that Mr. Assad step down.
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When insurance companies backed away from the unsure world of terrorism insurance after 85033/11, the government created the successful Terrorism Risk Insurance Program, a backstop to encourage entry into the market.
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" On Friday evening, after Clinton's comments drew considerable criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, Merrill backed away from the former secretary of state's allegation, tweeting, "She doesn't say the Russians are grooming anyone.
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Mrs Merkel later backed away from her remarks, which were designed for a local audience and had been interpreted by a commentariat determined to read disaster into everything Mr Trump touches (see article).
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Confidence in the government has waned in recent months after reform moves upset both the opposition and some supporters, who said Tsai had backed away from promises to reduce the deficit and pollution.
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The Wall Street Journal has a good catch on Democrats' promises during the 2018 midterms: they've quietly backed away from proposing free college, an idea that caught fire with progressive voters when Sen.
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At the outset, Loeb was pushing for a sale of the company but later backed away from that and more recently recommended splitting the company to make it more attractive to potential buyers.
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The United States has recently backed away from a pledge for free and open trade, calling for a review of some trade agreements and proposing in import duty tax, arguing for "fair" trade.
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The dreaded storm name appeared in some National Weather Service discussions in the past two days, but on Thursday, forecasts of coastal flooding from this storm backed away from such a fighting word.
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Why it matters: The plan is unlikely to work, but it might identify at least some GOP members who have backed away from a repeal-only plan based on their refusal to sign.
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After phone calls with both leaders the same evening the news of his planned executive order broke, Trump backed away from scrapping the treaty altogether, agreeing instead to renegotiate some of its provisions.
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Mr. Trump began the day with an interview with Fox Business Network in which he backed away from the so-called border-adjustment tax favored by Speaker Paul D. Ryan and House Republicans.
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Bernie Sanders backed away from a 2005 vote that gave gun manufacturers immunity from prosecution on Saturday night, announcing in a press release that he supports a proposed bill to amend that vote.
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Bolsonaro's original proposal angered the Muslim world, and senior Brazilian officials backed away from it for fear of damaging ties with Arab countries and jeopardizing billions of dollars in Brazilian halal meat exports.
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Mediaset, owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is suing Vivendi for damages after it backed away from an April deal to take full control of the Italian group's pay-TV unit Premium.
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Earlier this month, Sanders backed away from a 2005 vote that gave gun manufacturers immunity from prosecution, announcing in a press release that he supports a proposed bill that would amend that vote.
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But he has come under fire from conservative supporters of the wall in recent days, after he backed away from demands that Congress include funding for the wall in a government funding measure.
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In doing so, Wheeler backed away from an initial proposal to open up the market for television set-top boxes to third-party manufacturers that triggered a tireless lobbying campaign by industry opponents.
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The real estate mogul, who has previously called for a deportation force to remove the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally, backed away from the idea of swift mass deportations.
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Clinton wisely backed away from her misleading claim earlier this week that the relatively tiny number of guns that enter New York from Vermont play a serious role in the state's gun crimes.
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In a post on Twitter, Trump said Republicans needed Moore to win in order to secure votes on key issues such as immigration even as other Republicans have backed away from the candidate.
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WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders on Wednesday backed away from plans to vote on a gun measure that already faced broad Democratic opposition after their own conservative members said they would also reject it.
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Trump announced he will pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement and has backed away from U.S. pledges to double spending on clean energy research and development — both Obama initiatives.
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The opposition wants Assad removed from power at the start of a transitional period, a demand Western countries have backed away from as Russia's military intervention has reshaped the war in his favor.
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She also has rarely, if ever, backed away from anything she has said, unlike Justice Ginsburg, who in a statement on Friday said she had been "inappropriately dismissive and harsh" about Kaepernick's protest.
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Mr. Trump campaigned for president on the promise of allowing the government to negotiate drug prices, but then backed away from that position when he unveiled his first drug-price proposals last spring.
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BERLIN — What Google wants, Google usually gets, but in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood, residents have won a battle against the internet giant, which backed away from a project in the face of local opposition.
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Jimmy Kimmel held President Trump's feet to the fire on Tuesday after the president backed away from his comments in Helsinki, Finland, the day before on who had meddled in the 2016 election.
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By the end of Tuesday, nearly 300,000 people had signed it, and with Mr. Macron's popularity ebbing somewhat, the government backed away from proposing statutory changes and sought to calm the rising controversy.
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Now, two weeks after his tweet, Mr. de Blasio has yet to appoint a commission and he has backed away from quick pronouncements, like his vow to remove the Pétain plaque, which remains.
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The United States has now backed away from a proposal that would require half of the value of an automobile to be manufactured in the United States to qualify for Nafta's preferential tariffs.
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Charlie was harsh with our writing, but only because he believed so deeply in what writing could be — he got upset when it disappointed that potential and backed away from its difficult thresholds.
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But China suddenly backed away from measures that would require it to change its laws, and Mr. Trump accused Beijing of breaking the deal and moved ahead with raising tariffs on the country.
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But, facing the prospect of losing millions in crucial funding and of a showdown with the Oval Office, multiple jurisdictions have already backed away from sanctuary-style policies since Mr. Trump was elected.
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His is one of a handful of recent cases in which the government, amid an outcry over what opponents say are trumped-up charges, has backed away from harsh punishment of its critics.
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The Veterans Administration (VA) has also backed away from reliance on opioids to manage chronic pain syndrome and is now actively promoting comprehensive care that includes acupuncture, yoga, mindfulness meditation and physical therapy.
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The vote presents a challenge to President Tsai Ing-wen, who activists say has backed away from a promise of marriage equality which she made in the run-up to elections in 2016.
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According to the source, Gabbard had her team working feverishly before Thanksgiving on a rollout plan for her presidential campaign, but -- after much of the work was done -- backed away from the plan.
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The measure passed 63-21625 after a group of disgruntled Democrats backed away from their threats to block or delay the funding measure because of a dispute over healthcare benefits for retired miners.
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Republicans have largely backed away from stricter gun limits, while Democrats emboldened by Trump's rhetoric are pushing for ambitious action, including expanded background checks and even a politically risky ban on assault weapons.
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The plant had been operated since the 1980s as a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota, and Tesla purchased it after G.M. backed away from the venture after its bankruptcy in 2009.
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But Rubio - who has been under pressure from student activists - backed away from a proposal to change age limits for guns, saying the issue did not have enough support in Congress to pass.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed away from a bipartisan deal on healthcare reached by two senators a day earlier, saying he could never support legislation "bailing out" insurance companies.
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Trump, in a barrage of stinging Twitter posts, condemned the Republicans who have backed away from his White House run, deepening a dramatic rift in the party over his struggling campaign for the Nov.
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Google eventually backed away from its plans to help the Pentagon's AI development, saying that it would not assist in the development of AI-assisted weapons or surveillance—two things that sound decidedly evil.
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Di Maio made no mention of a referendum on Italy's use of the euro which 5-Star originally pledged when it burst onto the political scene in 2013, but has since backed away from.
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Sanderson Farms Inc, the third-largest U.S. poultry producer, said it sold more chicken to Iraq when Baghdad backed away from Europe's poultry due to bird flu, or avian influenza (AI), in the bloc.
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But, in a stark midcourse correction on his immigration policy, Republican nominee Donald Trump this week backed away from a pledge to round up millions of undocumented immigrants and transport them outside the country.
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The latter seasons backed away from the idea that Emma was a sort of audience surrogate in the strange world, but it stands true that losing the character will require a major plot adjustment.
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Federal authorities backed away from that standoff at the time, but they claim Bundy has not paid grazing fees on federal land and that he owes some $1 million in unpaid fees and penalties.
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Confidence in the government has waned in recent months after reform moves upset both the opposition and some supporters, who said Tsai had backed away from promises to reduce the deficit and cut pollution.
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While Washington has backed away from supporting rebels fighting to topple Assad, Iranian and Russian military aid to the government has remained steadfast: Iran's supreme leader vowed on Thursday to continue support for Damascus.
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According to reports, the White House has backed away from an initial plan to levy new sanctions in retaliation for the missile tests, which are considered to be likely violations of United Nations sanctions.
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And while Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger who slipped behind Trump in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, is seen as more closely representing the status quo, she too has backed away from free trade.
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Trump made a campaign pledge to move the embassy, a promise previous presidents have made and then backed away from when faced with the complexities of the situation and the strife it could cause.
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The President has roiled some of our staunchest allies in Europe, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel who has been disappointed with the way that the President has backed away from strong support of NATO.
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Gold rose on Thursday as the U.S. dollar backed away from 22.2 highs after weaker-than-forecast U.S. inflation data and as tensions between the United States and Iran also supported the precious metal.
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Assad faced some pressure from his Russian patrons not to embarrass them; but, after Obama backed away from his threat of force, Assad never faced a serious threat of military action by the West.
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The fate of the U.S.-North Korea summit meeting next month is still uncertain, but President Trump backed away from demanding immediate denuclearization in an apparent effort to preserve his date with Mr. Kim.
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The Thaad antimissile system is in place, United Nations sanctions have been expanded, the American naval presence in the region has been increased, China has backed away from its purchases of North Korean coal.
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In recent days, he has allowed his son-in-law to lead a major policy shift in the Middle East and has backed away from a high-profile promise to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from days of angry rhetoric against Iran as the two countries tried to defuse a crisis over the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
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Trump has since backed away from those ideas while Khamenei has said Iran would never hold such one-on-one talks but could engage in multilateral discussions if Washington returns to the 2015 pact.
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Over the weekend her staff backed away from the document, saying it was incomplete and had been published by accident, after Republicans pounced on the plan, citing a blog post of frequently asked questions.
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MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - The jailed leader of Catalonia's main pro-independence party has backed away from demands for unilateral secession from Spain, days before a regional election that polls suggest will produce a hung parliament.
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Trump has never backed away from his campaign promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico, though he has lately softened his pledge to make Mexico pay for it, at least right away.
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He made headlines in March when he suggested in an interview that women who undergo abortion should face "some form of punishment" should the practice be outlawed, a comment that he quickly backed away from.
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Go deeper: Body doubles and burning files: Latest Khashoggi case leaks Members of Congress react to the Saudis' Khashoggi story on the Sunday shows The companies who have backed away from Saudi business over Khashoggi
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Although he backed away from earlier primary claims that he would deport 12 million illegal immigrants, now saying that only 2 million criminals would be getting the boot, that was not much of a concession.
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The consumer credit lender said it expected its digital arm to continue to grow strongly, however it backed away from its target of the unit delivering its maiden profit in 2018 citing new accounting rules.
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He quickly backed away from the remarks, releasing a statement in which he said that women who obtain abortions are victims and that doctors who perform the service are the ones who should be punished.
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As the Kremlin backed away from its stranglehold on satellite states in Eastern Europe, revolutions swept through the region, some peaceful and others violent, all of which brought to an end to the Soviet Union.
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"We need somebody in the Oval Office who really understands that NARAL and Planned Parenthood are not part of the establishment," Clinton said without mentioning Sanders, who backed away from his initial comments on Thursday.
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But the president reportedly backed away from the idea of firing Rosenstein and Mueller after the deputy attorney general told him in the White House meeting that he was not a target of Mueller's investigation.
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But last summer, Republicans backed away from that pledge, because, they said, FCC Chairman Wheeler refused to clearly state his willingness to step down under a Republican presidency, as is customary under a new administration.
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Following the backlash in the United States over Trump's cordial public tone with Putin at the Helsinki summit, U.S. and Russian officials backed away from a proposal to schedule a follow-up summit in Washington.
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Moscow-based Proxima, which backed away from making an offer for JKX in February, called last month for the removal of seven out of JFX's nine directors including its chairman, chief executive and finance director.
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For years, under both Republican and Democratic leaders, the FCC has backed away from regulating websites or Internet companies — opting instead to regulate the providers of Internet access, such as Comcast (CMCSA) or Verizon (VZ).
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The state's lawsuit would do what the Trump administration had backed away from — court-enforced controls on the police that the Obama administration engineered through consent decrees in troubled communities from Ferguson, Mo., to Cleveland.
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Although last week President Donald Trump backed away from a pledge to impose limits on Chinese investment into U.S. technology companies, he now wants Congress to decide whether rules around foreign investment should be altered.
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Then, last week, lawmakers backed away from a compromise Mr. Cooper thought he had brokered to repeal the state's notorious "bathroom bill" limiting protections of gay rights, which has exposed North Carolina to costly boycotts.
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In Burkina Faso, where crowds ousted Blaise Compaore in 2014 as he tried to extend his 27-year rule, France backed away from its former friend, having quietly told him it was a bad idea.
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CNN revealed Tuesday night that the frontrunner in an Alabama Senate race has repeatedly questioned President Barack Obama's citizenship, and did so again late last year — even after Donald Trump backed away from the claim.
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Guthrie also pressed DeVos on why the president backed away from his original promise to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21; DeVos claimed "everything is on the table," but didn't elaborate.
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Concerns that the provision could be used as precedent, letting the AU send troops into other countries without consent, were cited as a likely reason some leaders may have backed away from the Burundi plan.
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It's unclear now whether bidding on the JEDI contract would amount to a violation of Google's newly announced principles—or whether the Pentagon would consider partnering with Google again after the company backed away from Maven.
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The decision came after central bank chief Alexandre Tombini on Tuesday unexpectedly backed away from his insistence that higher rates were needed to curb inflation running at a 12-year high of more than 10 percent.
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Read more: All three GOP candidates backed away from their pledge to support GOP nominee But the party's paper-thin unity strained by Trump's anti-establishment campaign has led to the possibility of a contested convention.
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During that short initial meeting, while cameras were rolling, Reuters correspondent Jeff Mason asked Trump what he wanted to achieve at the summit and whether he had backed away from his demand for North Korea's denuclearization.
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But the fact that she condemned half of Trump's supporters is what worried Clinton's senior aides, who said Saturday they couldn't have a conversation around racism before Clinton backed away from that part of the comment.
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HOYER: ... and tragically, is, we backed away from the South Koreans without even talking to them, in terms of -- and using the Chinese language that training exercises were somehow hostile actions, which was never the case.
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Although his administration has backed away from mass deportations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers made 41,318 arrests during the first three months of the Trump presidency, up 38 per cent from the same period of 93.
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In an interview with ABC News that will air on Wednesday evening, Trump returned to a campaign pledge he had previously backed away from: to not only lift the ban on torture, but encourage its use.
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He has also backed away from the effort, championed by his predecessors Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, to rein in and reform police departments, like the one in Ferguson, Missouri, that have discriminated against African-Americans.
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Democrat Ralph Northam defeated the liberal he faced in the Virginia primary who had the backing of the left; he is an Army veteran, and backed away from such signature liberal-left policies as sanctuary cities.
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Los Angeles TV station KABC backed away from a story it reported that a registered nurse in Pomona, California, was one of the jackpot winners after the woman's daughter said her mother was not the winner.
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A reduced ban could allow her to play next year in time for Wimbledon or the French Open, and it could help redeem her with some of the major sponsors who have backed away from her.
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In the weeks since, administration officials from national security adviser John Bolton to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have begun adding conditions that could indefinitely delay a troop departure and have backed away from discussing timelines.
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A longtime backer of the Syrian opposition, the Turks have in recent months backed away from their demand that Mr. Assad step down and instead have shifted their focus to limiting Kurdish autonomy in northeastern Syria.
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When a reporter asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, specifically about the Libya model and if the administration's approach to North Korea would be the same, she backed away from Mr. Bolton's comparison.
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In November, Jackson proposed a May 7 trial date, but she backed away from setting any trial schedule while prosecutors and defense attorneys negotiated about various legal motions that will be filed in the coming months.
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On Wednesday, the US military said that the missile strikes resulted in no US casualties, and in a White House address Trump backed away from further military action and called for diplomacy to reduce their differences.
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As yet, the Donald Trump administration has backed away from that move, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that screening for the virus would be expanded from five to 20 airports.
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But for the first time, one of his proposals is under fire: Some progressives were critical of the health care plan he unveiled this week, which backed away from his previous support for Medicare for All.
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Senate Minority Leader and Democrat Chuck Schumer famously tweeted a message of support to President Trump during a heated period in the U.S.-China trade talks this year that Schumer has not yet backed away from.
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The threat of a U.S. government shutdown this weekend appeared to recede on Tuesday after Trump backed away from a demand that Congress include funding for his planned border wall with Mexico in a spending bill.
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In 2015, for example, an industry-backed legalization measure in Ohio was defeated, after many political activists backed away from supporting it, arguing that the measure unfairly favored a few connected players at the expense of consumers.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump may have made headlines earlier this week when he backed away from a pledge to support the Republican nominee, but on Saturday, he urged others to take a pledge of a different kind.
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" While he decried gun-free zones as "offering up candy to bad people," he backed away from axing all of them, telling CNN in the May 24 interview that they would only be eliminated "in some cases.
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Thiel: Although Thiel backed away from his assertion that allowing women to vote was a blow to capitalist democracy in his 2009 essay, his primary argument — that perhaps democracy should not exist at all — was left standing.
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Earlier this month, the FBI backed away from a controversial case against the tech giant that has been seen as exemplifying the so-called going dark debate, when suspected terrorists use encrypted communication to hide from surveillance.
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Adani shrank the project plans early last year to make it more affordable after running into problems lining up financing, as banks backed away from funding new coal mines under pressure from investors worried about climate change.
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The United States and other Western governments that were previously calling for Assad's early departure have quietly backed away from that demand as his position has been strengthened by Russia's military involvement in Syria since last September.
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday quickly backed away from a proposal to restrict media access in the Capitol after an angry backlash from reporters and an emergency meeting between the Senate Rules Committee and the media gallery directors.
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After initially suggesting that Republicans should "fight" the NRA "every once in awhile" and look into several gun-control measures, Trump soon backed away from supporting heightened background checks and raising the age limit for rifle purchases.
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"I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid," Mr. Trump told The Daily Signal, a pledge he has since backed away from, but only haltingly.
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The measure advanced by a vote of 2628-28500 after a group of disgruntled Democrats backed away from their threats to block or delay the funding measure because of a dispute over healthcare benefits for retired miners.
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Trump also backed away from confrontation over Iran on Monday, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron stunned other leaders by inviting Iran's foreign minister to Biarritz for talks on the stand-off between Washington and Tehran.
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When Mr. Trump backed away from his decision to withdraw all American troops remaining in Syria, he appeared to accept the admonitions of his military chiefs and advisers about the dire consequences of an abrupt pull out.
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Relations between the countries have worsened since May, when China backed away from a nearly complete deal that would have required it to codify the agreement into Chinese law, which Beijing said would infringe on its sovereignty.
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" Lin Bennett, a state legislator in South Carolina, spoke approvingly of QAnon on social media but later backed away from it, telling Charleston's Post and Courier newspaper in May, "I got tired of looking at that stuff.
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Democrats also backed away from charging the president with bribery, one of only a few offenses listed in the Constitution as grounds for impeachment, and a term Democrats had increasingly been using to describe Mr. Trump's conduct.
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Mexico's peso rallied from a record low in January as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from threats to impose big tariffs on imports from Mexico and moved toward a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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It has backed away from offering non-deliverable forwards and there is no domestic interest rate swap market as there is not only in major markets but also in other emerging markets, such as Russia, Poland and Hungary.
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But as Buzzfeed reported last month, Palantir has lost top-tier clients including Coca-Cola, which backed away from a five-year contract in part because the beverage giant had a "difficult" working relationship with Palantir's young staff.
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More than a quarter of millennials said they had backed away from an organisation because of its political position, or that of its leader; only around a sixth said they had been positively attracted by a company's position.
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Emilia Clarke shared the shocking news in March that she had undergone two secret, life-saving brain surgeries for aneurysm growths, but the Game of Thrones star said Wednesday that she nearly backed away from revealing her truth.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump has backed away from a total ban on Muslims entering the United States, vice presidential running mate Mike Pence said on Thursday, a shift from one of the Republican presidential candidate's most provocative proposals.
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Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's lawyers, suggested last week that Pyongyang planned to let the prisoners go, though no formal announcement has been made and the White House and State Department have since backed away from those claims.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it was extremely concerned about Iran's announcement that it is scaling back curbs to its nuclear program and said that Tehran would face consequences if it backed away from its nuclear deal.
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Just last week, Salesforce backed away from bidding on Twitter despite Benioff's "love" for the company, because investors were less than enthralled about the prospect of taking on the social media platform that has consistently missed revenue expectations.
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Trump has not publicly backed away from comments disparaging federal judge Gonzalo Curiel – an American citizen first appointed to the bench by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger before President Barack Obama elevated him to federal court – as biased against him.
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This might seem minor, but last spring, the US and China were reportedly close to a trade deal, but talks broke down after Chinese officials made changes to the text and backed away from some of their commitments.
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The White House has thrown its weight behind a bipartisan bill in the Senate, but leadership has never been particularly warm to that effort, and rank-and-file Republicans have also backed away from parts of the plan.
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Mr. Trump has had a volatile relationship with reporters for years, and his aides suggested recently that they might move journalists out of the White House briefing room, but they have backed away from the idea for now.
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Democratic senators who are mulling presidential bids in 2020 haven't yet entirely backed away from shutdown threats, which could help them rev up support among the party base, but other Democrats have soured on it as a tactic.
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Democratic senators who are mulling presidential bids in 2628 haven't yet entirely backed away from shutdown threats, which could help them rev up support among the party base, but other Democrats have soured on it as a tactic.
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For now, at least, President Donald Trump has backed away from his declared intention to clamp down on a wide range of Chinese technology investments through a special emergency order, saying he would leave the job to CFIUS.
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The April rise is reassuring news for policymakers after the yuan steadied as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from labelling China a currency manipulator, saying the dollar was "getting too strong" and would eventually hurt the U.S. economy.
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But the peso has rallied from a record low in January as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from threats to impose big tariffs on imports from Mexico and toward a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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After days of publicly toying with the idea of declaring a national emergency in order to get his border wall built, President Donald Trump has backed away from the idea, seemingly deciding the situation isn't so dire after all.
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Things really started changing in 2015, when YouTube went from an amateur DIY platform to an entertainment staple, but the most noticeable grievances began in 2017 and continued into 2018, as YouTube backed away from creators it previously highlighted.
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But on October 13th—amid much bluster—President Donald Trump finally bowed to reality and the advice of his national security advisers and backed away from campaign promises to unilaterally abandon the deal to freeze Iran's nuclear weapons programme.
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Ms Bibi was first acquitted last October, but the government backed away from freeing her unconditionally after a wave of rioting orchestrated by an ultra-zealous Islamist political party, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, which continued to demand her death.
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It was so bombastic, it drew widespread criticism, and even the author of the note — Dr. Harold Bornstein — backed away from it, saying that he wrote it in five minutes while Trump waited outside his office in a limo.
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The heated debate over whether to legalize same-sex marriage presents a challenge to President Tsai Ing-wen, who rights activists say has backed away from her promise of marriage equality in the run-up to elections in 2016.
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Hagatña, Guam (CNN)North Korea leader Kim Jong Un appears to have backed away from a threat to fire missiles towards the US Pacific territory of Guam, opting instead to wait and see what the "foolish Yankees" do next.
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"Because Rubio has failed to do his job as a senator, broken the promises he made to Floridians and backed away from his lone signature piece of legislation on immigration, we cannot endorse him for president," the newspaper wrote.
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The April rise is reassuring news for policymakers after the yuan steadied as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from labeling China a currency manipulator, saying the dollar was "getting too strong" and would eventually hurt the U.S. economy.
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LONDON — Mediaset, an Italian media company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy, said on Tuesday that the French giant Vivendi had backed away from a deal to acquire 100 percent of Mediaset's pay-TV arm.
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Trump threatened to shut down the border this week if Mexico did not do more to apprehend Central American migrants passing through, though he backed away from his threat amid warnings such a move could cripple the U.S. economy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican-led Senate panel backed away from a plan to restrict media cameras in parts of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday after Democrats and some Republicans criticized the move as an attempt to curtail press access.
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But the peso has bounced back and business confidence has improved as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from threats to impose tariffs on Mexican-made goods and moved toward a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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House Republicans have since backed away from that plan, only to face resistance from defense hawks in their conference during a closed-door meeting Wednesday evening as they tried to corral the votes necessary to pass the spending bill.
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On one level, the world can breathe a sigh of relief that Mr. Trump has backed away from his most incendiary rhetoric and his administration is not about to start disruptive trade wars with China, Mexico and other countries.
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Although President Trump has backed away from his threat to pull the United States out of that regional trade accord with Mexico and Canada, the administration has given few clues as to how hard a line it will take.
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Bolsonaro's original proposal to move Brazil's embassy to Jerusalem angered the Muslim world, and senior Brazilian officials backed away from it for fear of damaging ties with Arab countries and jeopardizing billions of dollars in Brazilian halal meat exports.
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Ukrainian officials, for their part, initially agreed with Iranian suspicions that the 3½-year-old plane was brought down by mechanical trouble, but later backed away from that and declined to offer a cause while the investigation is ongoing.
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Just hours before, the police had backed away from a confrontation with the protesters, clearing out of the building after hours of standoff in which demonstrators had been steadily destroying the facade and glass walls of the Legislative Council.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least one person was killed in a grenade attack on a bar in Burundi on Monday night, witnesses said, in more violence since the African Union backed away from sending in peacekeepers without the government's consent.
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The Trump administration has backed away from the federal government's involvement in the project, which would rebuild passenger rail connections under the Hudson River between New York City and Newark, N.J., and withdrew from the program's board last summer.
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But regardless of these facts, and regardless of the relatively small threat that terrorism poses to the average American, Trump hasn't backed away from either his proposed Muslim ban or his accusation that Muslims aren't trying to stop terrorism.
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Trump has in recent days backed away from his earlier insistence that it be a concrete wall on the border, saying a steel fence would work just as well, but he has stuck to his demand of $5.6 billion.
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Up until now, investors have been focused primarily on three issues: global economic weakness, Britain's vote to leave the European Union and unpredictable Fed policy in which the U.S. central bank has backed away from its stated intentions to raise rates.
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Canadian Pacific Abandons Threat of Proxy Fight for Norfolk Southern | Canadian Pacific Railway backed away from a proxy battle to unseat Norfolk Southern directors, opting instead to enlist the rail operator's shareholders to press the board for friendly merger talks.
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Most Federal Reserve policymakers have not backed away from their expectations of two more rate increases by the end of 0.33 as they see the U.S. economy near full employment and are confident inflation would reach its 20.3-percent goal.
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But Saudi Arabia has backed away from that statement and has made efforts to show it continues to have a strong relationship with the U.S. even as members of Congress say the prince could be behind the killing of Khashoggi.
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Hyde-Smith's comments have turned that race, once seen as a slam-dunk for Republicans, into a potential nail biter that required a last-minute campaign visit by President Donald Trump, as a slew of corporate contributors backed away from her.
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In recent months, developing nations such as Pakistan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone have either canceled or backed away from previously negotiated BRI commitments, citing worries over high project costs and their impact on national debt and the economy.
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The full statement from State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert: Go deeper: Bipartisan Senate bill targets Saudis for Khashoggi and Yemen Khashoggi's warning on Mohammed bin Salman: "Shoot first, aim later" The companies who have backed away from Saudi business over Khashoggi
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United States President Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon backed away from derogatory comments ascribed to him about Trump's son in a new book that sparked White House outrage and could threaten Bannon's influence as a would-be conservative power broker.
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"LET THEM BE RICH" Trump also backed away from confrontation over Iran on Monday, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron stunned other leaders by inviting Iran's foreign minister to Biarritz for talks on the stand-off between Washington and Tehran.
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Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has backed away from free trade deals like NAFTA and President Barack Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Republican nominee Donald Trump seems to have tapped into America's ambivalence on free trade by pushing two seemingly contradictory ideas.
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Mexico's peso has rallied from a record low reached in January as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from threats to impose big tariffs on imports from Mexico and moved toward a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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However, most Federal Reserve policymakers have not backed away from their expectations of two more rate increases by the end of 249.29 as they see the U.S. economy near full employment and are confident inflation would reach its 0.303-percent goal.
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Mexico's peso has rallied back from a record low in January as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from threats to impose big tariffs on imports from Mexico and toward a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Australia, which has backed away from its own commitment to Paris without exiting the pact, was among the 18 nations of the Pacific Islands Forum that made the call at a meeting of leaders on the tiny island state of Nauru.
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Most Federal Reserve policymakers have not backed away from their expectations of two more rate increases by the end of 2017, as they see the U.S. economy near full employment and are confident inflation would reach the Fed's 2 percent goal.
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Trump has backed away from his campaign pledge to make Mexico pay for a wall, but just last week he threatened to close the border with Mexico unless he gets the money he wants from U.S. lawmakers for a barrier.
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Pruitt has stuffed the EPA with a number of personnel who used to be lobbyists for the industries they are now regulating at the same time it's backed away from restricting toxic substances like chlorpyrifos, methylene chloride, and trichloroethylene, among others.
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In an interview with BFM TV on Thursday, Le Pen backed away from the claims she made during the debate, saying she had no proof of the secret account, and if she had, she would have raised them with the court.
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High stakes While relations between Manila and Beijing may have improved, the South China Sea is resource rich and a crucial shipping route, and no parties have backed away from their claims, meaning tensions could flare up again at any time.
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Trump even backed away from the words "maximum pressure" that his administration had used to describe its approach to North Korea, combining the toughest-ever U.S. and international economic sanctions with diplomatic actions and the Republican president's military threats and preparations.
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In freezing the plan, Netanyahu backed away from an agreement reached in January 2016 after five years of negotiations, in which a space where men and women could pray together would be established at the southern end of the Western Wall.
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The Mexican peso has bounced back this year and business confidence has improved as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from threats to impose tariffs on Mexican-made goods and moved toward a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Although the idea was originally suggested by Republicans in the late 80s, the GOP had mostly backed away from it over the years (with the notable exception of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who supported that state's health overhaul in 2006).
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On Sunday, Trump backed away from his promise to erect a border wall, saying some areas could instead be "fencing," and added he would move to deport up to 3 million immigrants in the country illegally who have criminal records.
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It comes as North Dakota law enforcement backed away from a previous plan to cut off supplies to the camp – an idea quickly abandoned after an outcry and with law enforcement's treatment of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters increasingly under the microscope.
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But two days later, talking to an interviewer on national TV, not gun zealots at a convention, he backed away from his vow earlier this year to ban all gun-free zones in schools on Day 1 in the White House.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted Monday that the president "hasn't backed away" from his support for universal background checks or raising the age requirement for purchasing a rifle, despite neither being addressed in the official White House plan.
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He later deleted that tweet and wrote instead, "I deleted my post on #veterans and #PTSD not because I backed away from it but b/c it is hard to articulate the depth of the issue in 200 or so characters."
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The academy (and host network ABC, which has reportedly pushed for changes) faced an immediate backlash to the concept, but haven't completely backed away from the need to add more inviting elements, without transforming the Oscars into the People's Choice Awards.
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The European agreement with Ukraine was controversial because it provoked strong opposition from Russia and, when Viktor F. Yanukovych, then Ukraine's president, backed away from the accord, he began to lose his grip on power as the 2014 Maidan uprising unfolded.
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In a reversal earlier this month, Flynn and prosecutors had a falling out and Flynn backed away from earlier admissions of making false statements to the U.S. Justice Department in paperwork that disclosed his work as a Turkish government lobbyist.
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ALTOONA, Pa. (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump on Friday backed away from comments calling President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the founders of the militant group Islamic State, while the Republican Party sought to project unity behind their candidate.
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"He'll continue to support the Second Amendment, that's not something that he's backed away from," Sanders told reporters when asked if the president had made any promises to the NRA during his White House meeting on Thursday with the group's leadership.
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At another point, Mr. Mattis implored his audience to understand that just because the United States had backed away from the multilateral Pacific trade agreement "does not mean we are turning our back" on the prospect of negotiating bilateral trade agreements.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The threat of a U.S. government shutdown this weekend appeared to recede on Tuesday after President Donald Trump backed away from a demand that Congress include funding for his planned border wall with Mexico in a spending bill.
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The two allied leaders spoke in a call before Trump, in a speech, backed away from any military response toward Tehran in retaliation for the strikes on military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, Johnson's spokesman and the White House said.
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In Brussels, President Trump again backed away from endorsing NATO's mutual defense policy, which has been the foundation of the alliance since World War II. Instead, he lectured European leaders on what he called their "chronic underpayments" to the alliance.
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The Fed raised its key overnight lending rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but it has backed away from further monetary policy tightening this year largely due to a global economic slowdown and financial market volatility.
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But Bates backed away from his accusations of scientific fraud when challenged by other journalists, and he told a reporter at Associated Press that there had been "no data tampering, no data changing, nothing malicious" by Karl and his co-authors.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump "hasn't backed away" from his support of expanding background checks or raising the age limit on gun purchases, although neither were addressed in a plan the administration rolled out Sunday night.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump "hasn't backed away" from his support for expanding background checks or raising the age limit on gun purchases, although neither was addressed in a plan the administration rolled out Sunday night.
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Here's what you need to know: • President Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and backed away from a two-state solution in the Middle East, a policy that has underpinned America's role in peacemaking efforts there for decades.
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GAZA CITY — Palestinians reacted with anger and bafflement on Wednesday after the Trump administration apparently backed away from insisting that having two states — one for Israelis, one for Palestinians — was the only viable solution to the decades-long Middle East conflict.
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Treasury has refrained from making that designation despite Trump's campaign promise to do so as soon as he took office, and Trump himself in April 2017 had backed away from that stance and said that China was not a currency manipulator.
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As far as political beliefs go, once upon a time Kalanick talked about his love for Ayn Rand (which he has since backed away from), and his Twitter profile picture is a headshot of Alexander Hamilton from a $10 bill.
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Netflix, Spacey's agent, his publicist, and the industry at large have all backed away from him — he's been effectively fired from House of Cards and was completely recast in All the Money in the World, amid plenty of other fallout.
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The privacy issue has spooked at least one potential bank partner in Indonesia, Xiaomi's second-largest overseas market after India, which backed away from a deal in part because of concerns about invasive data collection, a senior executive at the bank told Reuters.
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The inflation rate has risen because of weakness in the peso, but the currency has rallied back from a record low it hit in January as U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from threats to impose big tariffs on imports from Mexico.
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President Donald Trump backed away from his controversial policy that led to the separation of families at the US-Mexico border — but if the president faced a public setback, it didn't surface in a packed and raucous arena in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon on Sunday backed away from derogatory comments ascribed to him about Trump's son in a new book that sparked White House outrage and could threaten Bannon's influence as a would-be conservative power broker.
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The company selected Dublin because it had considered London and Barcelona — there are already three centers in the US, in Austin, Cambridge San Jose — but backed away from the former because of uncertainties around Brexit, and the latter because of political upheaval.
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The executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, John Tierney, told CNN that while Moon initially opposed THAAD, he later backed away from his comments, saying that it should be up to the next administration to decide on it.
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And the National Basketball Association backed away from principles of free speech and democracy in pursuit of the mighty yuan, when it distanced itself from the general manager of the popular Houston Rockets, for tweeting support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.
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Since the Paradise cast returned from their investigation-forced break, we've watched the couple's romance fall apart in front of our eyes, as Dean backed away from a "serious" relationship in favor of his increasingly lusty interest in Paradise newcomer Danielle Lombard.
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The response to the unsubstantiated assertions was immediate, as journalists and legal observers decried Whelan for committing what some were calling defamation, and many of Whelan's conservative allies who had been awaiting the information Whelan promised to reveal backed away from his accusation.
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MADRID, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The jailed leader of Catalonia's main pro-independence party has backed away from demands for unilateral secession from Spain, days ahead of regional elections that could swing the course of the Catalan crisis toward negotiation and calm investor nerves.
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A senior Democrat close to the campaign told CNN it wants to have a conversation about what it sees as the racism in Trump's campaign, but could not have that part of the conversation until Clinton backed away from the "half" comment.
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After co-authoring the Gang of Eight immigration bill in 2013, Rubio later backed away from it -- but still supports individual pieces of it, including eventually offering the 11 million people here illegally the opportunity to obtain green cards and apply for citizenship.
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Following Fitch agency's decision to lower the outlook on Italy's debt rating on Friday, neither Matteo Salvini nor Luigi Di Maio - the heads of the League and 5-Star Movement respectively - backed away from promises to reduce taxes and boost welfare spending.
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Though Italy's leadership has backed away from proposals to leave the eurozone, it plans to aggressively pursue what it views as reforms to the EU's Fiscal Compact and Stability and Growth Compact, which limits a country's budget deficit to 3 percent of GDP.
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Manafort, hit with two indictments accusing him of conspiracy against the United States and other crimes, backed away from an earlier request to the same judge for dismissal of the special counsel's charges during an April 4 hearing in a related civil lawsuit.
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That program is aimed at rebuilding passenger rail connection under the Hudson River between New York City and Newark, N.J. But the Trump administration has backed away from the federal government's involvement in the project, withdrawing from the program's board last summer.
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In the House, Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE has backed away from his controversial decision last week to fire the Rev.
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Booker's remarks came after The New York Times reported this week that Trump sought to fire Mueller in June, shortly after he was appointed, but that he ultimately backed away from the move after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
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Though China and the US appeared ready to finalize an agreement this week, multiple outlets reported that China had abruptly backed away from huge chunks of the 150-page draft deal last Friday, making changes and reneging on commitments throughout the entire document.
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But he has backed away from threatening what he once called fire and fury, and Mr. Kim may well be betting that as long as Iran dominates the headlines and the White House's attention, he can keep producing missiles, fuel and weapons.
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While President Trump said earlier in August that he was open to signing universal background checks into law, he backed away from that position this week, instead signaling an increased focus on mental health solutions — which are not scientifically linked to mass shootings.
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The FPO repeatedly called for another coalition with Kurz during the election campaign but it has backed away from the idea as the scale of its defeat at the ballot box became clear - even though its 31 seats would be enough for Kurz.
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President Trump plans to ease restrictions on political activity by churches and charities, White House officials said, but he has backed away from a broader religious-liberty order that would have let faith-based organizations and companies avoid serving or hiring gay people.
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In May, the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition backed away from a plan to give Alibaba membership in its ranks as part of a united effort to fight fakes, after other members objected and raised questions about financial ties between Alibaba and the group's leadership.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said Iran would face consequences if it backed away from its nuclear deal, following Tehran's announcement on Wednesday that it was scaling back curbs to its nuclear program that had been agreed under a 2015 deal with world powers.
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He also backed away from his debate-stage argument in favor of states' rights, saying that "I fought my heart out to make sure that civil rights, voting rights, equal rights are enforced everywhere" and that it's the "federal government's duty" to ensure their enforcement.
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The presumptive GOP nominee has not backed away from his harsh criticism of Mexico and undocumented immigrants, most recently saying an Indiana-born federal judge would be biased against him in a lawsuit over a separate business venture, Trump University, because of his Mexican heritage.
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As Kaiser noted, this movement came after President Donald Trump's administration said last month that it agreed the ACA should be scrapped (Trump has since backed away from that position, saying Congress should wait until after the election before voting on an ACA replacement).
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and Britain pledged on Thursday to support African Union efforts to set up a hybrid court to try war crimes committed during South Sudan's civil war after the country's leaders backed away from their commitment to the tribunal.
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After a brief interlude in 2013, when Senate Republicans in the so-called Gang of Eight joined Democratic colleagues to try and forge an immigration deal, the party faced a grassroots revolt and backed away from reform, stifling the measure in the House of Representatives.
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Trump's victory suggests that Republican voters are willing to be more flexible and strategic than many expected if they see a candidate who can take the White House (including supporting someone who spoke favorably of the Obamacare mandate, although he has backed away from that).
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When ITV's Robert Peston asked him about the omission after the speech, Corbyn backed away from a maximum income, saying he preferred policies that would create a maximum ratio (of 20-1) between what executives and the lowest-paid workers at a given company make.
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That bug was fixed July 19 — hence the significance of the July 20 date — but one positive element of that first scare is that many in the Ethereum community, and particularly those who have held ICOs, backed away from the technology in favor of alternatives.
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WASHINGTON — A few hours after Donald J. Trump publicly backed away from a $1 trillion tax cut for small businesses, campaign aides on Thursday privately assured a leading small-business group that Mr. Trump in fact remained committed to the proposal — winning the group's endorsement.
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" Plus, he thinks if the U.S. backed away from a trade dispute from China "for real," then we would hear Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and trade advisor Peter Navarro "flapping their arms and stamping their feet and that's not what we're hearing right now.
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The world's largest online retailer has also been unable to convince key broadcast and basic cable networks to break with decades-old business models and join its a la carte Amazon Channels service, the sources said and has backed away from talks with them.
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It was as if Barstool was doubling down on being more Barstool than ever, even though ESPN wasn't the only partner that had been scared off: Portnoy told me another network had backed away from a deal, and that some advertisers had expressed concern.
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Update, Sunday, March 29: While President Donald Trump has backed away from an "enforceable quarantine" on New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel advisory for the tri-state area for the next two weeks.
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Corey Lewandowski had a $1.2-million offer from HarperCollins to write a book chronicling his time running Donald Trump's presidential campaign, but the publishing giant backed away from the deal amid concerns about Lewandowski's nondisclosure agreement, according to two sources familiar with the talks.
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The prospect of war in the Middle East ebbed on Wednesday as the United States and Iran backed away from further confrontation following a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian military commander, and an Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Iraq in response.
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In his remarks before the Security Council reported by The Washington Post, Tillerson backed away from his statements earlier this week in which he appeared to be open to talking with North Korea without the country agreeing to a freeze on its nuclear program.
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Federal authorities had also sought to introduce evidence of trading by Mr. Walters in shares of Apple in the summer and fall of 2013, which had not been previously reported, but they backed away from that during the hearing on Monday afternoon before Judge Castel.
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Editorial President Trump came forward with a nonsensical statement on Wednesday as he dangerously backed away from the two-state solution, which has been central to America's Mideast policy for more than 20 years and remains the only just answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Negotiations over North Korea's nuclear arsenal have made little progress since the two leaders' first meeting in Singapore last June, above, and the new meeting is a sign of how quickly the president has backed away from his initial insistence on fast action by Pyongyang.
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So, while Trump is prepared to continue embracing his decision to slap new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program, the President has also backed away from, or at least refrained from any further embrace, of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's attitude toward Iran.
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Go deeper: Analysis of the latest from Saudi Arabia, on our Pro Rata podcast The companies who have backed away from Saudi business over Khashoggi U.S.–Saudi relations are at their lowest point since 9/11 Saudi Arabia threatens response to "any action" over Jamal Khashoggi
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The threat of a government shutdown seemed to be averted when Mr Trump backed away from insisting that funding for the wall he wants to build along the Mexican border should be included in a spending bill that will keep the government running until September 30th.
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Many White House officials and Republicans had little interest in pursuing gun reforms even after back-to-back shootings in Texas and Ohio in August, and Trump publicly backed away from the idea of universal background checks just a few weeks into negotiations over a solution.
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Congressional Democrats have been trying for more than a year now, for example, to get Trump interested in their plans for a huge boost in infrastructure spending — something Trump said he favored as a candidate, backed away from as president, but still seems to like talking about.
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In the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since Trump's victory in the 2016 election, the Republican president backed away from a U.S. embrace of the eventual creation of a Palestinian state, upending a position taken by successive administrations and the international community.
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Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have since backed away from the tax hikes following a U.S. threat to limit the benefits from their membership of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) — the U.S.' main trade legislation for Africa which permits duty-free U.S. imports on 6,500 goods.
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The president has backed away from his threat to circumvent Congress by declaring a national emergency to redirect money for the border wall, which would have paved the way for the government to reopen but would also have opened the spigot on a stream of legal challenges.
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Telegram initially said in its offering documents that it would do a public sale of Grams, to smaller investors, but it backed away from that after American regulators spoke in congressional hearings in February about their concerns over I.C.O.s, according to the people briefed on the deal.
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Though the 28 members of the European Union spoke with one voice Thursday in the council to condemn Saudi human rights abuses, the bloc's leaders in Brussels backed away from a proposal to blacklist the kingdom over accusations that it helps fund terrorism and launders money.
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But more than that, we sensed that producers in Languedoc, as has happened in much of the world over the last decade, have backed away from pushing the boundaries of ripeness in the vineyard and wringing out the last measures of fruit and power in the winery.
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The Airbnb legislation would mark one of the most significant steps that city officials have taken to curb the sharing economy since Mr. de Blasio endorsed, but then backed away from a plan to place a cap on the number of ride-sharing vehicles in 2015.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday backed away from his endorsement of a bipartisan Senate proposal to stabilize health insurance markets, throwing the legislative effort into doubt even as the chief architect of the deal predicted that it would become law before the end of the year.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday will ease restrictions on political activity by tax-exempt churches and charities, White House officials said, but has backed away from a broader religious liberty order that would have allowed faith-based organizations and companies to avoid serving or hiring gay people.
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The prospect of war in the Middle East ebbed on Wednesday as the United States and Iran backed away from further confrontation after a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian military commander, and an Iranian missile attack on U.S. forces in Iraq in response.
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But Warren has since backed away from Sanders' views on Medicare for All, particularly on how she will pay for the plan, how long it will take for her to implement the plan and, most recently, her emphasis on "choice" as part of her health care proposal.
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President Trump is still digging in on his demand for money for a wall at the southern border, though he has backed away from declaring a national emergency to build one — which has been seen as the only way out of the impasse with House Democrats.
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To lay responsibility for the horrors in Syria and the response to them at Trump's door may be misplaced, although it's hard to overlook that this attack came less than a week after the White House backed away from the previous US policy of demanding that Assad must go.
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The book gives us to understand that Obama backed away from marriage to Jager not because their love affair had run its course but because a wife who would be viewed by the public as white — or at least as not black — was inconsistent with his political destiny.
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Trump has attacked its members for not spending enough on their militaries, started a trade war with the bloc by announcing a series of punitive tariffs, abandoned international deals on climate change and Iran's nuclear program, and backed away from signing the typically-uncontroversial G-7 statement last month.
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"What we have essentially is a verbal agreement that the two countries will continue to work on in the next 90 days to see if we can't have more structure to this, but it is good news that at least we've backed away from the brink, even temporarily," Kirk said.
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The national Republican leadership has, to an extent, backed away from Moore—the Alabama state Party has not—but it had earlier supported him even though he said that he did not believe that Muslims ought to be seated in Congress or that gays and lesbians should have basic rights.
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He ultimately backed away from that demand, instead calling for the original briefing and allowing the Justice Department to refer the matter to the inspector general — but the incident raised fears among some critics that he would spark a constitutional crisis by seeking to intervene directly in an active investigation.
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He backed away from portions of that policy, only to tweet that in the future deportations should be carried out "without judges or court cases" — a chilling reminder of the consistent, multifront threat posed to the rule of law by a president who's undertaking a partisan purge of the FBI.
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The media, which seems to be repenting for having misread or misrepresented polls that showed a sure Hillary Clinton win, now atones by constantly hedging — offering us a tree of all possible outcomes and a range of fairly noncommittal speculations that can be backed away from if their conjectures prove false.
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He backed away from his earlier insistence that the Senate focus on a plan to repeal much of the existing Obama-era law and allow a two-year window for its replacement — an iffy proposition given the difficulties that Republicans are currently having coming up with a consensus health care policy.
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White House officials and GOP leaders in Congress have insisted that passing the repeal-and-replace measure is a mandatory first step for the rest of the president's agenda, although Mulvaney backed away from that Friday, telling ABC that Trump's promised tax reform could move forward even with Obamacare intact.
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"I believe when one looks nationally, the tough on crime rhetoric came and went and there's still people who are going to give it the swan song but for a variety of reasons people have backed away from that," said Bruce Reilly, deputy director of the New Orleans-based VOTE group.
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Though the administration backed away from its "zero tolerance" immigration enforcement policy after prolonged outcry, this level of casual cruelty is not so easily cleaned up: It lingers both in the children who have yet to see their parents again and in the lasting trauma done to even reunified families.
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Such an agenda wouldn't just be unpopular with the party's donor class (though it would); it would threaten the stability of the larger Democratic coalition, which depends heavily on middle- and upper-middle-class support and whose leaders have repeatedly backed away from middle-class tax increases lest they give Republicans an opening.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — The Trump administration has quietly backed away from its determination to deport certain Vietnamese immigrants who have been in the United States for years, a policy that had put the United States at odds with Vietnam and led to the resignation of the American ambassador there last year.
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JAIME DIMON YESTERDAY BACKED AWAY FROM THOSE COMMENTS SAYING THE BITCOIN IS A FRAUD HAVE YOU RETHOUGHT YOUR POSITION ON BITCOIN, AND HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOME OF YOUR PORTFOLIO BANKS WANTED TO MAKE A MARKET IN BITCOIN, WANTED TO TRADE BITCOIN, WANTED TO MAKE A BUSINESS OUT OF BITCOIN TRADING?
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The reversal in the Texas case was all the more striking because it came just three months after the Justice Department, under the Obama administration, filed a brief arguing on behalf of the very issue it backed away from Monday — that the Legislature intentionally sought to discriminate when it approved the law.
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Still, the very fact that Mr. Trump agreed to a second meeting with Mr. Kim — after North Korea's failure to begin dismantling its arsenal following their first meeting in Singapore last June — is a sign of how quickly the president has backed away from his initial insistence on swift disarmament by Pyongyang.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc are among more than 60 technology companies that appear to have backed away from the legal fight against U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, deciding not to put their weight behind a lawsuit seeking to block the second version of his executive order.
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Even with overwhelmingly superior U.S. naval and air capabilities during the Korean War and in the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1995-96, Washington backed away from directly confronting China, while managing to protect the immediate security of its ally, the Republic of Korea, and its partner and erstwhile ally, the Republic of China on Taiwan.
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"Trump appears to have made a concession regarding China, a key player in the North Korean situation," said Makoto Noji, senior strategist at SMBC Nikko Securities, referring to last week's U.S. Treasury's semi-annual currency report in which the Trump administration backed away from a key campaign promise and did not label China a currency manipulator.
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"Growth without inflation is a magical combination ... and I can't actually wait to see Friday's non-farm payroll report because I'm betting things picked up after Fed Chief Jay Powell backed away from nuking the economy in order to save it with a series of lockstep rate hikes at the beginning of the year," he said.
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According to two sources briefed on Trump's meeting with the Republican senators, Trump also reiterated his support for expanding sales of higher ethanol blends of gasoline, and backed away from a proposal to cap the price of credits called RINs that refiners must acquire and turn into the government each year to prove compliance with the biofuels quotas.
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But one has to wonder why he backed away from anything at all, even elements that seemed to be previously agreed upon, such as a feel-good, end-of-war declaration and the establishment of diplomatic liaison offices (which, in describing the offer as "welcomable," the North Koreans appeared to be declining in ever-so-polite terms).
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Since then, the president has backed away from his campaign promise to label China as a "currency manipulator" and has often spoken highly of Xi. Kristol, the co-founder and editor-at-large of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, was a vocal critic of Trump throughout his presidential campaign, saying the real estate mogul was unfit for the presidency.
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President Trump has repeatedly called allies to reassure them that he will not back away from the promise of a border wall he's made in rally after rally — though his outgoing chief of staff, John Kelly, said in an interview published Sunday that the administration had backed away from the idea of a solid concrete wall long ago.
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Most politicians, perhaps any other politician, would have backed away from the Russia story, and left the defense to surrogates or unexpected validators like Mike Morrell, the former acting director of the C.I.A., who said last week that "there is smoke, but there is no fire at all" in the allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
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In the 1920s, they joined other Northwest tribes to sue the federal government for lands lost; in the 20163s, even though they weren't considered eligible to participate, they voted to accept the Indian Reorganization Act, in which the government backed away from its assimilationist policies and instead encouraged tribes to be self-governing and self-sufficient.
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Trump, of course, ran for office as an open advocate of bringing back Bush-era torture, and when as president he backed away from that position, he was clear that he was doing so only on the say-so of Defense Secretary James Mattis rather than because he'd had any change of heart on the underlying substance.
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The list of Republicans denouncing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has swelled since the release of the 2005 tape showing Trump speaking in vulgar terms about groping women and getting away with it because of his celebrity — but there is a call among some in the party who are urging GOP voters not to vote for Republicans who have backed away from Trump.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Monday night backed away from his suggestion that President Obama sympathizes with terrorists — though he again questioned the president's support of American allies.
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Bloomberg previously floated the notion of a 2020 presidential bid, but ultimately backed away from a run earlier this year, believing that former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 2020 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides MORE would prove too formidable of a candidate in the Democratic primary.
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Clinton, who needs Sanders' coalition of young and left-leaning voters to propel her to the presidency, pushes for open trade and open borders in one of the speeches, and takes a conciliatory approach to Wall Street, both positions she later backed away from in an effort to capture the popular appeal of Sanders' attacks on trade deals and powerful banks.
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Adding to the mixed messages over what eventual deal the president would accept, John F. Kelly, the outgoing White House chief of staff, said in an interview published Sunday that the administration had backed away from the idea of a solid concrete wall long ago, even though Mr. Trump had dangled "steel slats" as a potential enticement to lawmakers only in recent weeks.
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He opened his White House bid in June 2015 by infamously labeling some Mexican immigrants as "rapists" and accusing them of bringing drugs and crime into the US. He also pledged to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, end birthright citizenship and deport all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, though he has since backed away from several of those stances.
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In 2016, Mark Galeotti pointed to "the Crimean annexation (which led to sanctions and massive costs to the state treasury), the Donbass adventure (which led to more sanctions and has mired Russia in an expensive, undeclared war), and the Syrian intervention (where Putin backed away from an early withdrawal, leaving him stuck in yet another open-ended war)" as examples of his costly overreach.
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That veto threat, which Trump eventually backed away from, stunned congressional Republicans who had already left Washington patting each other on the backs for keeping the government open and funded The reality for Ryan was -- and is -- this: He had hoped that the election of Trump would be a seminal moment for the rise of his ideas on taxes, deficit reduction and everything else under the sun.
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A group of Republican lawmakers from New York and New Jersey met with Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) on Wednesday to emphasize the importance of a multibillion-dollar rail project the Trump administration has backed away from in recent months. Rep.
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Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll GOP senator: Pelosi impeachment timeline intended to help Joe Biden Harris to cut some staff, redeploy others to Iowa in campaign shake-up MORE (D-Calif.) says she knew she would be "called a flip-flopper" when she backed away from her initial support for "Medicare for All" in favor of developing her own health care plan.
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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 on Wednesday backed away from his plan to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in the fall, citing the special counsel investigation into Moscow's interference in the 2016 election.
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In a career spanning 20 of the UFC's 24 years, Vitor Belfort has played the young upstart and the young dinosaur, the bulldozer and the bulldozed, the title contender (and, under technical circumstances, light heavyweight title holder) and the veteran veering into a ditch, the fighter who never backed away from the challenge and the system-gamer who had few compunctions about working the blurry edges of the rules.
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This is, remember, the man who has promoted the following false conspiracies -- that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya (he only relented on this argument in recent years), that the government tapped his phones during the election campaign, that vaccines cause autism (a theory he has since backed away from) and that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered (of which he has to yet to say otherwise).
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The latest flare-up in trade friction with China has rubbed a raw nerve among investors, who explained stocks' steady climb through April as a story of big threats fading from view: The onrushing recession feared in December is not in evidence; the Fed has backed away from rate hike plans; corporate earnings arrived better than forecast; and, until two weeks ago, the U.S.-China trade tussle looked near a benign resolution.
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The venue we liked best was the East, in Crown Heights, which had been established, in part, in response to the Black Arts Movement, which was itself founded in reaction to the death of Malcolm X. In those days, anti-honky fever was high, and, just as I flinched when I encountered racial slurs in books or on TV, I backed away from the militancy of the plays I saw at the East and elsewhere.
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At a hearing on Capitol Hill this week, Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, who is under pressure to investigate Clinton from Trump and high-profile figures in conservative media, backed away from that idea, telling lawmakers that he is still evaluating the matter.
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Transportation Secretary Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoTrump administration takes step to relax truck driver time regulations New guidance on travel with service animals is a step forward, but more can be done The Hill's Morning Report — Mueller testimony gives Trump a boost as Dems ponder next steps MORE on Wednesday said a public campaign is being waged to bully her department into funding a multibillion-dollar rail project the Trump administration has backed away from in recent months.
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Today, a replica of Jansky's scope sits on the lawn in front of Green Bank Observatory, one of the four world-class public radio telescopes in the US. Along with the Very Large Array, Arecibo Observatory, and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), it is the legacy of a boom time in federal investment in the field that began in earnest after World War II. In the past several years, though, the National Science Foundation has backed away from three of those instruments.
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Last week, news broke that Zume—a startup whose business centered on pizza par-baked by robots, then loaded into delivery trucks filled with ovens that finished each pie en route to its destination—had been compelled to lay off more than half of its employees because SoftBank's venture-capital arm, which had already invested three hundred and seventy-five million dollars in the company, had backed away from further funding, wanting Zume to pursue more aggressive "global domination" in its pizza craft.
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