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The club hierarchy eventually backed down and withdrew the increase.
I never backed down from a fight in my life.
Democrats refused and Trump eventually backed down on both fronts.
Ellison asked his name be taken off, but backed down.
Ultimately, security backed down and she stayed the entire match.
But after little more than a week he backed down.
However, he backed down after drawing criticism from party conservatives.
They have not backed down, even when attacked and intimidated.
Update: The Senate Rules Committee appears to have backed down.
But it was Khrushchev who backed down during the crisis.
He and Hillary have both actually backed down on that.
Conversely, Tehran backed down when the U.S. acted with strength.
We haven't backed down before; we won't back down now.
He backed down under pressure from Republicans and the media.
Administration officials later backed down after getting pushback from Congress.
It looks like the owners backed down a little bit.
After that led to outrage, the school district backed down.
Pence backed down, seeking amendments that watered down the law.
"They never backed down," Anderman said of the Parkland activists.
They ultimately backed down and invited the full Israeli roster.
Trump ultimately backed down on separating families in immigration detention.
Mr. Trump seriously entertained the idea but ultimately backed down.
Ultimately, the U.S. backed down and declined to enforce the sanctions.
Just one day after Shultz took a stand, Reagan backed down.
Eventually he backed down against the overwhelming popular opposition and resigned.
They raised such a ruckus that the IRS eventually backed down.
He got woke, quick, and the social-media mob backed down.
The company subsequently backed down in part on the proposed changes.
The protests lasted for days, even after Mr Ortega backed down.
On Thursday, Ginsburg backed down and apologized for criticizing Trump publicly.
They later backed down after Heller and other GOP senators complained.
In fact, Warren has not backed down once during her campaign.
Still, when he finally caught up with Nyquist, he backed down.
Initially, small third world nations dependent upon U.S. support backed down.
The government eventually backed down, though later arrested various people involved.
A predictable furor erupted, and last year the board backed down.
In the end the minister backed down, and quit last month.
Meadows ultimately backed down, for now, after meetings with House leadership.
He noted that Democrats backed down during the last government shutdown.
Mr. Rajapaksa finally backed down and Mr. Wickremesinghe remained prime minister.
If the US backed down once, it will back down again.
He backed down defenders to set up 15-foot fadeaway jumpers.
It ultimately backed down after the teachers union filed a lawsuit.
In the aftermath, both sides backed down from intensifying the conflict.
Vietnam eventually backed down a month later, under pressure from China.
Wallace eventually backed down, allowing black students to enroll in the school.
President Xi Jinping does not want to appear to have backed down.
In the end, the Soviet Union backed down and removed the missiles.
After four unsuccessful attempts to stop the filibuster, the GOP backed down.
Chanel eventually backed down and the cuff was never produced for sale.
The abortion bill marked the first time the government had backed down.
Meanwhile, the White House has not backed down on Trump's surveillance claims.
Trump later backed down, after they refused to comply with the request.
It would be the last time he backed down on this matter.
While Campbell has deleted the tweet, she hasn't backed down nor apologized.
Yes, we do have to overcome it…but I never backed down.
In the end, despite mass protests on the streets, Syriza backed down.
MILAN (Reuters Breakingviews) - Italy's anti-austerity leaders have backed down – a bit.
Eventually, the party backed down, such was his importance to Czechoslovak propaganda.
Other far-right ministers had threatened to quit, but later backed down.
Lawmakers backed down under pressure from the European Union and United States.
He even threatened to revoke Catalonia's autonomy unless Catalan lawmakers backed down.
Lam backed down and indefinitely suspended the bill but refused to apologize.
McGahn said he'd rather resign than do that, and Trump backed down.
He backed down from demanding that all American diplomats leave the country.
But Russia then backed down, and the council imposed sanctions on Thursday.
After an outcry, the Senate backed down and kept the old rules.
They quickly got schooled by an angry European Union, and backed down.
Mr. McGahn refused and prepared to resign before the president backed down.
Mr. McGahn refused and prepared to resign before the president backed down.
He's never backed down from a fight, always standing firm & with resolve.
But he backed down amid opposition from the NRA and fellow Republicans.
French planes had been minutes away from taking off when Obama backed down.
First Amendment and other protests were made, and the government eventually backed down.
" News outlets call out Trump on census reversal WaPo said he "backed down.
Faced with that onslaught, Trump backed down and decided to renegotiate NAFTA instead.
The White House eventually backed down and Mueller remained in his post. 5.
With rare exceptions, when defendants fought back, prosecutors either backed down or lost.
Within four months, Sony backed down and launched Fortnite cross-play in beta.
However, it backed down on that and Facebook remains accessible in the country.
Jordan has backed down on reforms in the past, fearing a social backlash.
Eventually the White House "backed down" on seeking legislation that would compel decryption.
The ruling coalition backed down at the time but has revived the proposals.
So far, neither side has backed down, and talks are at a standstill.
Earlier Wednesday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said he believes Syria has backed down.
The Pacific leader then abruptly backed down after Beijing complained about the plan.
On that occasion, with rifles trained on its officials, the BLM backed down.
When the Commons refused to endorse the change, the Senate characteristically backed down.
The Europeans threatened to retaliate against American firms and Reagan eventually backed down.
Although Ortega backed down a few days later, the protests did not stop.
There were instances in which they could have backed down but did not.
"Macron handled it very well, and M.B.S. backed down," the diplomat told me.
But then, at the moment of the Paris attacks, Mr. Abdeslam backed down.
But they backed down in 2015 in the face of intense public pressure.
Moses won the first round, Papp the second, and Moses then backed down.
Apple later backed down from these changes, but the timing didn't look great.
But he quickly backed down amid backlash from supporters and the gun lobby.
"I have never backed down from a fight," Ms. Gillibrand said on Sunday.
After nine days of uncertainty, Mr. Trump backed down and accepted Mexico's promises.
The White House, so far, has not backed down from support of Kavanaugh.
That's partly because Trump has already backed down from a slew of promises.
Trump reportedly backed down after McGahn, who disagreed with Trump's assessment, threatened to resign.
Eventually, the FBI backed down, finding another way into the device without Apple's help.
To this day, Cooper fondly recalls how he never backed down from the Pistons.
The Supreme Court was due to consider the issue when the government backed down.
Trump later backed down from that threat after striking a trade deal with Mexico.
Today, it appears the Oculus has backed down from its attempts to block Revive.
I never backed down from a fight in my life … Such an edgy broadcaster.
When Netflix faced rising competition from Blockbuster, the company could easily have backed down.
"I don't think they would have backed down unless Trump said something," he said.
Le Pen later backed down on her accusations, saying she doesn't have any proof.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggested that some executives have backed down from their commitments.
The BBC later backed down after protests and its stations now play the original.
Republican leaders said they would not repeal the law unless Charlotte backed down first.
President Trump backed down from a threat to veto a $1.3 trillion spending bill.
Jones ultimately backed down on his threat to sue, but the ill will remained.
The result was confusion and a potential challenge – though Clinton's forces backed down quickly.
Even after the government backed down on the fare increase, the protests raged on.
But Gomes refused to step down and Vaz finally backed down under international pressure.
But when challenged by the courts, or the Republican-held Congress, he backed down.
Meanwhile, the FBI backed down, but only because it found an alternative way in.
After US crude reached nearly $77 a barrel in early October, Trump backed down.
President Donald Trump ultimately backed down from the effort after the Supreme Court's ruling.
One of the researchers on the project pushed back and the official backed down.
Trump then backed down when — to no one's surprise — North Korea made more threats.
She's never backed down from any challenge, and handles them with grace and confidence.
Trump backed down on his quest to introduce a question about citizenship on the census.
They say as of now Tommy has not backed down ... he's pressing charges against Brandon.
Mr Bullock derided their "wish-list economics", but neither backed down from their ambitious plans.
Eventually they wore down City Hall, which backed down a bit from a total conversion.
The FBI eventually backed down when they used a third party to access the phone.
Previous governments have tried to cut subsidies but backed down at the first bread riot.
He later backed down from the threat after signing a trade deal with the country.
Federal agents finally backed down, citing safety concerns, and returned hundreds of cattle to Bundy.
On January 12th Lego backed down, saying it would no longer query a buyer's purpose.
And Trump, who hasn't backed down from his claim, continued his attacks on his predecessor.
"If it were purely about the money, they wouldn't have backed down," Mr. Muse said.
Trump hasn't refrained from tweeting since, nor has he backed down from his tough rhetoric.
In January, news broke that he ordered the removal of Mueller, but ultimately backed down.
More recently, LinkedIn backed down after blocking the account of activist Zhou Fengsuo in China.
That led Brexiteers to claim victory, saying that May had backed down on the issue.
Since his weekend tweets, Trump has not backed down on his comments about Democratic Reps.
Decide which fights are worth having, and which ones are better to have backed down.
The Trump administration, however, has not backed down from its tough talk against North Korea.
Trump backed down, setting his eyes on the 2018 budget to fight for his wall.
After personal stories surfaced in the British news media, the government backed down and apologized.
That prospect alarmed France, Italy and Greek's left-wing government enough that they backed down.
That latter incident led Trump to threaten major reprisals (though, as mentioned, he backed down).
Despite the outpouring of contrary evidence, Trump hasn't backed down from his claims against Amazon.
McCarthy reminded the President to include border security in any agreement, and Trump backed down.
The mayor in question backed down from the idea when he was offered police protection.
Your activism has come at a price but you haven't backed down...not even once.
Kennedy decided on a naval blockade rather than an air strike, and Khrushchev backed down.
Costco backed down, restocked the title, and D'Souza's books were suddenly more popular than ever.
L on Saturday after neither side backed down in a drawn-out $34 billion battle.
The proposal brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets, and the government backed down.
The commission backed down for fear of worsening their fiscal problems and, perhaps, of stoking Euroscepticism.
Broadway star Jennifer Holliday said yes to performing, but backed down after a backlash from fans.
But Stack hasn't backed down on his decision and is actually leaning even more into it.
After controversy, the government backed down somewhat, clarifying that it would not ask for IP addresses.
The White House recently backed down on the rate at which the imports would be taxed.
Erdogan has not backed down in the face of military saber-rattling, like most administrations have.
The Paraguayan lawmakers backed down on their threat on Thursday after the cancellation of the deal.
Many columns and radio shows and editorials followed, and four months later the mayor backed down.
Universal actually backed down, even from that high price, because of theatrical pushback to the idea.
Cambridge Analytica has repeatedly denied assertions about interactions with Facebook data, but Facebook hasn't backed down.
Neither Mulvaney nor English have backed down, and both sent introductory emails to staff Monday morning.
He never backed down or backed away from giving to us the news — straight and true.
The agency backed down after it found a way to hack Farook's phone without Apple's help.
Nelson said if Schumer backed down it would be a "bitter pill to swallow" for progressives.
And yet the Treasury secretary stuck to it in congressional hearings and has never backed down.
For all of Trump's constant press attacks, the media has not backed down and surely won't.
"They have not backed down, even when attacked and intimidated," he wrote of Stills and Wilson.
Facebook backed down, ruling that the historical importance of the photo outweighed the company's nudity rules.
That followed criticism that the Trump administration had backed down without getting concrete concessions from China.
The district backed down, letting Student A into the locker rooms and installing private changing rooms.
But they backed down following complaints from farm-state members on both sides of the aisle.
When editors at various news organizations balked, White House officials backed down, agreeing to nullify it.
The two ministers backed down overnight, bolstering Mr. Netanyahu's argument that he remained Israel's indispensable protector.
On Saturday, Mr. Maduro backed down from demanding that American diplomats leave the country this weekend.
After a brief conversation with a supervisor he backed down and the match began as scheduled.
The 28 million march Three days later, Lam backed down and suspended the controversial extradition bill.
The government backed down but has continued to chip away at the powers of the courts.
Hu Jintao, the president of China at the time, and the Hong Kong administration backed down.
The SEC expressed serious concerns that this move violated the securities laws, and Carlyle backed down.
The American people's opposition to extreme reform ensured that congressional Democrats backed down from anything extreme.
Which, officially, succeeded: The Russians backed down, the missiles went away, and the world was saved.
Other writers would have backed down in the face of such condemnation, but Handke has not.
Berkshire-backed Kraft Heinz backed down from a $143 billion offer for Unilever earlier this year.
When civil servants howled about plans to cut their ample pay, the government backed down in April.
They brought the case against my school, and my school backed down because of Labour's Equality Act.
And I do think that was a bipartisan concern, the president backed down and changed the policy.
So the White House backed down, apparently to avoid being seen as trying to aid Clinton's campaign.
He would surely push on for fear of what might happen at home if he backed down.
But within days he backed down, cancelling the price hikes and ordering the army to restore order.
It backed down after America and the EU threatened to impose sanctions and stop buying Libyan oil.
Nass could simply have backed down, apologized, and adopted the divide-by-question system for future exams.
According to the defamation lawsuit, Ethan's fired off a cease and desist letter and she backed down.
She says she and others won't forget how the City Council backed down instead of standing up.
The government backed down and Apple won't have to face any similar court orders for a while.
Trump has already reportedly attempted to fire Mueller once, but backed down under advice of his staff.
And, for what it's worth, he eventually backed down and told AP he will cooperate with Mueller.
Eventually, the Taliban fighters backed down, and some even helped the soldiers direct traffic around the accident.
Russia has also asked for the drills to stop but the United States has not backed down.
Despite the legal challenges, the company has not backed down one inch from its real ginger claims.
Lyubov Sobol, one of the excluded candidates, told Reuters demonstrations would continue until the authorities backed down.
President Daniel Ortega, who is been in power for 11 years, backed down a few days later.
Previously Kenya announced the closure of refugee camps but backed down in the face of international pressure.
The agency backed down and a Senate committee sent his nomination to the floor two weeks ago.
But he ultimately backed down after the White House's top lawyer threatened to resign over the directive.
Aides warned that any military strike could escalate into all-out war, and eventually Nixon backed down.
Neither Leandra English nor Mick Mulvaney have backed down from their claims to the acting director role.
An old pickup truck was backed down to the shore, in the shade of some scrawny trees.
Chinese leaders backed down—and started working to prevent such a capitulation from ever being necessary again.
City leaders backed down, but by then, clashes between demonstrators and the police had become increasingly violent.
Subsequent research by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reached the opposite conclusion, and the economists backed down.
The FBI eventually backed down after purchasing a tool that allowed its investigators to access the data.
He then backed down and ordered the Census Bureau to compile the information from existing government records.
Mr. Mueller and Mr. Comey threatened to quit over the episode, and the White House backed down.
Although the plan died in Congress, the court also backed down from its confrontation with the president.
Lawmakers previously threatened to challenge former President George W. Bush's 2005 emergency declaration, but he backed down.
He backed down but, as things stand, political gridlock fomented by Mr. Fico could hobble the court.
The company held talks to sell container terminal operator Sepetiba Tecon SA the same year, but backed down.
Ryan, who has been in Congress since 2003, has considered running for higher office before, but backed down.
Randazza threatened to tell CNN that the law school was censoring political speech, and the dean backed down.
Moniz noted that Roy had tried to kill himself two previous times, but backed down in both cases.
Trump backed down on Wednesday, signing an executive order to keep families together in detention during immigration proceedings.
After one of his people presented a good argument for the distinctive single home button, he backed down.
But after the court, packed with government stooges, declared Mr Tshisekedi the victor, SADC backed down almost immediately.
Again he threatened to dissolve the government if he did not get his way (he later backed down).
Once the drivers began setting up roadblocks on highways and burning tyres in protest, however, he backed down.
He backed down, but defensive tariffs still apply to three-fifths of American steel imports (see chart 1).
There were also details about the conversations with at least three other companies, which all ultimately backed down.
Though he ultimately backed down, he warned at the time that he would not sign a similar bill.
And so, for one of the only times in his three-year-old political career, Trump backed down.
"He doesn't believe anything should be for free," said Mr. Aridjis, adding that Mr. Slim eventually backed down.
Trump reportedly backed down from his demands when McGahn threatened to resign instead of carry out the order.
South Korea twice pursued the bomb in the 1970s and 1980s, and twice backed down under American pressure.
Beasley faced up and backed down, rotated over to block shots, and dropped nifty block-to-block dimes.
These days, climate deniers seem to have temporarily backed down a bit on claims that nothing is happening.
Mr. Trump ultimately backed down after Mr. McGahn threatened to resign rather than carry out the president's directive.
The one murder she committed was a compassionate one, and she backed down from two obvious assassination situations.
"He backed down because of cracks in support from his own party, plain and simple," Mr. Blumenthal said.
The show of hands was symbolic because Shi'ite leaders had backed down at the meeting the day earlier.
All of these actions led to more outrage and more demands for apologies, but he never backed down.
Finally, he tried to push through a labor-market overhaul, but largely backed down after huge street protests.
Then he claimed he had once had an appointment with Cummings, but that the lawmaker had backed down.
It's the second time this year that Trump has apparently backed down from his demands for wall money.
Arizona attempted to cut funding for certain expensive procedures in 2010, but backed down after a public outcry.
Following a brief armed standoff, the government backed down, canceled its roundup and released the cattle it had seized.
Some police departments, however, have backed down from their support of 2873(g) in the face of political pressure.
However, police were not in heavy riot gear and backed down after protesters initially refused to vacate the road.
Sony eventually backed down on both Fortnite and Rocket League cross-play with a new policy change last year.
The Joker prequel is still in its extremely early stages, and Reeves backed down on his claims of independence.
So what if the officer didn't fire at all, and the cops backed down and, perhaps, came back later?
But Finicum and many other ranchers took up arms and occupied Bundy's ranch, and the BLM eventually backed down.
She says Steven wanted to have sex while she was restrained but she was so adamant he backed down.
If neither side backed down, entire swathes of Europe—it's impossible to know where—would be reduced to rubble.
Earlier on Friday, a Taiwanese hacker backed down from plans to livestream a hack of Zuckerberg's account on Sunday.
The administration said it backed down on rebate rule in an attempt to make "bipartisan progress" on the Hill.
Despite the series of road bumps, Mr. Selvaggio said he would be surprised if his onetime colleague backed down.
Chatterjee had supported a temporary lifeline to coal and nuclear plants, but he's backed down on that more recently.
Though they contested SMART's assertions, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda backed down and agreed to roll back the duty increases.
YouTube adjusted its policy to demonetize videos related to coronavirus, but the company quickly backed down from the move.
Mr. Trump had once considered firing Mr. Mueller, but he backed down after the objection of a senior adviser.
The administration backed down on the trade matter, but Dr. Gottlieb has been forced to compromise on other issues.
The religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack said her boss has not backed down in his dealings with the church.
Despite the administration's previous indications that the President has been open to expanding background checks, Trump has backed down.
Last week Trump backed down from his controversial threat to cut billions of dollars in unused foreign aid funding.
Ultimately, Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, and other Democrats backed down, and the lights stayed on.
Trump had threatened to veto the measure early Friday, but eventually backed down and signed the spending measure. pic.twitter.
But liberals never backed down from the radical healthcare dreams that were dashed by the American people in 2010.
"All the crowing about how they backed down was some of the dumbest things I've ever seen," Lewis said.
Jokic got the ball in the post, backed down Finney-Smith and hit a layup with 256 seconds left.
The president later backed down, saying he did not wish for or predict a war with Iran, Reuters noted.
After Mr. Shaub fired back with a stern 10-page letter rebutting the argument, the White House backed down.
He also co-sponsored legislation that threatened to block it, which became moot after the Obama administration backed down.
Fearing that they would get the blame, Republicans backed down and pulled the Planned Parenthood language from the legislation.
While the government backed down from that legislation, other measures followed, and the protests have continued off and on.
"Ed has never backed down from fights that define our times," it added, before asking for a $27 donation.
There was also turbulence for House Republicans, who backed down on plans to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Now Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, says some of the event's biggest donors have backed down on their promises.
Despite the potential harm they could have on her campaign, Roby hasn't backed down from her 2016 comments about Trump.
Those on the second floor mostly backed down the ladders of firefighters or ones Phuds appropriated from a fraternity house.
No matter what, Chopra has never backed down and continues to stand up for the necessary change needed in Hollywood.
Present says Kris hasn't backed down, so she's just fired off a cease and desist letter to the momager's company.
At the weekend, the territory's leader Carrie Lam backed down over a bill that would have allowed extradition to China.
He hasn't backed down from his controversial position — even as big GOP donors like the DeVos family pulled their support.
When demands are not met, protesters are left wondering when and how to leave without appearing to have backed down.
El Khomri backed down on capping the financial settlements that labor tribunals can impose on employers for breach of obligations.
" Upon hearing Jim Davis' remarks, Texas backed down, saying on Twitter, "Jim Davis is the final authority on Garfield canon.
The White House has also reportedly backed down from demanding money for Trump's promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bustos has met with House members concerned about the DCCC policy adopted last month, but she has not backed down.
The Trump administration later backed down, but ZTE's near-death experience demonstrates how reliant telecom companies are on US technologies.
Following an armed standoff, the federal agents ultimately backed down, citing safety concerns and returned the cattle they had seized.
He backed down during a debate when he said she had a "beautiful face" -- a dubious compliment in that context.
When Israel installed new metal-detectors at the Al-Aqsa mosque in July, Palestinians staged protests and Israel backed down.
But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has not backed down, saying his government will receive the S-2628s in July.
He backed down from his administration's policy, which for days the White House insisted could only end through congressional action.
Eventually, Canonical backed down, after it became clear that the developer community was not the same as the user community.
Last June, Mr. Trump backed down from his demand that Mr. Mueller be fired after Mr. McGahn threatened to quit.
However, in a separate case, he backed down after threatening an Entity List-like punishment for another Chinese company, ZTE.
Poland's leaders had threatened to disregard the ruling, but faced with the prospect of hefty financial sanctions, they backed down.
Puigdemont backed down from an outright declaration of independence during a highly anticipated speech to the Catalan parliament Tuesday night.
But Mexican officials have backed down from many of those initial restrictions, including its refusal to accept women with children.
Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar fans backed down in the final hours to cast their vote for the "electable" candidate.
Mulvaney also tried to join Kupperman's suit but he quickly backed down and later opted against filing his own litigation.
Spring and T-Mobile flirted with a deal in 2014 but backed down after the Obama administration signaled its concern.
President Donald Trump backed down on Wednesday, signing an executive order to keep families together in detention during immigration proceedings.
" Bottom line: "Every time we face this issue," Sanger says, "American presidents sort of backed down and started up a negotiation.
Hardline conservatives have backed down from a threat to imminently force a House vote on impeaching Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The Shadow Brokers had originally tried to sell the stolen tools in an auction, but backed down after receiving no bidders.
When Congress couldn't agree to give it, he backed down, but the threat was enough to get some concessions from Syria.
The IACC backed down on Friday on its decision to allow Alibaba to join, after reportedly being threatened with further departures.
Molins said Abdeslam's told investigators that he planned to blow himself up at the Stade de France but simply backed down.
For a week now, Johnson hasn't backed down, no matter that UFC President Dana White is demanding he fight Dillashaw next.
Earlier Wednesday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said he believed Syria has backed down in the face of the White House's warning.
While the move has repeatedly been criticized for its knee-jerk overreaction and misplaced solution, the government has not backed down.
Instead, he ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, but the president backed down after McGahn threatened to quit.
Once again, Trump backed down from the policy in the face of near-universal condemnation, including from Republican allies in Congress.
Kemp, by then running against Abrams and trying to moderate his hard-won image as a virulent white nationalist, backed down.
Schumer and congressional Democrats backed down out of fear that they were losing public support as based on social media activity.
The government eventually backed down, but the industry is bracing for increased pressure from law enforcement as surveillance debates heat up.
"Illegal immigrants should not have access to driver's licenses," she said in a statement when Spitzer backed down from the plan.
Trump has backed down on previous threats for wall funding in the face of a potential shutdown and declared victory anyway.
Ecuador's government, and others supportive of breast-feeding, backed down from proposing the resolution — which then passed after Russia introduced it.
Amazon opposed the tax, threatening to halt its Seattle expansion if it were adopted, and the City Council ultimately backed down.
Trump also attempted to hold the next G7 summit at his Doral property outside Miami, but backed down after bipartisan criticism.
Facebook hasn't backed down from its fact-checking exemption; YouTube is still a leading platform for conspiracy theorists and climate denial.
Mr. Trump's tweets on Sunday did little to dispel the notion that he had backed down on the election meddling issue.
In part because of pressure from the IMF, which was funding billions of dollars of Ukrainian debt, Mr Poroshenko backed down.
In September it threatened to freeze its Greek investments, which the company made under Wright in 2012, but later backed down.
Instead, Mr. Trump backed down on ideas opposed by the rifle association after an Oval Office meeting with the group's leaders.
On Friday, after Mr. Shaub wrote a long and heavily footnoted letter to Mr. Mulvaney, the White House unexpectedly backed down.
Under pressure from businesses, the Hoosier State backed down somewhat on then-Governor Mike Pence's so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
He reportedly sought last summer to have Mueller fired, but backed down after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
For about 10 days the country had two prime ministers, until Vaz backed down under pressure from the regional bloc ECOWAS.
"It's a very important moment, because power in Algeria has never backed down," said Benjamin Stora, a leading historian of Algeria.
That deal went nowhere, and Trump backed down, saying wall funding could wait until the next round of negotiations in September.
Yet, when faced with a chance to highlight these sorts of arguments by standing by Zimmerman, they backed down almost immediately.
After thousands of public comments denouncing the potential kratom ban, the DEA backed down in October 2016, deferring to the FDA.
The win for farmers, in other words, is real enough, but the win is simply that Trump backed down from his threats.
"Thankfully, President Trump appears to have backed down from his position for billions in direct appropriations for a border wall," Schumer said.
"He knew, he said, "because you're a competitor, you've never backed down from a challenge before, and I'm very proud of you.
Mr. Pruitt also backed down on a proposal to delay implementing smog regulations and another to withdraw a regulation on mercury pollution.
The prime minister backed down from his threat to resign, and Mr Zeman at first declined his request to fire Mr Babis.
Kenya announced the closure of refugee camps last year for the same reasons but backed down in the face of international pressure.
OPINION: Don't give up on the two-state solution The White House later backed down after the Israeli leader softened his comments.
Uber finally backed down, confirming it had suspended the program, (though not before it decided to open a similar shop in Arizona).
Success didn't come easy for Harrison Tang, the CEO and co-founder of Spokeo — but he never backed down from a challenge.
In that case, Uber rolled out a campaign to marshal political and public opposition to the plan, and the city backed down.
It was the first time Trump backed down on any of Daniels's claims, a rare backtrack of any kind for the president.
Still, the United States has not backed down from hiking tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25% on Friday.
In the end, Chaffetz backed down — it wasn't just conservationists complaining about his bill; it was conservative gun owners and hunters too.
Molins said Abdeslam has told investigators that he planned to blow himself up at the Stade de France but simply backed down.
Flake, a strong critic of Trump, has not backed down from the President in the wake of Trump's public attacks against him.
DA NANG — Premier Nguyen Cao Ky backed down tonight [April 5] from a military showdown with anti-government forces at Da Nang.
Realising they were outnumbered and outgunned, Chihuri's police team backed down, allowing Chiwenga to touch down without incident, the security source said.
AT&T attempted to acquire T-Mobile in 2011 but backed down after the Department of Justice sued to block the deal.
Realizing they were outnumbered and outgunned, Chihuri's police team backed down, allowing Chiwenga to touch down without incident, the security source said.
The government has repeatedly backed down in the face of public demonstrations, twice agreeing to relocate a uranium-enrichment plant, for example.
In that case, as in others, the company helped the government where it was able to, and the Justice Department backed down.
To his credit, Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer has not backed down, instead challenging McConnell to affirm the reality of climate change.
President Trump has apparently backed down from his plan to urge states to raise the age to purchase assault weapons to 21.
The DEA had never backed down when using its controversial emergency powers to ban a substance, so the victor has broad ramifications.
Trump backed down on Wednesday afternoon, signing an executive order that aims to halt the practice shortly before he left for Minnesota.
Ms. Lam has not backed down on the extradition bill, and neither she nor the city legislature is likely to buck Beijing.
Tabrizi of the Royal United Services Institute said many in the Iranian government now appeared to believe Mr. Trump had backed down.
The Health Department backed down in 158 of 211 cases in public housing after the authority challenged its finding, the data shows.
However, he backed down after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign rather than carry out the order, the paper reported.
Mr. Trump backed down from that position in a phone call with Mr. Xi on Thursday night, handing China a diplomatic victory.
McGahn then contemplated resigning in protest, but the president ultimately backed down, and he remained the White House counsel until October 2018.
"That's why we haven't changed, we haven't backed down at all, and why we still get in trouble a lot," Portnoy said.
Millions protested in November and December of that year, and strikes paralyzed the country for three weeks until the government backed down.
Congressional GOP leaders backed down and gave him what he wanted – funding for a law that more than half the country opposed.
A prominent Italian minister said on Friday it would be impossible to hold a national election in June unless Renzi backed down.
Rick Scott, but the Florida Democrat hasn't backed down from it, and he has pointed to his July letter sent with Rubio.
When they called Mr. Dickson to tell him of Boeing's plans, he balked at the suggestion and eventually the company backed down.
Eventually officials in Rabat backed down on Thursday, saying they would no longer move to withdraw its troops from global UN missions.
President Ronald Reagan, for example, sought to eliminate the department during the 1980s but backed down amid a lack of support in Congress.
Though Minaj has spoken out publicly about the fight, saying the ordeal was "humiliating", the rapper hasn't entirely backed down from the drama.
They soon backed down and allowed the tanker to continue—but only because it was trailed by the HMS Montrose, a British warship.
New Delhi (CNN Business)PepsiCo has backed down from a controversial fight with Indian farmers it accused of illegally growing its registered potatoes.
But he quickly backed down this month and reiterated his commitment to the longtime agreement in a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Nathan Deal, Spencer backed down on Tuesday night, sending a letter of resignation to Georgia state House Speaker David Ralston, effective July 31.
Less than 24 hours later, the government has backed down and dropped its suit, according to a new legal filing from the company.
In September it backed down from raising interest rates, citing concern over Chinese growth and financial market volatility, before finally acting last month.
He was a former businessman and WWI officer, and though Wallis was taken with him, she backed down after witnessing his happy marriage.
The court ruled against them in September, but whereas Slovakia has backed down, Hungary and Poland have not, and strongly oppose the plans.
He later backed down from that threat, giving Mexico a year to meet his demands or face car tariffs or a border closure.
But they have also said they will support the Republican nominee and have not backed down when asked if that would include Trump.
He backed down a week later, having been nagged by the government of Chad and the leaders of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
That's why Trump, who likes to portray himself as the most macho of leaders, ultimately backed down last month after ordering the strikes.
But Trump has since backed down after his Election Day upset, telling the Times that he doesn't feel strongly about going after Clinton.
A 2018 proposal to hike the entrance fees raised fears that high prices would drive away economically disadvantaged populations — the NPS backed down.
The fate of Congress's opioids bill became a lot clearer Friday after House Democrats backed down in their fierce fight for more funding.
Business Insider reported this week that Goldman has backed down on its aspiration to enter crypto trading due to continued uncertainty around regulation.
The president backed down only after Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, threatened to quit rather than execute Mr. Trump's order.
The government backed down, but it has continued to push for similar measures, drawing protesters back into the streets, albeit in smaller numbers.
On the advice of his aides, Mr. Duterte had previously backed down from his arrest order, saying he would let the courts decide.
The President hasn't backed down on his attacks on McCain, who was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare brain cancer, over a year ago.
Faced with the choice of a fistfight or a duel — or the humiliation of avoiding one — most men backed down or held back.
In the aftermath, both sides backed down from intensifying the conflict, the latest stage of a protracted shadow war between the two foes.
"You backed down pretty quickly and stood up to him about as well as he stands up to Putin," Nixon said to Cuomo.
It's also worth remembering that Mr. Obama backed down partly because he so badly wanted a nuclear deal with Mr. Assad's patron, Iran.
Ms. Banerjee, 64, whose supporters call her "didi" (elder sister) and who cherishes her image as a street fighter, has not backed down.
But when it was suggested that teachers without pupils move to schools that needed them, they staged violent protests and the state backed down.
But Borghi and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte backed down, calling the euro "unrenounceable", helping to calm markets and erasing losses for Italy's FTSE MIB.
But neither side has backed down, with Erdogan invoking Turkey's past of supporting the U.S. in times of need, including America's war in Afghanistan.
In 2017 the government tried to pass laws letting corrupt lawmakers off the hook by emergency decree, but backed down after huge street protests.
Prices backed down 2 percent on Thursday after government data showed a weekly increase of 98 billion cubic feet in U.S. natural gas stockpiles.
Trump also raised questions about Cruz's birthplace early in 2015, but later backed down and said he thought the senator was eligible to run.
Francis, though, did not backed down and called on his flock to reject border security for a "new humanity" during a speech in Poland.
He and his allies, including Mr. Mueller, eventually backed down from their threats to resign in protest after the White House made modest adjustments.
In the end the government backed down: it allowed Wukan to hold unusually free elections and it promised to sort out the land dispute.
The ACLU of Virginia recent backed down when its own speaker was subjected to a heckler's veto from a local Black Lives Matter group.
That caught the White House off guard and, after mulling a few alternatives they didn't really like, the President and his team backed down.
In the past, he has backed down on such threats, but he seems convinced that standing firm on the issue will benefit him politically.
But he added that he had backed down from that position and authorized federal health officials to decide the matter as they saw fit.
The administration did say it was going to use the Defense Production Act more fully earlier this week, but it then abruptly backed down.
Neither side backed down, and the stock market tumbled on Thursday and Friday after Mr. Trump threatened another round of tariffs on Chinese products.
The police backed down, admitting that was true but contending that the pictures were related to a different case that might involve Mr. Golunov.
In a remarkable reversal, Hong Kong's leader backed down after huge protests and suspended a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China and other places.
Mr. Obama floated the idea of an executive order forcing government contractors to disclose payments to outside political groups, but backed down under pressure.
The company had originally planned to set up a tech campus in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, but backed down in 2018 after prolonged community protests.
After Republicans joined in on the criticism, the president backed down on hosting the summit at his resort, two days after the initial announcement.
" On Tuesday, Vick backed down somewhat, saying, "Colin Kaepernick's hair has nothing to do with him not being on an N.F.L. roster right now.
Earlier this month, the French government backed down on raising the retirement age and has agreed to make several other concessions to the unions.
Hal Moskowitz, who worked with Mr. Hansell at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, said his former colleague had never backed down from a challenge.
Justin Fairfax over accusations of sexual assault, but backed down after African-American lawmakers demanded there not be a rush to oust Mr. Fairfax.
Trump almost derailed this by threatening tariffs on Mexico over immigration — but the administration backed down, and Mexico has now overwhelmingly passed the USMCA.
Hardline House conservatives even threatened to force a vote on Rosenstein's impeachment this summer, based on the thinnest of pretexts (though they eventually backed down).
Over nearly 20 years, Wakefield has never backed down, even as dozens of studies have refuted his retracted original, which looked at just 12 kids.
WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration backed down last month on adding a citizenship question to the 22020 census, it didn't just lose the policy fight.
Earlier this year the legislature tried to give its members amnesty for taking undeclared campaign donations, but backed down in the face of popular opposition.
Traditional media also picked up on the story and the FDA backed down, presumably recognizing the ridiculousness of its claim that Kind bars were unhealthy.
And in the insecure mood of winter 2010 after landslide GOP midterm victories, Democrats got scared, backed down, and agreed to a two-year extension.
The deal was supposed to return to the Commons this week for another attempt but the prime minister backed down again, fearing a second rout.
Some punks stuck up for the Casualties but Walraven backed down, canceled the gig and staged a fundraiser for the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton.
Google agreed to lower power levels than what it had first proposed, and in exchange, Facebook backed down from opposing the waiver, according to Reuters.
The FBI never actually backed down — instead it found a third party to do the work — while Apple escaped without ceding the moral high ground.
The upshot, it seems, is that Trump tiptoed up to causing a dramatic crisis with the Justice Department and intelligence agencies ... and then backed down.
Russia threatened to retaliate if we attacked its ally, but the Russians backed down when faced with a strong American president who keeps his word.
Gene himself sort of backed down, saying he grew up viewing drug addicts "as losers," and it's hard for him to see it differently now.
PiS backed down, however, after estimates from the financial regulator and the central bank showed such a move would likely destabilise the whole financial system.
Clinton, turned from the lectern to face the presumptive Democratic nominee, declaring that she "has never backed down" from fighting for the middle class, Mrs.
The Times reported that he backed down after Don McGahn, the White House counsel at the time, warned that it could lead to his impeachment.
In another case, Pruitt backed down on a proposal to withdraw a regulation on mercury pollution after being sued by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
But the New York Times and other outlets report Trump backed down from that plan after facing pushback from vapers, conservative groups and the industry.
The context: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un backed down on a threat to launch missiles toward the U.S. territory of Guam earlier this week.
Under pressure from the country's religious authorities—days after the parliamentary vote, Christian and Muslim leaders paid the president a visit—Mr Koroma backed down.
A group of lawmakers introduced articles of impeachment against Rosenstein in late July, but later backed down in the face of opposition from GOP leadership.
Instead of fighting the suit, the PEI provincial government backed down, citing the charter and the Canada Health Act as reasons they would likely lose.
The president backed down from his administration's policy of splitting migrant families, which for days the White House insisted could only end through congressional action.
Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a cap on for-hire vehicles in 2015, but the city backed down after Uber waged a public-relations campaign.
According to the CBC, Parks Canada reluctantly backed down in June 2015, and began coordinating with the Nunavut government on its dives for the ship.
Mr. Trump sought to have Mr. Mueller fired last June but backed down after his White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, threatened to quit.
After Mr. Sessions told Mr. McGahn that career Justice Department officials had said he should step aside, Mr. McGahn said he understood and backed down.
Mr. Leitsch, in an interview for this obituary in March, said that the lawsuit had not been filed because the liquor authority had backed down.
When President Barack Obama tried to place some limits on 529 college savings accounts, the blowback was so severe that he backed down within days.
The president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada called Mr. Trump to caution against such a precipitous step, and Mr. Trump backed down.
It was only after Mr. McGahn made it known to senior White House officials that he was going to resign that Mr. Trump backed down.
The U.S. and Iran even downed each other's drones, but Trump backed down at the last minute from staging a military strike directly on Iran.
She backed down a challenge from the ultra-liberals who wanted to impeach the president from day one and adopt a left-wing legislative agenda.
Trump had previously threatened to remove U.S. troops from Syria late last year but ultimately backed down after pressure from the Pentagon and Capitol Hill.
He's seemed to have backed down from his harsher positions -- STEPHEN SCHWARZMAN: I think the issue with DACA right now is really a legal issue.
The price of oil rose briefly after the Aramco attack but quickly backed down after the impact on world oil supply looked to be minor.
Mr. Trump has since backed down from his threat to impose tariffs on Brazil and has yet to follow through with new tariffs on Argentina.
Giuliani flirted heavily with running for Senate in 2000 but backed down amid some messy personal issues and the realization that he would likely lose.
Then-House Speaker John Boehner backed down from the GOP budget fight with President Obama after shutting down the government for 16 days in 2013.
Messer made a stand in favor of adopting school vouchers, a controversial issue that jeopardized the bill; Rokita fumed to colleagues until Messer backed down.
Pompeo sought to dispel suggestions that the Trump administration has backed down from demanding the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of the North&aposs nuclear weapons.
Perhaps the president is simply upset that his team backed down to criticism rather than "fighting," or that the good headlines from his speech were spoiled.
Civil society remains strong, and the government responds to public pressure: last year it backed down from a strict abortion law when faced with massive protests.
But she backed down after Ms McKinnon called her a transphobe, pointing out that when trans women win "it's unfair; when we lose, no one notices".
Thanks to strong public opinion in favor of the ZAD, French authorities backed down and allowed the activists to continue to occupy the land — until recently.
"As quickly as refinance activity increased in recent weeks, it backed down again in response to the rise in rates," said Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist.
After President Trump's endorsement of Roy Moore, several prominent Republicans, including Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, backed down from their calls for Moore to step down.
We're told Kayla -- who was apparently dating Soulja -- got in her car, put it in reverse and backed down the driveway, where she clipped the curb.
Johnson testified last week that he wished he made the decision sooner -- before the 2016 election -- but that he backed down after resistance from the states.
The government of Thailand has backed down on a threat to ban Facebook if it did not block content deemed to be illegal in the country.
In an armed standoff on April 12, 2014, along Interstate 15, they confronted federal agents, who ultimately backed down and returned the cattle they had seized.
She backed down after Marc Short, the White House legislative affairs director, and press secretary Sarah Sanders later talked to her, two of the sources said.
Fights between unions and the government are standard fare in France, and presidents in the past have sometimes backed down in the face of large strikes.
Brent prices have since backed down to about $76 a barrel, while U.S. crude is hovering near $65 on OPEC supply concerns and record U.S. output.
In 2016 BLM backed down after the same groups sued the Obama administration over their plans to conduct the testing on horses in the Hines facility.
Neither side has backed down with tough rhetoric, though officials have toed the line, making it clear there is interest in a continued and healthy relationship.
Former President George W. Bush declared a national emergency in 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina but backed down when Congress threatened to block him.
He's talking about Obama's "red line," the president's threat to attack Syrian forces if they used chemical weapons (a threat he backed down from in 2013).
" The company backed down after Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said Tuesday that the company's management was wrong and that they had now "got the message.
As union leaders spoke to the press, port operators backed down on the decision to truck out waste, ceding to the ILWU and community members' demands.
Last year Mr. Macron's predecessor, President François Hollande, backed down from an assault on the code when the unions filled the streets in protest for weeks.
McGahn threatened to resign rather than carry out the order, the Times said, and Trump backed down from his attempt to remove Mueller from the investigation.
Even the Nazis, who in 1941 tried to force Bavarian schools to take down their crosses, had quickly backed down in the face of local ire.
In Brownsville, he said, one never backed down from a fight, because the consequences of backing down were more frightening than those of a mere beating.
McGahn refused and threatened to resign rather than carry out the order, and Trump backed down on the request, according to a Times report in January.
France's CGT union said on Thursday there would be no break in transport strikes over the Christmas period unless the government backed down on pension reform.
For around 10 days the country had two prime ministers until Vaz backed down under pressure from the international community, which said his moves were illegal.
Last year, the White House proposed the same cut, but it backed down in the face of immense pushback from advocates and lawmakers from both parties.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has criticized Uber's rapid expansion for exacerbating traffic, but his administration backed down from a proposed cap on Uber cars in 225.
For one thing, Mr. Trump backed down from his demand that money be included for the wall he wants to build along the border with Mexico.
Trump eventually backed down and signed the bill, but his last-minute change of heart highlighted the precarious state the legislation has been in all week.
The 217-day Cold War-era standoff calmed only when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev backed down against President John F. Kennedy's administration, removing nuclear warheads from Cuba.
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam backed down last month and shelved the legislation, but protestors want it withdrawn completely and are calling on Lam to resign.
He told the court that that is when the kidnap idea was first hatched, but that she backed down after entering into a relationship with another man.
Bundy first made nationwide headlines in 2014 when he had an armed standoff with the government over the land dispute, in which the feds eventually backed down.
Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has backed down quickly after his initial slur against U.S. president Barack Obama resulted in Washington cancelling a meeting scheduled between the two.
The government of Guatemala attempted to close the Guatemalan-Honduran border to the caravan on October 15; after a standoff of several hours, Guatemalan officials backed down.
After insisting rather strongly that his new album, Life of Pablo, would never be available outside of Tidal, it appears that Kanye West has finally backed down.
On Tuesday morning, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared on "Fox and Friends" and seemed to confirm that Trump had backed down on the wall funding demand.
The U.S. central bank lifted borrowing costs four times in 2018, signaled as late as December that more hikes were coming, and then backed down in January.
Or if Trump deemed the election illegitimate, Congress could refuse to agree with him — and do it in a bipartisan and public way — until he backed down.
Flake previously vowed to oppose judicial nominations until he got a vote on a tariffs bill and backed down after leadership gave him a largely symbolic vote.
The Times previously reported that the president sought to have Mueller dismissed last June, but ultimately backed down after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
Campa-Najjar has distanced himself in every way from his grandfather, who died 16 years before he was born, but still, the Hunter campaign hasn't backed down.
Though President Emmanuel Macron has backed down from a proposed gas tax increase, the policy that set off the furor, streets across France remain full of demonstrators.
But after a flurry of behind-the-scenes negotiations this week, most of the government's critics backed down, and by Thursday were prepared to accept the outcome.
And while Ms. Abrams has not backed down from the position, she has been speaking more lately about her desire to find common ground on the issue.
On Wednesday, Trump announced that Iran had backed down and indicated that the US wouldn't pursue further military action, though it will continue to impose new sanctions.
The next month, after additional mass protests and the threat of a general strike, the company backed down, recognizing the union and agreeing to rehire the strikers.
The ruling party backed down after the intervention of the European Union last year, which came in response to an appeal for assistance from the Polish judges.
In his speech, he said, while presidents had backed down from moving the embassy, "this president delivered, because when President Trump makes a promise, he keeps it."
The federal Bureau of Land Management and local authorities backed down in the face off, halted the roundup and returned about 300 head to avoid any violence.
In the end, the government backed down and removed the article, but promised to bring up the issue again under a change in the country's civil code.
The committee previously planned to vote to hold Pearson in contempt for failing to be deposed, but backed down after he agreed to be interviewed April 18.
Democratic leaders at first added some of the progressive demands to the Senate bill, but then backed down after moderate Democrats threatened to take down the amended bill.
Congress backed down from its threat to reimpose a ban on ZTE, a Chinese maker of telecoms equipment, acquiring American semiconductors and other components crucial to its business.
Driving the news: Earlier today, the city's head of police backed down from an earlier attempt to characterize protesters as rioters, according to the South China Morning Post.
Then on Thursday morning, the administration backed down from it push to eliminate prescription drug rebates after concerns grew that killing the rebates would adversely affect senior citizens.
"InfoWars had said it planned to 'free Pepe once and for all,' but it backed down rather than face trial and lose," Furie's lawyer, Louis Tompros, told Vice.
Comstock ran in a blue district and was consistently attacked for her pro-life views, but she remained steadfast on life and never backed down — and she won.
It initially fought the NSA's effort to compel the company to participate in broad surveillance in 2008, and only backed down when threatened with $250,000-per-day fines.
Statscan announced similar plans in 2012 but backed down after Reuters and other news organizations who report on the data to financial clients complained it would be disruptive.
Trump has already backed down on China's most sensitive issue — Taiwan — having first infuriated Beijing by suggesting he might not abide by Washington's long-standing "one China" policy.
Trump backed down from two of his demands this week — money for a border wall and withholding subsidies to help lower-income people — to avert a government shutdown.
It's not clear why, but it's likely that the government chose to follow the lead of countries such as the US, which had backed down from similar schemes.
"Coming in to the start of the third and knowing we're down two, we could have backed down and knew we had the break coming up," Petry said.
In 2003, under President George W. Bush, FWS attempted to make the pay-to-play policy explicitly legal, but backed down after intense backlash from conservationists and scientists.
Gail: You mean the fact that he backed down under pressure and supported a bill that sort of said "But some of our best friends are gay people"?
And if that turns out to be true, it will be for same reason that the Senate has backed down time and again since the beginning of 2017.
Riyadh backed down on one austerity measure last month, restoring civil servants' financial allowances at what one official said was an annual cost of about 15 billion riyals.
Trump has already backed down on China's most sensitive issue - Taiwan - having first infuriated Beijing by suggesting he might not abide by Washington's long-standing "one China" policy.
They only backed down after they lost their appeals and realized their new proposed law would invite further litigation, claiming they were "boxed in" by the courts' rulings.
DOJ gets partial win on protester data: The Justice Department initially backed down on its request for the IP logs of the 1.3 million people who visited DisruptJ20.
Later though, during a weekly meeting between Fillon and conservative lawmakers, Georges Fenech, who instigated the letter, backed down on the demand to convene the party's political bureau.
Since then, Zinke has backed down on his initial beliefs, calling the actual science of climate change into question, and eventually refuting it as a man-made phenomenon.
For months, Democrats had been demanding more robust protections for the children in overcrowded detention centers, but, cornered by moderate Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suddenly backed down.
UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping says Gegard Mousasi ain't nothing but a Twitter tough guy -- because when they got face-to-face, Gegard backed down like a biiiiaaaatch.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has also made moves to insert itself into the distribution of aid, though it recently backed down in one key instance, Mr. Heller said.
The barriers to cross-play support were lowered last year, after Sony eventually backed down on both Fortnite and Rocket League cross-play with a new policy change.
But Nepal held its ground, and China recently backed down, Mr. Sherpa said, apparently in response to a drop in climbers tackling the mountain from the Tibet side.
The government had been considering plans to "re-Polonize" the media, allowing it to take control of TVN, and only backed down after public outcry and diplomatic pressure.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) appears to have backed down in its spat with a trio of Democratic representatives over who can request information from the agency.
However, it backed down in 2014, releasing the livestock to end a standoff with hundreds of armed protesters who came to support the rancher in the Nevada desert.
When the president considered reinstituting torture for the interrogation of terrorism suspects, Mr. Mattis objected and Mr. Trump backed down, saying he would defer to his defense secretary.
Sony previously blocked cross-play for titles like Minecraft and Fortnite, and after significant Fortnite backlash, the company eventually backed down and changed its policies in September 2018.
The vast majority of Trump's 2016 voters were people who also backed Mitt Romney in 2012, and the vast majority of them backed down-ballot Republicans in 2018.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri backed down from a proposed 10 percent tax on wine and increased tax on champagne following a private meeting with Mendoza Governor Alfredo Cornejo.
President Trump agreed to open the government for three weeks amid continuing border-wall negotiations, but he insisted that he hadn't backed down from any of his demands.
The administration backed down amid pushback by the State Department and Pentagon officials, who feared damage to the military alliance with their most important ally in the Pacific.
Former shadow cabinet member Angela Eagle was expected to announce her interest in vying for the Labour leadership, but she backed down Thursday evening, giving no official reason.
Oil prices initially rose on Monday, but backed down after Trump said he spoke to Saudi Arabia's King Salman and was dispatching Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Riyadh.
Orban has backed down after losing cases to the Commission in the European Court of Justice, including on a move to remove senior judges and a data privacy supervisor.
Ashley has backed down after months of refusing to give evidence to the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) select committee about working conditions at his sporting goods chain. (ind.
In the meantime, the government backed down on plans to raise fuel prices and promised to increase cash handouts to the poor and create more jobs in coming years.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's parliament on Monday backed down from its demand for former president Robert Mugabe to answer questions related to diamond mining operations during his time in office.
"I don't want to join the list of all those who have backed down and cost France wasted time," he says, insisting that the CGT cannot "hold France hostage".
When the Alvarez sisters and four Hispanic peers wore "Dump Trump" T-shirts to school, the principal told them to change—officially to "prevent disturbances"—but later backed down.
His election promise of "America First" -- do you get a sense perhaps he's backed down a little from his campaign rhetoric, now that he's had time to settle in?
Brunei sparked a global outcry last month with plans to bring in laws that punished sodomy, adultery and rape with death, including by stoning, although it later backed down.
However, Cummings has since backed down, temporarily postponing a contempt vote and agreeing to schedule Kline, who now works at the Pentagon, for a voluntary transcribed interview on Wednesday.
Read more: Once again, Trump backed down on gun control after talking to the NRADespite his vow, gun-control advocates and Democrats were doubtful Trump would keep his word.
After taking office, he sought to block three Success schools from getting space, but backed down after the network's supporters unleashed $5 million worth of television advertisements attacking him.
The Times report, based on interviews with eight sources, said the President backed down after Mueller's office told Trump's lawyers and advisers that reports about the subpoenas were inaccurate.
"InfoWars had said it planned to 'free Pepe once and for all,' but it backed down rather than face trial and lose," Louis Tompros, one of Furie's lawyers, said.
Even Republicans who thought a special prosecutor was unnecessary now see it as a step in the right direction, and those open to an independent commission have backed down.
The government backed down to public pressure then, but it has continued to pursue policies that would rein in the powers of the courts and prosecutors by other means.
"Clinton backed down because of several reasons, including his deep personal aversion to the use of force," said Bruce O. Riedel, a member of Mr. Clinton's National Security Council.
But on the eve of his trip here, Mr. Trump backed down in the face of hard criticism from the business community and top officials in his own party.
Instead, he ordered Mr. Mueller to be fired, then backed down after the White House counsel refused to carry out the order, The New York Times reported last week.
They have backed down smaller guards in the post, passed and scored over the top of a defense, corralled rebounds that no point guard has a right to reach.
The Department of Justice backed down from its demand that the web-hosting service DreamHost turn over information on 1.3 million visitors to an anti-Trump website,  disruptj20.org.
After Mr. Sessions told Mr. McGahn that he would follow the Justice Department lawyers' advice to recuse himself from all matters related to the election, Mr. McGahn backed down.
Apple even briefly flirted with moving Mac Pro production back to China, as a way of driving home the cost of those tariffs, although the company ultimately backed down.
So fighters of corruption were heartened to see Romanians turn out in the streets in the hundreds of thousands last week, day after day, until the government backed down.
And yet, when Mr. Trump dug in after being criticized for making a norm-shattering comment, something he would go on to do many times, Mr. Letterman backed down.
Europe threatened to target exports from states such as Michigan and Florida — crucial political battlegrounds — and 21 months after levying the tariffs, Mr. Bush backed down and rescinded them.
While the Philippines leader quickly backed down on his bold declaration, China's Xi nonetheless signed 13 bilateral deals with him on their first meeting, including on trade and investment.
Global risk appetite improved, with Hong Kong leading Asian shares higher after the territory's leader, Carrie Lam, backed down on a bill that would have allowed extradition to China.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, has never backed down on his position regarding Kaepernick -- firmly saying any NFL player who doesn't stand for the national anthem should be fired.
Republicans, who said they simply wanted to avoid wasting money on needless special elections, backed down after courts insisted that they set dates for the special elections later this year.
Google has backed down in a spat with the New Zealand government after its email alert system Trends breached a court order suppressing details of a high-profile murder case.
" From Coinage: Top 5 Most Expensive Movie Collectibles He concluded by saying that Fisher will "always be the princess who took command and never backed down, never was in jeopardy.
The New York Times cited four sources, stating that the president backed down from his attempts to remove Mueller last June after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
As for share trading, in late May ESMA partially backed down and said that EU fund managers could continue to trade 227 stocks in London that trade overwhelmingly there now.
The 234-year on Tuesday later backed down from its highs, but it has now punctured 2825 percent, a key level a number of strategists had targeted for year-end.
I've never backed down from anything I've written before now, but maybe progressing in my beliefs and doing better next time is what being a fixer upper is all about.
Trump has not backed down on his unprecedented criticism of Powell, even though the Fed has indicated it will pause interest rate hikes — one of Trump's gripes with the Fed.
He backed down from his threats after Syria agreed to a Russian-brokered effort to eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile — an agreement whose implementation has clearly been less than complete.
Both Emirates and Etihad had shown interest in buying PIA before the government backed down from privatization in 2016, the English-language Express Tribune newspaper reported, citing an unnamed official.
The federal Bureau of Land Management and local authorities backed down in the face-off, halted the roundup of Bundy's cattle and returned about 300 head to avoid any violence.
"Ultimately, the defendant backed down from his insistence on personally carrying out the cross-examination of his victims and allowed his advisory attorney to question the victims," Mr. Montgomery said.
Turkey has not backed down from its purchase and said it should not trigger sanctions as Ankara is not an adversary of Washington and remains committed to the NATO alliance.
France experienced its worst unrest in decades during a failed austerity push when Juppe was prime minister in 1995 and Sarkozy also backed down on reforms when he was president.
His original plan to excise the bank's autonomy came under such sharp criticism that he backed down, but he promptly installed one of his devoted loyalist as the bank's chief.
This is actually shaping up to be a rather nasty primary, with McGrath even hinting that she'd run as an independent if Gray entered the race (she thankfully backed down).
The Journal's report also suggested that federal investigators backed down because they sensed that Equifax didn't believe it had information that Chinese spies would be keen to get hold of.
Cheryl Burke did not minced words when it came to Ian Ziering – her former partner on Dancing with the Stars, but she has since backed down on her harsh remarks.
And in 2011, when the FIFA rule was invoked to ban the poppy, the organization backed down, allowing English players to wear black armbands appliquéd with poppies during a game.
The government backed down then, but protests have become a regular occurrence as the government continues to push to weaken anticorruption laws and the independence of the courts and prosecutors.
I'm grateful because Trump has not backed down in the face of the slipperiness, hypocrisy and dangerous standard-setting deployed by opponents of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
After the government tried to cut bonuses for its employees, it caused such widespread grumbling and a drop in spending that in April King Salman backed down, restoring the perks.
President Nicolás Maduro backed down from demanding that all American diplomats leave the country this past weekend, even as the U.S. and other countries continued to press for new elections.
It has also quietly backed down on a proposal to charge a £68 fee per car for any firm with more than 1,000 vehicles after a backlash from the industry.
A month earlier, several officials said, Mr. Trump actually gave an order to fire Mr. Mueller but backed down after Mr. McGahn threatened to resign rather than carry it out.
But in 2015, his administration backed down from a fight with Uber by abruptly dropping a plan for a cap on the number of Uber vehicles operating within the city.
In April, the government proposed a media law that threatened to cancel the accreditation of journalists who peddled "fake news," but backed down 24 hours later after a massive outcry.
Arpaio has touted "birtherism" in the past, even launching a five-year long investigation into Obama's birth certificate he concluded in 2016 even after Trump backed down from the claim.
The federal Bureau of Land Management and local authorities backed down in the face off, halted the roundup of Bundy's cattle and returned about 300 head to avoid any violence.
As a Democratic candidate, Mr. de Blasio threatened to charge charter schools rent, but he later backed down after charter advocates unleashed millions of dollars in television advertisements attacking him.
Trump had indicated that he did not want to engage in a new Middle East war and even backed down from carrying out a strike on Iran earlier this year.
After last-minute talks in Davos earlier this year, global leaders eventually backed down, postponing any action — either domestic digital taxes or retaliatory tariffs — until early 2021, at the earliest.
While Mr. Bush backed down after the W.T.O. verdict, a Trump administration with an "America First" mentality may be less amenable to a ruling handed down by bureaucrats in Switzerland.
But the matter was resolved over the course of a few days as Democrats backed down, with the threat of a shutdown never moving to the forefront, the people said.
Lastly, despite persistent Iranian grumbling about a perceived lack of American compliance with the JCPOA, Iranian officials have apparently backed down from using the "dispute resolution mechanism" in the accord.
The officers searched his apartment, where he lives with his parents, but backed down after the parents complained that they were searching through things that were not his, he said.
Before the police backed down, nearly 25,000 people had signed up to a Facebook page expressing their intention to take part in a protest march on Wednesday in solidarity with Golunov.
They seem to have been backed down at the end, but these guys were going to introduce articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein the day after Trump's ignominy.
Twitter withdrew its lawsuit against the U.S. government Friday, only a day after filing, after the government backed down from its request for information regarding an immigration-focused, anti-Trump account.
For its part, China hasn't backed down at all: launching new warships, touting new weapons, keeping its forces active in the South China Sea — around Taiwan and beyond — and blasting Washington.
In June 2018 a populist coalition took office seeking to overturn pension reforms and promising to increase public spending, provoking a stand-off with Brussels before Italy backed down in December.
It also tried to push through a law to remove NABU's independence, but backed down in the face of protests from civil-society activists and the IMF, which funds Ukraine's debt.
Now, with celebrities like Justin Bieber calling out Tom Cruise for an MMA fight (even though he later backed down) ... we asked Jake if he's serious about some celebrity fighting action.
Chris Brown just scored a W in his legal battle with his pissed off neighbors -- who, for some reason, backed down and now the LAPD's dropped its disturbing the peace investigation.
Tonga's prime minister on Friday backed down on calls for Pacific island nations to collectively lobby China to forgive their debts, after a source said China had complained about the plan.
Oracle said 'too bad just pay up,'" said the owner, adding that, "after about six months of haggling, I told them I would see them in court and they backed down.
Broner backed down in a big way -- and admitted he only made the video in the first place because he thought Floyd was secretly pitting Davis and Broner against each other.
Yet before Trump backed down through executive order today, the GOP Congress had not blocked him on either front — despite worldwide condemnation layered on top of financial market turmoil over trade.
But when Amazon — widely seen as the main target of the tax — threatened to stop further growth in the city as a result, the council backed down and repealed the tax.
Forces loyal to Mr. Chávez quickly restored order and the coup leaders quickly backed down, but Mr. Chávez returned to power bent on rooting out what he saw as enemies within.
Dartmouth's Daryl Press once pointed out to my colleague Dylan Matthews that Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev repeatedly threatened to eject the American-led forces occupying West Berlin, but he backed down.
All three of Mr. Macron's predecessors promised to reform France's antiquated welfare-state model and bloated civil-service sector, but all backed down before waves of national strikes and street protests.
Global equities resumed their record rally this week after the U.S. and Iran backed down on further military action, and hopes of an initial U.S.-China trade deal kept investors optimistic.
After a series of attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf and the downing of an American drone, Trump threatened fire and fury that same month and then abruptly backed down.
We got two glaring examples of this in just 48 hours, when the Bernie Sanders campaign let one attack on Joe Biden's campaign fade away and backed down completely on another.
According to The New York Times, Trump tried to force McGahn to fire Mueller as special counsel last summer but ultimately backed down when McGahn refused to carry out the order.
Collins said on Twitter that investigations into Cambridge Analytica should be undertaken by "proper authorities" such as the ICO after it was revealed that Facebook had backed down from its audit.
And the U.S. fought and lost this battle in 22019 when President Ronald Reagan opposed Soviet natural gas pipelines to Europe but backed down when Europe stood fast against U.S. sanctions.
President Donald Trump demanded the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller in June, according to the New York Times, and backed down only when his White House counsel threatened to quit.
"Infowars had said it planned to 'free Pepe once and for all,' but it backed down rather than face trial and lose," Furie's pro bono counsel, Louis Tompros, said in a statement.
After a debuting the 3D camera for the Xbox 360, the company started shipping the Kinect with its new Xbox One — but ultimately backed down making it mandatory part of the purchase.
Activists, however, are wary of Telegram's rise, noting that initially the Iranian government threatened to block it, but then backed down, raising suspicions that Telegram accepted the government's surveillance and censorship requests.
Polls at first showed that the Dutch overwhelmingly sympathised with the farmers, and four provincial governments have backed down, abandoning the plans they had drawn up to meet the government's new recommendation.
Documents obtained from the FTC under federal open-records laws reflect that the agency considered, then backed down from putting Zuckerberg directly under order during its last settlement with Facebook in 2011.
"I've never backed down from anything I've written before now, but maybe progressing in my beliefs and doing better next time is what being a fixer upper is all about," Austin said.
He backed down dramatically from his campaign promises and instead signed an executive order dominated mainly by moderate refugee restrictions and temporary provisions aimed directly at limiting immigration from jihadist conflict zones.
Highlights Trump backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the U.S.-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad.
He then unilaterally backed down from these threats (a better idea than following through on them) and then started to portray his own decision to back down as a major diplomatic triumph.
Aside from being outspoken, unapologetic citizen politicians who have never backed down from a position -- no matter how appalling or inaccurate -- you sense they share a delight in offending the politically correct.
A staunch denier of climate change, he hasn't backed down from the views he expressed in an oft-quoted 2012 tweet suggesting that global warming is a hoax invented by the Chinese.
While House Republicans backed down Tuesday from their effort to tighten oversight of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), the complaints about the office are unlikely to subside in the new Congress.
The main public sector union has backed down from plans for a national strike, citing a volatile security situation, but four more teachers' unions said they will join next week's planned stoppage.
Papadopoulos's wife, Simona Mangiante, had signaled in recent weeks that her husband was mulling walking away from the plea deal with Mueller, though she backed down from those suggestions late last week.
Before Trump pulled the plug on the shutdown, he backed down over whether he would be able to deliver the State of the Union address in the House as planned on Tuesday.
Trump previously threatened a government shutdown if a spending bill did not include $5 billion to pay for the border wall, but the White House backed down from those demands on Tuesday.
Democrats backed down from their threats to block the bill after failing to guarantee health benefits for some 21625,2900 miners on the verge of losing them at the end of the year.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Tuesday said the Census Bureau had started the process of printing the census questionnaires without the citizenship query, giving the impression that the administration had backed down.
She prepared a "mega-sarcastic" statement to release in the event that a publication wrote about her transition without her consent, Ms. Wachowski said, but each time, the media outlet backed down.
The White House has backed down from the president's insistence that a new deal to fund the government and avoid a shutdown has to hinge on $5 billion dedicated to wall funding.
But he backed down Saturday evening, tweeting that the measure would "not be necessary," and saying he would direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a travel advisory instead.
When North Korea backed down on a threat to fire a missile into the waters off Guam, an American territory in the Pacific, Mr. Trump acknowledged the move with a respectful tweet.
The GOP leader backed down from an aggressive timetable and new restrictions on evidence in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, changing course after protests from senators like Republican Susan Collins of Maine.
Mr. Trump had wanted money in the spending deal to go toward the wall, but he backed down — a crucial concession that helped smooth the path for congressional negotiators completing the deal.
But that confidence grew more complicated Thursday night after the explosive revelation that Trump attempted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last summer and backed down only after McGahn threatened to quit.
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia backed down on changes to its pension system on Friday as parliament reinstated a retirement age of 65 after leading trade unions staged protests against a rise to 67.
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia backed down on changes to its pension system on Friday as parliament reinstated a retirement age of 65 after leading trade unions staged protests against a rise to 67.
A group of Senate Democrats who threatened to delay a crucial government funding bill to win concessions for retired minors backed down Friday evening and pledged not to shut down the government.
France in particular hasn't backed down; its finance minister insisted the tariffs were "not worthy of an ally," then warned US officials of likely retaliatory moves, possibly from the broader European Union.
"I'm a fighting man through and through and I've never backed down from anyone in my life and I was certainly not going to back down from fighting this dispute," he said.
Pramila Jayapal, a freshman Democrat from Washington, has heard all three of these condescending remarks from male GOP colleagues since arriving in Congress — but she hasn't backed down from any of them.
They have backed down-ballot winners everywhere from the Virginia to Pennsylvania and Chicago -- successes that have made it easier to recruit and attract activists less inclined to engage in party politics.
Though Trump reportedly backed down from his more extreme ideas, his frustration resulted in a purge of immigration officials at DHS, beginning with Nielsen at the top and working its way down.
"Salah Abdeslam today during questioning by investigators affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the State de France and that he had backed down,'" Molins told reporters.
Why it matters: The fight over border wall funding has been a long time coming, but Trump has backed down before after threatening a shutdown over the summer and before the midterm elections.
Schiff cited reports that Trump threatened to fire Mueller in 2017 after reports he was trying to get records from Deutsche Bank but backed down after his lawyers received the assurances from Mueller.
Project Zero's official policy is to offer only 90 days before going public with the news, but as more companies joined, Zero seems to have backed down, more than doubling the patch window.
I tried using the soundcheck feature by practically yelling into Studio Spire's mic while holding it right in front of my face, and it accurately backed down the input to a reasonable level.
And, from the start of the hearing, he offered his explanation for why he sought to inform Congress of a re-opening of the Clinton investigation -- and never backed down off that message.
Gore tells Motherboard that a member of Trump's campaign threatened legal action unless she removed the work, though she hasn't backed down, making a version of it available for download on her website.
On Thursday evening, The New York Times reported that Donald Trump in June 2017 tried to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, but backed down after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
Trump sparked the longest government shutdown in U.S. history last December in a bid to pressure Congress into funding this wall, but backed down in response to the cascading political and economic damage.
He used an interview with the British tabloid The Sun to bash Prime Minister Theresa May, and boost her rival Boris Johnson, but when in the same room with her, he backed down.
" Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said during a speech on the Senate floor, "Thankfully, President Trump appears to have backed down from his position for billions in direct appropriations for a border wall.
By late January, the president backed down and agreed to re-open the roughly one-quarter of the government that had closed and called for a congressional committee to hammer out a plan.
The crypto market is down significantly today, practically across the board of all coins, following a report that claims Goldman Sachs has backed down on plans to start a dedicated cryptocurrency trading desk.
The president hasn't backed down from his tariffs plan, but he raised the prospect that some nations could be spared (by way of pressuring Canada and Mexico on a new Nafta trade treaty).
In the end, perhaps heedful of Mr. Netanyahu's warnings against bringing down one of the most right-wing governments Israel has known, a move that could have had unpredictable consequences, they backed down.
While Mr. Navarro backed down from his attack, Mr. Trump did not, continuing on Tuesday to accuse Mr. Trudeau of acting in bad faith and trying to take advantage of the United States.
But it backed down after a backlash; don't be surprised if the event is more contentious than in years past, or if typically neutral artists, like the show's host, Brad Paisley, turn political.
Almost as soon as the election was over, the government partly backed down, with a new science minister, Greg Hunt, declaring that climate analysis would be a "bedrock function" of the research agency.
The US appears to be renewing its lobbying efforts to get the UK to ditch Huawei after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo initially backed down on his threats to sever intelligence-sharing ties.
Mario M. Cuomo, similarly sought to add members to the board in 1983 to gain a majority, but he backed down after Mayor Edward I. Koch and suburban officials rose up in opposition.
When the president's spokesman, Sean Spicer, floated a new theory that Mr. Obama had enlisted British eavesdroppers for the illicit job, British officials indignantly denied it, and the White House quickly backed down.
Schiff has not backed down in the wake of the Mueller summary, saying his committee will continue its investigation and that Congress and the public still need to see the full Mueller report.
L) said it would pay up to 14 million pounds ($19.25 million) to compensate holders of its preference shares who sold out before the company backed down on a plan to cancel them.
He impressed Scheyer and the rest of the Duke coaching staff in his first scrimmage when he took on some of the best Duke had to offer, including Tatum, and never backed down.
In the brief photo opportunity that started their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the fractious G7 summit, Trump followed Trudeau's diplomatic introduction by joking that Trudeau had backed down on retaliatory tariffs.
This isn't the first time that the company has backed down: earlier this year, it sued the city of San Francisco to block a law that would require hosts to register with the city.
But Sanders has not backed down from the attack line, and his campaign has pointed to "lobbyists and bundlers for the industry" who have donated to Clinton and donations to super PACs supporting Clinton.
However, an attempt to alter the balance of the Supreme Court by sacking all judges aged 65 or over failed after the government backed down following an injunction from the European Court of Justice.
But top White House lawyer Don McGahn said he'd quit rather than carry it out — and Trump backed down, according to a blockbuster story by the New York Times's Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that Trump ordered White House counsel Donald McGahn to fire Mueller in June but backed down after McGahn threatened to resign rather than carry out the order.
The group backed down only after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fumed and Heller, who might be the most vulnerable Republican up for re-election next year, indicated he would keep an open mind.
Venezuela's president and Supreme Court backed down Saturday from an unprecedented move to strip congress of its legislative powers that had sparked widespread charges that the South American country was no longer a democracy.
The IRGC forces backed down when the Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose positioned itself between the Iranian ships and the tanker, turning its guns on the Iranian forces and ordering them to turn away.
ASUNCION/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Paraguayan lawmakers backed down on their threat to impeach President Mario Abdo on Thursday after Brazil and Paraguay canceled an energy deal that sparked controversy and threatened to destabilize his government.
Although the government watered down some of the measures — removing, for instance, a mechanism to cap payouts to dismissed workers — it never backed down to pressure from those who wanted the bill scrapped entirely.
Throughout her life, she never backed down—and in every interview I've seen or read, she stood by her statement at the White House despite being forced out of the limelight for several years.
Neither Cora nor Nevin backed down Thursday from their confrontation the night before, when Cora, from the dugout railing, drew a box with his hand and waved for Nevin to get back in it.
President Trump backed down from his earlier suggestion that the U.S. could go back to work by April 210, saying on Sunday that social-distancing guidelines would now remain in place until April 2000.
Here's what you need to know: • President Trump demanded last June that Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, be dismissed, but backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign.
Infantino had wanted to include 12 European teams in the inaugural event but eventually backed down amid continued opposition from UEFA, which has grudgingly dropped its objections to the concept of the expanded tournament.
Ken Jennings shot ahead early in the match with a Daily Double asking him to name the 93-33 crisis that ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law.
"They were never allowed to enter the nursing home," she said in a video statement posted by the Gay Men's Health Crisis in 21969, recalling how the city had backed down to local pressure.
Support staff and family members of diplomats were reportedly sent home a month ago after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered U.S. diplomats to leave the country, a demand from which he later backed down.
He noted that the US has come close to that scenario in the past, but that in just about every case either the president or the Court backed down before an explicit violation occurred.
Prices have since backed down to their lowest since April following a punishing October sell-off in global financial markets, weakening oil demand forecasts and increases in output from OPEC, the United States and Russia.
According to a Friday report from Reuters, it even went so far as to try and name him to a diplomatic position in Russia but backed down after Britain refused to grant Assange diplomatic immunity.
I can say that he has "potentially" an open mind simply because he has married outside of his race, backed down off of his Hawaii land controversy, and recently changed the mission statement of Facebook.
He announced that North Koreans in Malaysia—of whom there are perhaps as many as 1,000, many doing dirty jobs such as mining—would in turn be prevented from leaving until the regime backed down.
The threat of a shutdown eased somewhat when President Trump backed down from demanding that border wall funding be included in the spending bill that Congress must pass by Friday to keep the government running.
In the end, the brother backed down, and according to Coy, in what struck me as an incredible touch, Chhonn had offered to put him on retainer—$50 a month to keep his mouth shut.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed down and abandoned the policy that was aimed at immigrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad.
Some see him as a traitor who "crumbled under pressure", after he backed down from contested parts of Indiana's RFRA, a bill which was pilloried by activists, media pundits and Democratic politicians as anti-LGBT.
Crude prices backed down after Trump's remarks Tuesday about a potential path forward with France, but rose toward three-year highs on Thursday after Macron's comments to reporters renewed fears of supply disruptions from Iran.
Trump, who has repeatedly blasted the special counsel's probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia as a "witch hunt," reportedly backed down last June after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
"We are delighted that Google finally backed down and deleted a dangerous app that targeted LGBTQ youth with toxic messages of guilt and shame," said Truth Wins Out executive director Wayne Besen in a statement.
But he later backed down, agreeing to appear behind closed doors on the conditions that the transcript would be released as soon as possible and he would be free to speak about the interview afterward.
Former First Lady Laura Bush compared it to Japanese-American internment during World War II. So intense was the criticism that Trump backed down from the policy and signed an executive order to curb separations.
Trump's tweet came after days of reports that the White House had backed down from plans for the president to visit the U.K. amid threats of heavy protest from British citizens critical of his policies.
For a few fleeting moments, I entertained the idea of writing this review on the thing, but almost immediately backed down, when I found it difficult to type even a sentence right the first time.
In setting the hearing, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, backed down from a committee vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination, planned for this Thursday, and pushed a confirmation once seen as inevitable into limbo.
Flake has not backed down from his criticism of Trump, slamming the president this week for blaming "both sides" for the violence after white supremacist groups clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton was in a broadly similar position to Sanders — hopelessly behind in the delegate race but vowing to fight to the convention — and she backed down when the voting was done.
To be sure, the Obama administration also quietly backed the FBI, but it never called for a boycott, and the FBI backed down after saying it had found another way to get into the phone.
While Apple eventually backed down, according to the New York Times, Russian officials reviewing Kapersky's complaint "concluded that Apple had rejected the app, which it had previously approved, and set unclear requirements for app developers."
Brent crude recently broke $86 a barrel and prices initially rose Monday after the Saudi statement, though they backed down on news that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was being dispatched to Riyadh for talks.
Trump has called climate change a "Chinese hoax," appointed climate denier Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, asked for the names of climate change workers from the Energy Department (though he later backed down).
Special counsel Robert Mueller President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but backed down when the White House counsel threatened to quit over the demand, the New York Times reported Thursday.
OTTAWA, June 22 (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal government avoided a battle over its budget bill on Thursday as the Senate backed down over proposed changes, but standoffs with the unelected upper house may become the new normal.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday that President Trump has not backed down from his claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, despite several members of Congressional intelligence committees saying there is no evidence.
And while Republicans eventually backed down from their plan after being confronted by overwhelming outrage from their constituents, the American people still got a glimpse into the dysfunction and partisanship that could be headed our way.
On Friday Trump backed down from imposing the tariff, saying Mexico had agreed to help stem the illegal border traffic, but made clear he will go back to the plan if Mexico does not fully cooperate.
The yields on Italian bonds have tempered since last month when the government backed down in a confrontation with the European Commission over its spending plan, which would have broken European Union rules on debt limits.
When the government backed down on April 12, 2014, a segment of rural Westerners long angered by restrictions on federal land — as well as perceived abuses by federal law enforcement officials — hailed it as a victory.
Robert S. Mueller III threatened to resign as F.B.I. director during President George W. Bush's administration if a secret surveillance program he considered illegal were reauthorized, and Mr. Bush backed down rather than risk a scandal.
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, elected last year, has backed down from his country's insistence that China abandon the shoals at the heart of the tribunal's decision, preferring instead to accept significant Chinese economic assistance.
Trump made the same threat during a funding battle in April but backed down when Congress passed a last-minute deal that included money for stepped-up border security but no funds to build a wall.
That would allow Mr. Trump to say he had never backed down from his fight with congressional Democrats or abandoned his pledge to build the wall even if the construction became tied up in legal challenges.
Austria has backed down from deploying troops and armored vehicles to patrol its border with Italy, a day after threatening to do so amid growing tensions in Europe over a surge of migrants arriving across the Mediterranean.
Democratic leaders initially pushed to amend the Senate version to include some of the initial provisions they were seeking but ultimately backed down after moderate Democrats threatened to tank the amended Senate version on the House floor.
Over the weekend, Trump backed down on the plan to bring world leaders to Doral in Florida next year after Republicans were put in the position of defending a move that represented a glaring conflict of interest.
As Pai points out, most wireless carriers and phone manufacturers have backed down on that in recent years and offered access to FM. "Apple is the one major phone manufacturer that has resisted doing so," Pai says.
Director Hayao Miyazaki has once again backed down on his plan to end production at Japan's famed Studio Ghibli, the home of memorable movies including Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, and many more.
Now that the Federal Reserve has backed down from its initially hawkish plans for hiking short-term interest rates, it has effectively paved the way for stocks to head higher, giving investors a "green light," Cramer said.
The chairman of the House intelligence committee has backed down from his dramatic assertion that Donald Trump and his aides were "monitored," by U.S. spies — a claim the Republicans have cited this week in fundraising emails. Rep.
WELLINGTON/SYDNEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Tonga's prime minister on Friday backed down on calls for Pacific island nations to collectively lobby China to forgive their mounting debts, after a source said Beijing had complained about the plan.
The escalation provoked a clash with the Supreme Court, nearly causing a constitutional crisis before Mr. Duterte backed down, and it has raised questions about the list, a McCarthyesque device of uncertain origin and unencumbered by evidence.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hasn't backed down in the past from voicing his issues with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, so it comes as little surprise that Dorsey had something to say about Facebook's new all-caps logo.
Mr. Trump backed down from his earlier pledge to close a loophole that permits private equity managers to pay taxes on the bulk of their income at rates that are roughly half of ordinary income tax rates.
Sean Hannity of Fox News, who this week delivered Mr. Moore an ultimatum to answer for allegations of sexually predatory behavior, backed down on Wednesday night, telling his audience that Alabama voters — not him — should ultimately decide.
Italian newspapers said on Friday 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio had demanded Tria's resignation unless he backed down — reports that pushed government bond yields higher on fears of political instability in the eurozone's third largest economy.
Another example is when Apple built screentime controls into iOS, which was around the same time that it started cracking down on third-party apps that offered similar functionality (although Apple later backed down from these changes).
"It is good news for fans that Jim and Johnny backed down in court today, but I'm afraid it's just the beginning," Adam Streisand, a lawyer for Jeanie Buss, said in an email to The Associated Press.
While S&P eventually backed down (a government investigation helped persuade them), if this occurred again, but with more credit agencies, and they don't back down, government cost for debt could rise, causing damage to the economy.
When he looked like he might compromise and support a bill that provided far less money for the wall than he asked for, conservatives like Ann Coulter excoriated him, describing him as "gutless," and he backed down.
Not anymore On The Money: Slowing economy complicates 2020 message for Trump | Tech confronts growing impact of coronavirus | Manufacturing rises after five-month contraction MORE, but the administration backed down after a Supreme Court ruling blocked it.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the U.S.-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad.
Although the Department of Justice backed down from its original order for Microsoft to split into two companies after Microsoft appealed its case and the Bush administration reshuffled the agency, Lynn says the case did have an impact.
"The worry is if Trump really thinks Kim backed down (he did not) because of Trump's fire and fury threat (no evidence of that), then Trump believes threats work," Vipin Narang, a nuclear expert at MIT, told me.
Trump backed down on his pledge to label China as a currency manipulator on his first day in office, while early in his presidency he quickly agreed to honor the "one China" policy that Beijing considers a necessity.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main public sector union has backed down from plans for a national strike, citing the volatile situation after security forces cracked down on protesters this month, but teachers will go ahead with a work stoppage.
This one reported that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Special Counsel Bob Mueller, but backed down when White House Counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit—a somewhat troubling near-miss for the integrity of American institutions.
I also had bruises on my throat but saw it as a victory because I hadn't backed down, I knew I was right, and he'd had to resort to violence because he couldn't think of a proper argument.
"The FRC have backed down on their original proposal that chairs should be independent throughout their term of office, rather than simply on appointment as the current code states," said Alex Beidas, a partner at Linklaters law firm.
As Western countries have mounted more strident criticism of the camps, China has not backed down on what it says is a highly successful de-radicalization program in a region that has been plagued with intermittent ethnic violence.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan backed down from a threat to paralyze the capital on Wednesday, a move likely to ease tension that has spilled over into violence in the run-up to the planned protests.
President Daniel Ortega, who is been in power for 11 years, backed down a few days later, but the government's heavy-handed repression of the protests and the rising death toll ignited a national movement demanding Ortega's resignation.
READ: Doctors keep dying in Wuhan and Beijing Is still trying to silence them Despite widespread criticism of his initial tweets, Zhao has not backed down, posting what he says is further evidence to back up his claim.
M.B.S. has a few very extreme advisers who keep telling him to follow the "China model" — China asserted itself in the South China Sea, the world complained, China responded to get lost, and eventually the world backed down.
Moscow — An annual ceremony to commemorate victims of repression under Stalin proceeded Monday after Moscow city officials backed down from a decision to bar it from its traditional site, a memorial near the headquarters of the former KGB.
According to the Washington Post, Pompeo has long insisted that Trump's well-understood desire to pull out of the Middle East has emboldened Iran — and that this was exacerbated when Trump backed down from the planned June strike.
His 2014 film, the dystopian thriller "Snowpiercer," narrowly avoided studio-mandated editing; its American distributor, the Weinstein Company, wanted to shave off 20 minutes, and backed down only after test audiences responded more favorably to Mr. Bong's cut.
The New York Times broke the news Thursday evening that he had ordered his staff to fire the special counsel investigating him and his team, and then backed down when the White House lawyer refused to do so.
The cellular phone companies Sprint and T-Mobile flirted with a merger in 2014, but backed down when the Obama administration signaled concerns about further consolidation in the industry, which already is dominated by a few big players.
This would result in a 95 percent cut to the anti-drug office's budget, Politico reported — an effort OMB initially proposed last year but backed down after it faced immense backlash from advocates and lawmakers from both parties.
But after a series of protests against local officials in Wukan in 2011, when government offices were ransacked, authorities eventually backed down, allowing the village to hold open elections that became a beacon for democratic hope in China.
Despite the EU warnings and market turmoil that increased Rome's debt servicing costs, Italy's eurosceptic government has not backed down from its plan to increase its budget deficit to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) next year.
On December 4th the leader who vowed not to yield to the street, and has used this resolve to push through reforms over the past 18 months, backed down over a planned increase to the green tax on fuel.
Eventually, Video Professor backed down, though Scherer—who claims that less than one-half of one percent of customers ever complained—argues that some of the actual targets of the company's legal strategy were competitors acting in bad faith.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump originally vowed to scrap the nuclear accord, describing it as "the worst deal ever negotiated" but later backed down, saying he would "police that contract so tough they (the Iranians) don't have a chance".
It was last month that the FBI backed down from its legal battle with Apple over whether the company should write software to let investigators access encrypted data on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.
"Trump has not backed down in the face of the slipperiness, hypocrisy and dangerous standard-setting deployed by opponents of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court," New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens wrote earlier this month.
Zuckerberg backed down on the claims, though many on the island suspect that he continued to quietly bankroll a retired Hawaiian professor, Carlos Andrade, who continued legal proceedings in an attempt to secure control of some of the parcels.
Mr. Trump backed down and accepted a measure reopening the government for three weeks, but negotiations in the interim have made no more progress toward winning money for his wall — and the government could close again on Feb. 15.
In remarks to reporters, Shulkin backed down from an earlier defense against the OIG report, which found his chief of staff Vivieca Wright Simpson had doctored an email to allow Shulkin's wife to accompany him on the European trip.
The cartel of oil-producing nations backed down in November 6.63 and enacted production cuts amid pressure from their own members over low prices - which had plunged to below $26.6 earlier that year from more than $24.3 a barrel in 22.6.
After years of pushing for a ban on the international trade of polar bear parts—in China, a good quality pelt can still fetch up to $20,000—it recently emerged that the US has quietly backed down from its campaign.
Sir Ranulph's passionate condemnation of the sport comes as the new Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom, whose brief bid for the premiership included support for lifting the fox hunting ban, apparently backed down from an expected announcement to pursue the repeal further.
Until the FBI backed down from its battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it seemed the agency had chosen a near-perfect case on which to make its stand against encryption.
The government backed down last month on its attempt to force Apple to unlock the San Bernardino iPhone, but it's not giving up its fight to compel the tech giant to cooperate in other cases, specifically a case in New York.
While low-level democratic experiments have been tried in villages across China, Wukan's took place in the glare of both domestic and international publicity - and marked a rare moment when Communist Party officials backed down in the face of protest.
But that is a poor foundation on which to base a presidency, and it leaves the public ignorant of whether the president has been quietly curbed, or whether his staff has backed down, and so his presidency is out of control.
Harris' proposal follows plans by several of her Democratic rivals to lower drug costs, an issue they are keen to exploit after Republican President Donald Trump backed down this month from a policy aimed at getting drug companies to lower costs.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan backed down from his threat to shut down the capital on Wednesday, vowing instead to hold a celebratory rally about a Supreme Court decision to pursue a case linked to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
A big moment in these negotiations was when Trump backed down from two of his demands last week on money for a border wall and withholding subsidies to help lower-income people buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
During the tense confrontation, which stretched across several days before the BLM backed down out of concern for the safety of their employees, Ammon Bundy was tased after he allegedly kicked a police dog during one engagement with federal officials.
EBay had similar concerns about the image and tried to block Gore from selling the original rendering (uncensored, with full frontal nudity) on the site, but eventually backed down, agreeing that it falls under the "art" category which does allow nudity.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that Justice and state legislators reached a deal  to provide a 5 percent pay raise for all teachers and state employees after Republicans in the state Senate backed down from their opposition to salary increases.
JERUSALEM — The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel appeared to have averted collapse on Monday — at least for now — after a hawkish coalition partner backed down from a threat to defect, which probably would have forced early elections.
The most recent example was when Mr. Trump backed down from a vow to close the border with Mexico, instead saying he would give one of the United States' most essential trading partners a year to deal with the migrant crisis.
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has backed down from his order to arrest a senator who is a leading critic of his war on drugs, his spokesman said Friday, just as the lawmaker was poised to be arrested in his Senate office.
Since his election, he has backed down from contentious territorial disputes with Beijing — last week, he halted a construction project in the South China Sea that brought Chinese complaints — despite an international ruling early in his presidency that backed the Philippines.
WASHINGTON — The White House unexpectedly backed down Friday in a confrontation with the government's top ethics officer, announcing it will publicly disclose waivers that have been quietly handed out since January to let certain former lobbyists work in the administration.
Trump backed down after that and this week the speaker and the President agreed to hold the speech on Tuesday, which comes after the President signed legislation last week to end what had become the longest shutdown in US history.
The only reason an all-out war did not break out over the weekend is because the Kurdish Regional Government backed down when faced with vastly superior forces, reportedly led in person by the commander of Iran's Quds Force, Maj. Gen.
While low-level democratic experiments have been tried in villages across China, Wukan's took place in the glare of both domestic and international publicity, and marked a rare moment when Communist Party officials backed down in the face of protest.
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Saturday backed down from demanding that all American diplomats leave the country this weekend, even as the United States and allied nations continued to press for regime change in the South American nation.
In recent months, Ms. Choe has become the North's main spokeswoman, accusing Washington of "gangster-like" demands and warning that Mr. Kim might no longer be interested in talking to Mr. Trump unless the United States backed down on sanctions.
"Salah Abdesalam today during questioning by investigators affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France and that he had backed down'," Francois Molins told reporters, adding that Abdeslam's initial statements should be treated with caution.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not backed down from the planned purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defense system that the United States has said would compromise the security of stealth F-35 fighter jets, which Turkey also plans to buy.
The FBI asked a court to force Apple to develop custom software to help unlock the phone, which was used by San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook, but later backed down when an unnamed party showed the FBI how to access the device. Rep.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not backed down from the planned purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defence system that the United States has said would compromise the security of stealth F-35 fighter jets, which Turkey also plans to buy.
HARARE, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's umbrella public sector union has backed down from plans for a national strike, an official said on Thursday, citing the volatile situation in the country after this month's violent protests were met by a brutal security crackdown.
Farmers who have been blocking motorways across the country sporadically for days in protest at plans to cut tax breaks for farming as well as pensions said they would escalate action and bring the country to a standstill unless Tsipras backed down.
"On this anniversary of the greatest Witch Hunt in American history, I am asking you to renew your Sustaining Membership for the 2018 year to show the witch hunters that *NOT A SINGLE PATRIOT* backed down from our fight," the email reads.
"The only way to avoid the trade war, and make life better for everyone, at least create conditions under which it can be made better, is for Trump to back down on that, but he has never backed down on anything," he said.
Trump has backed down from threats to collapse Affordable Care Act markets by withholding subsidies, to unilaterally withdraw from NAFTA, to respond to North Korean taunting by launching a nuclear first strike, and to void the global powers agreement governing Iran's nuclear program.
From China to Saudi Arabia to Qatar, Trump has either backed down or changed course on holding countries accountable for human rights abuses and other bad behaviors solely because of the money they spend — or say they'll spend — in the United States.
"For the first time since Donald Trump entered the political fray," he wrote, "I find myself grateful that he's in it" because "Trump has not backed down in the face of the slipperiness, hypocrisy and dangerous standard-setting" by opponents of Judge Kavanaugh.
Zingaretti did initially favour an election, as Salvini had hoped, but he backed down and entered coalition talks with 5-Star because he feared a revolt by PD lawmakers still loyal to Renzi, who had picked them as candidates at the last election.
He was raised in rural poverty — his father drove a motorcycle pedicab and his mother was a fish vendor — and made his way up the chain of command by earning a reputation as a soldier who never backed down from a fight.
BUCHAREST, Romania — After five straight days of spirited mass protests, and predictions that a half-million or more people might take to the streets on Sunday, Romania's month-old government backed down Saturday and withdrew a decree that had decriminalized some corruption offenses.
When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence struck a cease-fire with Turkey last month, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell backed down from his threat to introduce a resolution demanding Trump withdraw his invitation to Erdogan for a visit.
Emanuel Cleaver, a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, pushed inside the meeting to hold a leadership vote December 1, but after it became clear that the majority of her colleagues wanted more time Pelosi backed down and set the vote for November 30.
News Analysis JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed down under pressure before, but rarely in such a spectacular fashion as he did on Tuesday when he reneged on a deal with the United Nations to resettle thousands of African asylum seekers in Western countries.
So it's noteworthy that, on Saturday evening, two days after making the announcement, Trump backed down: ....Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020.
Unknown to the United States, the Soviets had intended to leave tactical nuclear missiles in Cuba; but when Fidel Castro so misbehaved toward the Soviets after they backed down, Moscow decided it could not trust the Cuban regime with weapons as powerful as these.
Some informed observers think the rising went off at half-cock: it had been planned for another day, with the support of senior officers, but was brought forward because the regime was about to arrest Mr Guaidó and the coup plotters then backed down.
In fact, Schiff has not backed down from his charge that the contacts between Trump's team and Russia did add up to collusion -- and it's a point that Schiff is likely to try to hammer home with the public during the second Mueller hearing.
Other Republican leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have been less eager to endorse an accused predator, though McConnell has backed down from his stance that Moore would be investigated and potentially expelled from the Senate if he won the December 12 election.
Trump hasn't backed down or apologized for his remarks, though fellow Republicans like 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.) have condemned them.
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In a chamber of the Capitol that's usually bustling with black suits, navy suits, red ties, and blue ties, more than 100 congresswomen chose to wear white as a nod to 20th century suffragettes who fought for women's right to vote — and never backed down.
I will say this, though: While I'm glad Netflix financed "Roma," I'm also glad the company backed down from its initial, hard-line stance on theatrical releases — if only because I've seen "Roma" on the big screen, and that's how it deserves to be watched.
The president followed his initial tepid response on Saturday with a harsher but more stilted explicit condemnation of specific hate groups on Monday, but then backed down in a ranting impromptu press conference on Tuesday in which he again claimed "both sides" were to blame.
Asked why the administration had backed down in Poe's case, Mr. O'Malley said that "our approach reflects the facts and circumstances specific to each case," but added that privacy concerns and the terms of the judge's restraining order prevented him from offering more detail.
TAIPEI, March 12 (Reuters) - A top U.S. university, Johns Hopkins, has backed down on how it refers to Taiwan on a map detailing the spread of the new coronavirus after the island's government protested at the institution's inclusion of the island as part of China.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump last June ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired but backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than follow his directive, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing four people told of the matter.
Democrats fought to have a DACA fix tied to a funding bill to end the government's three-day shutdown, but they eventually backed down after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
The Netherlands and France backed down, but the real cause of China's concern was the U.S. China behaved in accord with the old Chinese adage of "killing the chicken to show the monkey" (act against the lesser to send a message to the greater).
The president was in Davos, Switzerland, when The Times reported that Mr. Trump had ordered the firing of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is overseeing the Russia investigation, and had backed down only when the White House counsel threatened to resign.
With all eyes on Wednesday's U.S. Federal Reserve policy decision, the banking index broke a four-day losing streak, led by Asia-exposed banks including HSBC and Standard Chartered after Hong Kong's leader backed down over an extradition bill that has sparked mass protests.
To do that, the president needs to make sure he picks a nominee who has a written record demonstrating faithfulness to those principles and, most importantly, has not backed down when he or she has come under fire from academia, the media and the progressive left.
And Hammer, like most conservatives I speak with often, drew two lessons from that fight: The left will stop at nothing to smear innocent conservatives, and a typical Republican Party politician, more concerned than Trump with elite opinion, would have backed down and rescinded Kavanaugh's nomination.
The fact that Gorsuch criticized Trump for attacking the federal judiciary is important, and the fact that Gorsuch has not backed down after Trump commented on this suggests something positive about the Supreme Court nominee, whatever position I and other progressives might take about his nomination.
The new executive order temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from six Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. shows that President Trump has backed down from key elements of the earlier version of his order, the attorney general who sued to block the first action said Monday.
This is a man who has backed down from almost nothing in his time as the fearless leader of Infowars—from inspiring hate mail sent to Sandy Hook parents to calling the Quebec mosque massacre a false flag, Jones typically stands his ground—not this time, though.
"[T]here is some evidence that both sides have somewhat backed down slightly after [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] championed free trade at Boao Forum and Trump expressed optimism that a trade deal might eventually be agreed," Zhu Huani, an economist at Mizuho Bank, said in a note.
Ortega, who fought against US-backed contras during the 1980s and has been in power for 11 years, backed down a few days later, but the government's heavy-handed repression of the protests and the rising death toll ignited a national movement demanding the President's resignation.
McConnell and his allies, meanwhile, haven't backed down from warning they will seek to influence GOP primaries in an effort to stop a repeat of 2010 and 2012, when some weak conservative candidates defeated rivals from the GOP establishment in party primaries only to lose general elections.
The aristocracy backed down in 1910 and approved the budget, but Lloyd George and the Commons persisted in forcing them to accept the Parliament Act the following year, which replaced the Lords' ability to vote down legislation with the power to delay it for two years.
WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive.
And then, after all the dire warnings of what would happen if Mexico didn't give Trump what he wanted, Trump appears to have backed down in return for a declaration that Mexico will do pretty much exactly what it had already promised to do before the threats.
In June alone, the US accused Iran of attacking ships in the Gulf of Oman (something Iran has denied); Iran shot down a US drone; and the US claimed it backed down from a planned military strike at the last minute, targeting Iranian computer systems instead.
But when it came down to launching the missiles, Mr. Cameron failed to secure Parliament's approval, and Mr. Hollande backed down when it became clear that President Barack Obama had second thoughts because he was afraid of being drawn into a larger fight with Mr. Assad.
" Asked by host Saagar Enjeti how she would respond to those who say Iran has backed down in the face of similar high-pressure tactics at other points in the past, such as the Iran-Iraq war, Slavin responded "I just don't think there's a comparison.
"It's good for Apple that the FBI backed down for now, but it's a slap in their face – as they are essentially saying 'your system isn't that secure anyways and we don't need you any more,'" said Avivah Litan, an analyst who covers the industry at Gartner.
She gained his respect (he can't even come up with a nickname for her other than 'Nancy'), he sensed he was losing his leverage, and he backed down while saying that he was really just declaring a truce in a war he would certainly win later.
With the spotlight on Wednesday's U.S. Federal Reserve policy decision, the banking index broke a four-day losing streak with a 0.9% rise, led by Asia-exposed banks including HSBC and Prudential after Hong Kong's leader backed down over an extradition bill that has sparked mass protests.
And Singleton never backed down from showing black American life in his subsequent work, from 1993's Poetic Justice (which starred Janet Jackson and Tupac), 1995's Higher Learning, and 1997's Rosewood to action films like 2000's Shaft and 2003's 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Trump also backed down on his policy on the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei -- saying it did not represent a "great national emergency" -- even though his team has spent months warning US allies not to use its technology in new 5G networks, citing the firm's alleged links to Chinese intelligence.
He skidded to stops at the elbow for midrange jumpers, backed down Patrick Beverley and canned fadeaways over him, and repeatedly did that thing where in one frame he's dribbling at the perimeter and in the next he's at the rim and high in the air, depositing a layup.
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - The chaos that has swirled around the Virginia statehouse for more than a week showed no signs of waning on Tuesday, one day after a lawmaker backed down from his threat to seek the impeachment of one of three top-ranked Democrats engulfed in scandal.
After President Donald Trump backed down on funding for the construction of a border wall, some additional sticking points remained, including health benefits for coal miners, funding for Puerto Rico and an additional $30 billion for defense, delaying congressional negotiators and causing them to miss their deadline of Friday.
In the deal, which the Federal Supreme Court approved earlier in the day, Senator Delcídio do Amaral said Esteves agreed to help silence a former executive at state-controlled oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA who was considering a plea deal with prosecutors in the probe, but backed down.
Thursday night's blockbuster story in The New York Times—which reported that President Donald Trump ordered special counsel Robert Mueller fired last June but backed down when White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign—confirms just how terrified the commander-in-chief is of the Russia investigation.
But Jeremy Corbyn indicated on Wednesday that Labour — which held its conference on the weekend — would not support any attempt to shut down parliament for conference next week until Boris Johnson backed down on his threats to break the law and force a no-deal Brexit on October 31.
Economic soundings too have turned ugly again as factories, builders and retailers freeze and Bank of England chief Mark Carney - tipped by some as the next International Monetary Fund head - appears to have backed down on his relatively hawkish stance on further interest rate rises to protect the pound.
Elon Musk, its chief executive, announced on Twitter that he was going to take the company private, backed down, seemed to smoke marijuana in a podcast interview and was accused in a lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission of misleading investors, a case he settled over the weekend.
HONG KONG — Before the mass street protests, the tear gas and the clashes with the police, before the government went all out for legislation that could threaten Hong Kong's special status in China, and then abruptly backed down, a pregnant young woman went on a romantic getaway to Taiwan.
KIGALI, Rwanda — Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, backed down on Friday from plans to hold a vote on the creation of two new competitions that would have meant profound changes for global soccer after he was told that they would lead to an "institutional crisis" for the sport.
Lam the nod before she backed down, and none that the confrontation poses a grave challenge to Mr. Xi. Mr. Xi's nearly seven years in office have been marked by a steady tightening of his grip on power and a hard-line stance against any concessions to democratic demands.
Yet he never backed down from his belief that the company was on a path towards minimizing the problem by adding more moderators and ultimately automating the process with AI algorithms that would catch objectionable content much more quickly than moderators, who generally view content when users flag it as inappropriate.
But Jeremy Corbyn indicated on Wednesday that his Labour Party, which held its conference over the weekend, would not support attempts to shut down Parliament for the conference next week until Johnson backed down on his threats to break the law and force a no-deal Brexit on October 31.
As House Republicans tried this week (and then backed down in the face of public outrage) to weaken the nonpartisan office in charge of investigating lawmaker and staff misconduct, PEOPLE took a look back at some of the most eyebrow-raising ways public and campaign funds have been used by politicians.
SoftBank, which has already invested $2 billion into OneWeb, was in talks to provide more capital to the satellite operator but ultimately backed down after making the decision it needs to save capital instead of spending more, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions were private.
Sam Nunberg, the Trump associate who went on a national media spree last week saying he would not comply with special counsel Robert Mueller's demand to hand over his emails pertaining to the campaign (he later backed down), also told the Post that Stone had contact with Assange in 2016.
But it quickly became clear that he had not backed down far enough to quell the social unrest plaguing Mr. Macron's government less than a year after he brought tenuous calm to the "Yellow Vest" uprising that began over a gasoline tax and expanded into wider discontent over his policies.
A large and cleverly designed study of Chinese public opinion by Kai Quek of the University of Hong Kong and Alastair Iain Johnston of Harvard University tested scenarios involving a fictional conflict over the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed Senkaku islands, during which China's leader publicly threatened military action against Japan then backed down.
It's possible that conservative lawmakers in the heavily Catholic country backed down on a total abortion ban because they decided that Poland's almost-total abortion ban was already strict enough — but it was still remarkable that women made such a strong enough statement that the government decided it wasn't worth the trouble.
The Brazilian organizers have had to cut about $500 million from the Olympic budget — affecting aspects of the Games including the opening and closing ceremonies (they're being pared back) to the athletes' dorm rooms, which won't have televisions (the organizers were going to charge the athletes for air-conditioning but backed down).
The economic pressure brought Beijing to the negotiating table but Mr. Trump ultimately backed down, agreeing to a Phase 1 trade deal that would reduce some tariffs and remove the threat of additional levies in exchange for China buying more farm goods and giving American companies more access to the Chinese market.
Global markets were shaken earlier this month after President Donald Trump cautioned that the North would be met with "fire and fury" if it continued to make threats against the U.S. North Korea responded by saying it was considering a strike on Guam, a U.S. territory, although it later somewhat backed down.
While news organizations targeted by Mr. Trump have corrected factual errors and in one recent case suspended a reporter, Mr. Trump has never backed down, for instance, from unsubstantiated claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower or that millions of illegal immigrants cast votes last year, swinging the popular tally against him.
Despite the GOP nominee's outspoken criticism of the NBC sketch comedy show, SNL hasn't backed down, and on Saturday the show took on last week's third and final debate, tapping host Tom Hanks to play moderator Chris Wallace, with Baldwin and Kate McKinnon returning to their respective roles as presidential hopeful Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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.) has backed down on his controversial decision to dismiss the House chaplain, saying he will let Father Patrick Conroy stay on through the rest of his term.
Less than 24 hours after House Republicans met behind closed doors and held an anonymous vote to bring the Office of Congressional Ethics under the thumb of the House Ethics Committee, they backed down — stripping the changes to the office out of the package of House rules that the chamber will vote on later Tuesday.
Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (Ky.), backed down from a showdown that could have forced a brief, hours-long partial closure of the federal government. Sen.
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)On-demand electric scooter startup Bird has backed down from its legal threats against Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow for publishing a piece detailing how a $30 kit from China could be used to rewire the hoards of abandoned Bird scooters sitting around city impound lots, the BBC reported on Monday.
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