"The dollar's backed off, bond yields have backed off, and that's given a bit of support for gold, " said Robin Bhar at Societe Generale.
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He backed off of the claim once it became clear that his evidence was not sufficient, and some of his biggest initial supporters backed off along with him.
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" Mr. Caserta backed off: "Sometimes I speak too much.
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As soon as he backed off, the wind died down.
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I backed off its turf, but it started chasing me.
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Mr Temer threatened to veto it, and legislators backed off.
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Under pressure, Google leadership eventually backed off from the plan.
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The stock later backed off those gains, closing 3.1% higher.
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When Mr Xi pushed back, Mr Trump duly backed off.
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The Fed has talked tough before and then backed off.
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Some have backed off; others have regrouped in different configurations.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed off his Sept.
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I'm not surprised that they backed off of 11 boats.
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The American model has backed off on projecting Southern snow.
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"The field has backed off a lot," Dr. Molkentin said.
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Two weeks after his surprise victory, Mr. Trump backed off.
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She backed off of that when Marchese challenged that statement.
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But those members appeared to have backed off the effort.
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But on other occasions, he has backed off or conceded.
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Eventually the board got nervous and Benioff and company backed off.
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He later backed off that, but it's a moot point now.
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Its forces held firm for 73 days before China backed off.
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I backed off one of them and the car went bang!
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Suddenly many backed off because they were worried about the politics.
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After that, all three backed off and I was alone again.
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White House officials have even backed off pushing the 15% number.
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He's since backed off that pledge, according to The Washington Post.
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The official said McMaster then realized "he overstepped" and backed off.
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On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump backed off of his Sept.
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Of late, however, it seems to have backed off that practice.
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He never backed off his proposal to ban all Muslim immigration.
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The U.S. has backed off nearly all its most hardline proposals.
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"But you've backed off a national licensing registration plan?" he asked.
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Mr. Trump backed off after a top lawyer threatened to quit.
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But she completely backed off from getting involved with the behavior.
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So far, they have neither taken the bait nor backed off.
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He subsequently backed off amid a flurry of criticisms from investors.
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Both downturns were temporary, however, as policymakers backed off their positions.
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He backed off and I thought that was a good move.
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In the aftermath, both sides backed off from intensifying the conflict.
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He later backed off that threat, according to the Washington Post.
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The Federal Reserve has backed off plans to raise interest rates.
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The government backed off after a backlash from civil liberties groups.
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But the government backed off after challenges from civil liberties groups.
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Police backed off, and ultimately escorted Kessler's group via an alternative route.
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) has backed off that position, it's only Sen.
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Trump, in turn, backed off threats to impose tariffs on imported cars.
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"No, it's my turn!" she cut back in, and Bennet backed off.
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Capital One Financial (COF) backed off its offer to buy the unit.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed off his Sept.
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The HMS Montrose verbally warned the Iranian forces, who then backed off.
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TeamHealth was not persuaded by the logic, and AmSurg eventually backed off.
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So he essentially backed off, waiting for the fight to be stopped.
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But in this case, as rarely happened last year, ICE backed off.
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Hundreds came to Mr. Bundy's aid, and the authorities eventually backed off.
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After a decade of investment, BP largely backed off its renewables program.
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The officers backed off, he said, and then SWAT teams went in.
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A few years ago, I backed off criticizing him, and that's helped.
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He backed off after a phone call with Bolsonaro later that month.
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"Elizabeth Warren backed off her Medicare for all stance," he said approvingly.
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When an international outcry and massive protests ensued, he temporarily backed off.
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"They backed off of that," Roberts said of the White House's position.
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"That's when he finally backed off and left the apartment," she said.
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And Trump has since backed off his initial push for significant restrictions.
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Lawmakers have backed off of their effort to end flights to Cuba.
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Trump later backed off of the public threat to close the border.
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Prosecutors didn't press charges after the alleged victim backed off her claims.
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But faced with opposition from the auto industry, the agency backed off.
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Ballet companies, initially interested in inviting Mr. Polunin to perform, backed off.
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But when Sessions went over to give her a hug, she backed off.
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"They just backed off a little from being out there," said one source.
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He did not present any evidence and later backed off from that claim.
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Shortly afterward, the Reagan administration backed off trying to change special education law.
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Trump later backed off the tariff threat after reaching a deal with Mexico.
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They were acting pretty skittish, so I backed off and let them be.
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He implicitly backed off from mass deportation, which was never going to happen.
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President Donald Trump backed off his plan to impose 10% tariffs on Sept.
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They quickly and crossly denied it and the White House duly backed off.
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Schumer on Tuesday backed off the position, explaining it couldn't pass the House.
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The U.S. has already backed off nearly all of its most controversial demands.
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The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index backed off from Monday's record high, falling 1.1%.
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Jones's unusual actions generated a good deal of press; subsequently he backed off.
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Now, Trump appears to have backed off his plans to commute Blagojevich's sentence.
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Conservative groups have not backed off their cheerleading for a Jordan speaker run.
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But Mr. Trump has expressed similar sentiments in the past, then backed off.
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Officials backed off of the plan following media reports and intense public backlash.
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It wasn't long before the media snooping stopped, and the police backed off.
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After six tense days, the two sides backed off without firing a shot.
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"I said, 'If Cherry goes, I go,'" Mellanby said, and management backed off.
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One minute he bumped with James, the next he backed off and switched.
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You got to the end of 2018, people had backed off that completely.
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Sony, however, just quietly backed off and ignored the Vita like an unwanted child.
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But Republicans and Democrats in Congress pushed back, and the White House backed off.
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She says she was taken aback and declined the advance and he backed off.
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I made it clear that what he said was inappropriate, and he backed off.
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We shouldn&apost -- we shouldn&apost have backed off on my sense on that.
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" The Justice Department soon backed off the sentencing recommendation, deeming the initial proposal "excessive.
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Maxine Waters (D-CA), who also was sent a bomb, but then backed off.
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"He backed off for a while, he cleaned up," Storm said in the film.
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The case led to a lengthy court battle before the government finally backed off.
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The euro was parked at $1.1424, while the dollar backed off to 112.72 yen.
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Whenever Huston hit the ground, Flynn backed off, allowing him to stand back up.
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The U.S. also backed off its demand of eliminating a tariff dispute settlement system.
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I would have backed off, or eased up, because I still feel very strongly.
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The Trump administration has backed off the demand, but not before it frayed nerves.
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He has previously floated — and then backed off — the idea of an immigration deal.
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Then they backed off: The OCE will not be touched, at least for now.
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In retrospect, it was perhaps not surprising that China had backed off so quickly.
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When a reporter asked whether she would resign, the election official backed off slightly.
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Wall Street stocks soared overnight as U.S. President Donald Trump backed off his Sept.
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There&aposs no evidence North Korea has backed off its nuclear ambition at all.
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The volunteers backed off but continued to leave groceries on the porch each Friday.
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Whenever passersby have intervened, the assailants have backed off and driven away, he said.
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He backed off from even symbolic enforcement of the red line he had set.
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It has backed off using consent decrees to impose reforms on troubled police departments.
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He later backed off of that claim and pledged to cooperate with the investigation.
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The ministry backed off slightly, allowing some teachers to use the novel in classrooms.
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Trump fired Flynn in February after Flynn backed off his denial in news reports.
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The woman later backed off her claims, and charges were never filed, police said.
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Mr. Trump backed off that fabrication only when the Republican nomination was safely his.
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WATTERS: Wow, so they got the policy time and then backed off the policy time.
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He backed off later in the campaign, saying only that he would hold officeholders accountable.
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Pupa backed off in the final round, refused to engage in combat with this upstart.
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Clinton backed off her previous support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the Democratic primaries.
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The authorities backed off, but in 2014 they implemented a modified version of the plan.
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In exchange, the United States backed off efforts to force Canada to scrap supply management.
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The country tried, but backed off from, a similar move in both 2015 and 2016.
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"The stock market is rallying basically for one reason: The Fed backed off," Bianco said.
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"ADM backed off because of the asking price," the Buenos Aires-based industry source said.
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But the Democratic Party's former standard-bearer has backed off significantly from the political world.
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But they backed off after it appeared there was no consensus on what to do.
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After taking gunfire from him, police backed off and waited for SWAT teams to respond.
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Mr Benioff also flirted with buying Twitter in 2016 but backed off when shareholders protested.
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The lawmakers backed off their impeachment talk, but the Times story revived scrutiny of Rosenstein.
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We should have backed off that deal, doubled the sanctions and made a real deal.
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Or maybe they toned it down, changed their rhetoric, backed off a little or capitulated.
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But when he saw Sansa was watching, he backed off from delivering a killing blow.
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But now, just 24 hours later, the White House has backed off its initial claims.
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He backed off, saying the next day that he would give Nafta renegotiation a try.
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The sides backed off this week, evidently in response to diplomatic efforts by American envoys.
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Mr. Pazmiño said that after the camera went in, surveillance teams following him backed off.
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The city eventually backed off after Mr. McMaster intervened with a call to the mayor.
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But he quickly backed off after his victory, saying he was focusing on the future.
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He backed off the order, however, after McGahn threatened to quit, according to the Times.
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Trump backed off the tariffs after Mexico said it would do more to address immigration.
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Later in trade, the greenback backed off its earlier highs, which helped push gold higher.
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" Asked if Trump should back off Murkowski, Hatch said: "I think he has backed off.
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But locals "threatened to beat them up so they backed off", she recalls with pride.
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Trump said he supported drug importation while running for president but has since backed off.
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" Lien added: "Although EUR/USD backed off 1.20 on Friday, investors are anticipating a win.
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Defeated, Ms. Bentley-Kates backed off and broke the news to a disappointed Mr. Matson.
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The 10-year yield backed off four-year highs, trading around 2.86 percent early Friday.
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When questioned by the outlet, Brennan backed off on Summerhill's bullet-studded claim to fame.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — Bill Clinton has not backed off the harsher criticism of Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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"They're like Verizon, which did exactly the same thing, backed off from installing fiber," Crawford said.
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McCants has never backed off of his allegations, but it's not something he wants to discuss.
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She later backed off from Terravera to spend more time tutoring and raising her growing family.
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And he hasn't backed off his since promise since Sessions declared open season on legal weed.
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This administration has had these bellicose statements come out, and they have backed off of it.
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John Kasich, also backed off -- reflecting the deep divisions in the party heading into the election.
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His ankle was a little stiff the second day, so we backed off a little bit.
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The moves came after the U.S. temporarily backed off on restrictions on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.
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He saw one of their arms and immediately "backed off" from the shed and alerted others.
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Though ESMA appears to have backed off for now, risk management is still in regulators' sights.
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But the administration quickly cooled that talk and has apparently backed off for one more month.
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The White House also backed off a threat to withhold ObamaCare subsidy payments to insurance companies.
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Or Russia may have backed off after the U.S. showed it was on to its plans.
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The department later backed off after it accessed data on the phones without the company's help.
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Trump reportedly backed off of the order when White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit.
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Treasury yields initially rose on the news but backed off again, and then fluctuated several times.
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Donald Trump backed off from his promise to scrap the deal that freezes Iran's nuclear programme.
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When a reporter followed on whether she will step down, the election official backed off slightly.
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As stocks rallied to new highs in the past week, Treasury yields backed off recent highs.
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Rudolph was enraged and backed off, while two Steelers players tackled Garrett and began punching him.
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Gold backed off its lowest levels in nearly five months after the Fed released its decision.
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Hours after the interview published, McGrath backed off that answer following a backlash on social media.
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The state of play: In recent weeks, many schools have backed off the essay score requirement.
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Mason backed off and proposed instead "or other high crimes and misdemeanors," which was readily accepted.
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Some companies have backed off from early promises, including creating watch lists that tracked specific people.
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"Once we did that," Brooks said, "he backed off before the Knick player got the ball."
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The fundamentals have not changed -- the conservative House Freedom Caucus has not backed off its demands.
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Yields backed off those highs as the week progressed and were at 2.85 percent on Friday.
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Reid, however, backed off pushing for an online gambling ban during last year's lame-duck session.
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In the wake of Trump's endorsement, Senate leaders have backed off their tough criticism of Moore.
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Yet under the Obama administration, the Treasury had considered sanctions on Mr Gertler and backed off.
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But after law school deans rallied around Arizona, the council backed off on quashing such experimentation.
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As he has with other contentious issues, Mr. Ford has backed off somewhat on his plans.
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He then backed off from his plan saying Tesla was better off as a public company.
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My partner backed off and gave me distance, which was the opposite of what I needed.
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He backed off that on Tuesday, saying that Mexico had made progress in detaining migrant flows.
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So we talked about Google and their efforts just to do this and then they backed off.
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We're told both Larsa and Scottie agreed to a divorce several weeks ago, but then backed off.
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Meanwhile the White House backed off threats to strictly limit the Chinese investment in U.S. tech companies.
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In 2009, President Obama backed off of long-term plans to develop storage capabilities at Yucca Mountain.
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Earlier this month, banking giant Goldman Sachs backed off plans to open a dedicated cryptocurrency trading desk.
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But the Fed backed off, multiples re-expanded and the market was able to make additional progress.
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That was to be expected, as soon as Uber backed off its efforts to compete in China.
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While the Joneses of the conspiracy world have backed off, the diehards are still going full bore.
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It was after that call that Trump backed off a plan to withdraw the US from NAFTA.
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Trump, who once remarked that climate change was a Chinese hoax, has since backed off those claims.
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North Korea backed off of Guam on Monday after threatening to launch missiles at the U.S. territory.
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Here's why: If the legislature backed off completely, some other town could just copy Charlotte's bathroom ordinance.
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But he backed off those statements Thursday, saying instead that France would remain secure in Macron's hands.
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That would once have been shut down by the morality police, which seems to have backed off.
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" Kobach somewhat backed off his op-ed, saying he "struggled with the words -- what verbs to use.
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Prosecutors decided not to file charges in the case after the alleged victim backed off her claims.
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The president reportedly backed off from that demand after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its proposal to slightly cut the federal biofuels mandate.
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All right, we see that — you used the term diabolical and fever, that it hasn't backed off.
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On Tuesday, the dollar jumped versus the yen after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off his Sept.
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Isaac backed off, pivoted, trotted around the corner to his building, to the safety of his lobby.
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The groups have been showing weakness after 10-Year Treasury yields backed off levels over 3 percent.
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Giuliani added that Democrats have "backed off" a midterm campaign push that emphasizes possibly impeaching the president.
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Trump temporarily backed off his plan to withdraw U.S. forces after hearing feedback from senior military leaders.
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Wade, they have backed off that rhetoric as Kavanaugh faces a tough confirmation hearing in the Senate.
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For a while, Trump tried to unnerve Chuck Schumer, but Schumer remained unperturbed and Trump backed off.
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Even after former Pizzagate promoters like Alex Jones backed off of the theory, it still has proponents.
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One level deeper: The Saudis have already backed off plans to hold the IPO in late 2018.
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Bush backed off, ultimately asking the Justice Department to find firmer legal footing for the surveillance program.
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The company backed off the assertions when I pointed that the laws did not seem to apply.
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While the police initially believed she had done so, they have now backed off from that claim.
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But in a written statement, he disputed that his agency had backed off its commitment to safety.
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After a day of drama, the Judiciary Committee backed off its subpoena threat, and Whitaker showed up.
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And before the season began, the N.F.L. backed off a plan to penalize players who do so.
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" He backed off the charged declaration later in the same hearing, saying: "I think spying did occur.
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During the trip, Trump backed off the idea of closing the southern border because of the virus.
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At that time, China backed off, but an intervention now would confront a more potent Chinese military.
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By Thursday morning, the president backed off his threat to send Mr. Saipov to the military prison.
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But that consideration is no longer relevant, as Perdue backed off the plan to reshuffle the office.
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After The New York Times reported on Apple's moves in April, Apple backed off on the policy.
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A recent diagnosis of cancer in another officer "made me regret that I backed off," he said.
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Some school districts that originally took that stance have since backed off and have tried to compromise.
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He has since backed off that position, with his surrogates saying his administration will prioritize removing criminals.
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But after pressure from the NRA and warnings he could face dire political consequences, he backed off.
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The female backed off into the bushes, and Diego landed with a thud that sent dust flying.
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The story said that Trump "backed off" the idea of visiting the U.K. amid fears of protests.
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Later, Marx backed off this claim, realizing that capitalism was far more resilient than he initially supposed.
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Investigators told her they were going to arrest Mr. Yamaguchi, she said — but then suddenly backed off.
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While Trump backed off that pledge this year, they hold out hope he might come back around.
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In reality, U.S. officials backed off, looked away and let the thievery become more entrenched than ever.
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But Mr. Buhari has backed off some prosecutions in exchange for political support and overlooked some wrongdoing.
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Eliot Spitzer tried to restore these rights but backed off in the face of intense political blowback.
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That's when Owens backed off ... big time ... and even dished out a few compliments for Tom and Bill.
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While it's backed off a bit since then, the Dow has gained up 8.5 percent since Election Day.
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They backed off after the United States and the European Union protested the move in unusually strong terms.
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He backed off that demand as Congress passed a bill to keep the government funded until that October.
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Bernie Sanders argued earlier this month that Clinton is not qualified, though he later backed off those remarks.
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However, outflows declined towards the end of last week after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off his Sept.
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Crude oil has backed off by a quick 10 percent and is right back at $210 and change.
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Whereas Mr Ivanishvili backed off, Mr Putin, allergic to civil activism in any former Soviet land, hit back.
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Trump has said he planned to bring up the Clinton infidelities at the face-off, but backed off.
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Evergrande's 28 percent stake in the overall structure of Faraday Future will be backed off to 220 percent.
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Unlike some U.S. companies, GE has not backed off plans in Mexico, risking broadsides from Trump on Twitter.
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By every indication, Trump backed off of the idea after meeting with pharmaceutical executives a few weeks later.
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The TBI earlier had said the two were found in a commune, but later backed off that description.
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When Trump came up, he suggested the real estate magnate was a narcissist—and then quickly backed off.
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Commodity prices have stabilized, albeit at depressed levels, and the dollar has backed off a Fed-induced high.
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The situation threatened to get violent, so the federal government backed off, returning the cattle to the Bundys.
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Chevron recently said it would be backing off its operations in Kurdistan, and Total backed off last year.
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Mutual funds, the big money fueling the tech boom last year, have largely backed off tech startup investments.
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In the U.S., the Fed backed off its rate hike plans and gave the economy time to adjust.
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Despite some of its people observing a religion in which marijuana is a sacrament, the government backed off.
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On Tuesday, the dollar gained dramatically against the yen after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off his Sept.
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Trump did offer support for drug importation during the 2016 campaign, but he later backed off the idea.
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The Trump administration backed off on its policy of separating families awaiting prosecution for illegal entry this week.
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The 2-year yield moved to a high of 1.66% while Powell was speaking, but it backed off.
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Katerra, the SoftBank-backed off-site construction company, is one of the more prominent startups in this area.
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The Tories backed off, but the damage was done, and British voters made them pay at the polls.
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Overnight, it had fallen to a one-week low after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off his Sept.
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Trump backed off from his threat to slap hefty tariffs on automotive imports as part of the agreement.
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Many of the Republican leaders who have backed off from Trump are either women, Mormon or evangelical Christians.
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But some signers have since backed off under pressure, raising doubts about whether the floor vote will occur.
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More recently, ISPs have backed off providing much in the way of justification for the unpopular restrictions whatsoever.
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In one, Mr. Trump asked him to fire the special counsel but backed off after Mr. McGahn refused.
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In 2016, it backed off a bid to acquire Tronc, the media company now known as Tribune Publishing.
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And now that Facebook and Zuckerberg have backed off, a lot of other questions have suddenly cropped up.
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Republican leaders in the state, including Governor Pat McCrory, have not backed off their support for the measure.
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The senator contended that Trump backed off of a possible immigration solution when he faced pressure from conservatives.
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When the referee told them to leave, the women backed off, causing confusion and scuffling around the patient.
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Though the region remains tense, both sides have backed off from intensifying the conflict since the Iranian attack.
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Third, it has backed off on advertising and outreach designed to let people know about options for coverage.
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Mr. Gracie defended his role in the 2014 brawl, saying he backed off after bringing down the doorman.
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Then he backed off about seven months later when he realized there wasn't enough support for the idea.
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Trump backed off from the idea after Republicans and Democrats pilloried the plan on the Sunday political shows.
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It is unclear if Mr. Trump has also backed off his threat to impose metal tariffs on Argentina.
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But then when I started feeling like you might want more than that I kind of backed off.
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Do you think he just backed off his tariff threat with Mexico because he got some tough new deal?
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Fuchs was clearly frustrated, but he backed off and ultimately simply asked how he could begin working with AiB.
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The U.S. nearly gave ZTE a death sentence for similar allegations earlier this year, before President Trump backed off.
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The dollar backed off to 109.95 yen from an early 110.29, while the euro was barely changed at $1.2457.
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President Barack Obama's trade office has backed off of its effort to pass the deal before Trump takes office.
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López still vowed to run for president, but in 2012 he backed off to support candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski.
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McGahn backed off when Sessions told him that DOJ officials already advised him to recuse himself, per the Times.
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Reich said it was a 3 out of 10 choice after Sunday's game but backed off slightly on Monday.
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" But after he defeated Clinton, Trump backed off, saying: "I don't want to hurt the Clintons, I really don't.
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The Trump administration has backed off a demand for money to fund a U.S.-Mexico border in the bill.
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The U.S. 25.514-year Treasury yield backed off from the 215 percent mark this morning, hovering around 2.963 percent.
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In the years since, ISPs have backed off providing much in the way of justification for the unpopular restrictions.
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And every time, the Fed backed off, fearful that a loss of confidence would sink the still shaky economy.
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But because her own co-host and other black ESPN employees stood by her, the network reportedly backed off.
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Trump reportedly backed off his demand after White House counsel Don McGahn refused Trump's order and threatened to quit.
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Israeli officials backed off the idea, telling their American counterparts that Netanyahu understood M.B.Z.'s and M.B.S.'s concerns.
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Although Bernie Sanders has backed off his attacks on Hillary Clinton, she's technically still fighting a two-front war.
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" Russell told me, "I started off making records, but as the label took off I backed off of that.
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But the administration backed off the idea after corn states said it would weaken the incentive to blend biofuels.
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Facing elimination, Detroit backed off from the physical, contentious, fight-filled play that had marked the first four games.
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So it seemed a plausible story to many that Trump backed off his demand because the heat was on.
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Mr. Trump backed off his long-held claim that global warming is a hoax in an interview on Sunday.
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Mr. Trump backed off after Mr. McGahn refused to carry out the directive and prepared to resign in protest.
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When Mr. McGahn told Mr. Priebus and Mr. Bannon, they urged him not to resign and he backed off.
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The day before the protest was originally planned this month, the company backed off a number of key demands.
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U.S. stock futures were higher this morning after North Korea backed off on its threatened missile strike on Guam.
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Europe & Iran The US and Iran seem to have backed off the brink of war, at least for now.
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She had backed off from Sanders-like purity on Medicare for All seemingly because she feared the political reverberations.
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American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said Friday that after objections from customers and flight attendants, the airline backed off.
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I think he not only backed off of that statement, but sort of repudiated it later in the campaign.
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McCarthy did not address the ball and backed off to line up his shot after his caddie stepped away.
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California has made it very clear it will fight any such attempt in court; lately, Pruitt has backed off.
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Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, backed off that threat on Monday after reaching a deal with the Justice Department.
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Within seconds, the woman's colleague pulled out a handgun from her waistband and pointed at him until he backed off.
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But then about a week later, Pelosi backed off that stance, and Schumer seems disinclined to pick a fight either.
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Yesterday, they were supposed to be delivered, the documents by DOJ and they got snookered because the DOJ backed off.
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But the president backed off following a national and international uproar, ordering an end to the separations on June 20.
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Just before Macron backed off, Americans for Tax Reform circulated this piece from the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page.
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After a high-octane start to the season, Grey's Anatomy backed off a bit this week for a quieter episode.
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But when he hit just six homers as a Rice junior, after 26 as a sophomore, other teams backed off.
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While Trump has since reportedly backed off that suggestion, Syria remains a tangled set of competing fighting groups and priorities.
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Assange has since backed off on the promise, stating that yesterday's order does not fulfill the terms of the pledge.
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" He followed that up by saying "Amazon has listened, and they have been very respectful, and they have backed off.
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Two of pizzagate's loudest mouthpieces have backed off their support after a man armed with a AR-15, a Colt.
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Trump hadn't backed off that view by Friday morning, when he made clear on Twitter his frustrations at the report.
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Later, on KJR, Schneider backed off his comments slightly, but he reiterated that he thought Lynch was considering stepping away.
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Loan applications to purchase a home, while less rate-sensitive, backed off as well, falling 0.4 percent for the week.
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However, he mostly backed off when asked to comment on several statements or positions espoused by incoming President Donald Trump.
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The union, which like the Machinists is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, backed off after the Machinists launched their drive.
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Trump later backed off of his remarks slightly in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night.
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Trump has already backed off his promise to make TransCanada use U.S. steel in its 1,200-mile Keystone XL pipeline.
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He's backed off the pledge to move the embassy to Jerusalem, and had criticized the building of new Israeli settlements.
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That result may have scared other Republicans—even Texas Governor Greg Abbott has backed off from championing a bathroom bill.
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Earlier in January, the carrier had backed off plans to introduce Huawei's flagship Mate 10 Pro into the U.S. market.
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The dollar backed off to 109.87 yen from an early 110.29, while the euro nudged up to $1.2460 from $1.2425.
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More recently, Mnuchin has backed off that pledge by pleading mathematics just makes it hard to not cut people's taxes.
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White House chief of staff Andrew Card and counsel Alberto Gonzales backed off that night — but the battle wasn't over.
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The president backed off his criticism of the media one day after the shooting and offered rare praise for reporters.
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Because of this stagnation, the shareholders of one major pharma company after another have backed off on R&D investment.
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She has since backed off that position and pledged, in a subsequent interview with Sludge, to forswear those contributions herself.
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As a CNN analyst, Cuccinelli was always outnumbered, but he never backed off articulating the principled conservative side of things.
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Both times she backed off because of the children, and because she didn't want it to be ugly, she said.
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Trump, for his part, backed off from his criticisms of Cruz that he had broadcast loudly all day on Saturday.
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A few agreed and then backed off, skittish or weary of being mouthpieces for the larger problems of their field.
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Bannon actually had Orrin Hatch on his list, and by all reports backed off later at the encouragement of Trump.
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That being said, Trump has had opportunities to tear up the Iran deal in the past and has backed off.
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He certainly isn't calling for an assault weapons ban, and he's backed off from raising the age limit to 153.
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LHP Andrew Chafin has been backed off his rehab assignment with Class A Visalia due to groin and shoulder soreness.
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Mr. Cuomo backed off on teacher evaluations after tens of thousands of parents had their children sit out the tests.
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Later on Tuesday, it seemed Blankenship had backed off the idea of running as a third-party candidate, per Noble.
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Our Upshot economics columnist notes that Mr. Trump has backed off his threats whenever markets and the economy looked soft.
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" Hours later, Mr. Trump slightly backed off, telling reporters, "I hope it's not true, but it looks like it is.
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Some large online companies, including Facebook, eventually backed off from their opposition to the bill after its scope was narrowed.
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump called for eliminating the program, but he backed off shortly after winning the election.
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As stock averages roller-coastered, and the gains he claimed were proof of his success were threatened, Trump backed off.
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Mr. Emanuel backed off that threat on Friday, but said he was not sure where the money would come from.
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By Sunday, Mr. Booker had backed off his Biden criticism — not the first time he'd done so during the campaign.
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By Sunday, Mr. Booker had backed off his Biden criticism — not the first time he'd done so during the campaign.
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And President Donald Trump backed off his threat to jack up tariffs on Chinese goods, easing trepidation about rising costs.
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He has backed off dangerous pledges like tearing up the Iran nuclear deal and accusing China of manipulating its currency.
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Walker first considered a run against Tillis in the spring, but backed off after failing to gain support from Trump.
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The dollar backed off to 109.90 yen from an early 110.29, while the euro nudged up to $1.10 from $1.2425.
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Washington (CNN)Meghan McCain says she believes President Donald Trump has backed off his personal attacks against her father, Sen.
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Hill had insisted planning for such a meeting had to go through the proper process, after which Sondland backed off.
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And for about 18 months, intelligence officials concluded, Beijing backed off its 10-year online effort to steal trade secrets.
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Reportedly, Klobuchar backed off from criticizing the company after the discussion, having not posted any harsh statements on her Facebook page.
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But Trump has never backed off the fundamental assertion that whatever replaces Obamacare will exceed it in breadth while costing less.
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The Chargers, thankfully, backed off their early idea that he would play inside and have made him a rush outside linebacker.
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But it backed off as media attention intensified and because the stakes were so small: The award was less than $5,000.
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He later backed off after facing public backlash and allegations that he was using the conference to line his own pockets.
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But mortgage-backed securities gave the sector a bad name during the financial crisis and investors backed off for a while.
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Amina said his parents have backed off now he has had children, although they still ask when he will next wed.
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And every president before now has backed off on China and that&aposs why they&aposve gained this advantage on us.
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He backed off campaign trail red meat, de-prioritizing his popular — but likely illegal — promise to investigate and jail Hillary Clinton.
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" So the White House backed off, arguing that it was better than the alternative of "endless legal battles at taxpayer expense.
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However, in recent days, two of the banks lined up to provide Gannett financing backed off the deal after Gannett's earnings.
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Save for the last, Trump has moderated his stance and backed off his positions in his first 100 days in office.
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The Fed has backed off its forecast for more rate hikes, but officials have not embraced the idea of rate cuts.
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However, in recent days Bolsonaro backed off an initial pledge to pull Brazil out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Two years ago, the then prime minister, Tony Abbott, backed off from proposed reforms after two influential proprietors signalled their disapproval.
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McGarry momentarily backed off, apologizing...and then shared another screenshot of tweets in which the author commented positively to Brian Spanner.
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After the administration said they would rescind the program, Paxton backed off and allowed the other lawsuit to be dispensed with.
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Although many nail bars set up by Britain's Vietnamese community are legitimate, experts say traffickers have piggy-backed off their success.
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NO DAKOTA BLOCKADE: North Dakota officials Tuesday backed off threats to block supplies going to the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp.
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He backed off that hard-line position in an interview aired Sunday, saying he won't explicitly ask candidates about the issue.
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Britain's Vietnamese community has set up nail bars across the country but experts say traffickers have piggy-backed off their success.
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After the Kremlin appeared cool to the idea of Putin visiting the White House, the Trump administration backed off that plan.
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The following month, Pruitt backed off a decision to stay a 2015 regulation on ozone, after sixteen states sued the agency.
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Prosecutors would not specify what charges they were considering, appearing to have backed off from the idea of a murder charge.
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The Central Plains are due for some snow on Christmas, but currently, the European model has backed off on widespread accumulations.
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American officials pointed out that Qatar was home to a major American military air base, and Mr. Trump later backed off.
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It also threatened to impose crippling tariffs on a new airliner from the Canadian company Bombardier, although it ultimately backed off.
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But the administration backed off its big-stick posturing last week, dropping the deadline in light of "significant progress" in negotiations.
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Police officials have backed off defending some marijuana arrests, but suggested they still want to go after people with criminal records.
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Uncertainty is the 'greatest disruptor' Trump has backed off tariffs at the last minute, most notably earlier this year with Mexico.
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Since winning office, he has not backed off, continuing to hammer Mexico, especially on the subjects of security, migration and trade.
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While Democrats have tried repealing the amendment in recent years, they backed off those efforts in a compromise to get funding.
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The euro has backed off recent 2-1/2 year highs and regional stock markets are trading near four-month peaks.
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Multiple prominent politicians eyed the post and then backed off, as the country struggled to imagine a post-European Union Britain.
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"I missed my family, but I backed off because I thought it was best for Linda and the boys," he said.
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But federal officials backed off the proposal soon after President Trump took office, and then reversed it completely this past July.
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Yields backed off their multi-year highs on Tuesday, giving the Dow a 560-point bounce and relative stability on Wednesday.
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Trump backed off from the idea over the weekend after Republicans and Democrats pilloried the plan on the Sunday political shows.
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Trump may have backed off Rosenstein, but his congressional allies have not, with demands for his testimony to explain his comments.
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The benchmark index backed off from early morning gains of as much as 1.7 percent after China's Shanghai Composite Index tumbled.
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Irving backed off an earlier pledge to re-sign with the Celtics after they struggled at the start of the season.
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But it's also backed off on the oversight of for-profit colleges, who provide a lot of the career-oriented education.
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So the City has in effect backed off on its level of commitment to the museum over the last 50 years.
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The two had a highly-publicized meeting in the Oval Office before West later backed off some of his more controversial statements.
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But he hasn't backed off his message that refugees pose a threat to US national security, even though the evidence suggests otherwise.
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TC: You'd also kind of backed off of late-stage deals, the idea being that newer investors could mark up your deals.
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Maybe you used to freelance in the evenings for a data analytics company, but you backed off when work got too stressful.
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Traders backed off forecasts for a no-deal Brexit and began to expect a delay of the departure date beyond March 29.
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He went in guns blazing from the right, hitting unions, that sort of thing, but when that didn't fly, he backed off.
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"In thesecond half, I thought we backed off a little bit," Red Raiders coach TubbySmith said in his post-game news conference.
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Police first said the car accelerated toward the officer, forcing him to fire, but the police chief later backed off that claim.
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He has backed off on threats over things like currency manipulation, tariffs on Chinese imports and on reevaluating the One China policy.
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He previously set an August goal for passing a tax-reform plan, but the White House has backed off that timeline recently.
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On Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported that China had backed off certain concessions as it sought assurances that the U.S. would remove tariffs.
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But at the height of the presidential campaign last July, Trump backed off his claim that he had a relationship with Putin.
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Trump has railed against high drug costs and supported drug importation during the 2016 campaign, but has since backed off the idea.
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Less than a day later, the Meadows backed off that strategy, saying he would pursue a contempt vote instead in late August.
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A Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates on Monday backed off plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Lt. Gov.
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Meadows backed off on that effort one day later following a series of talks with GOP leaders, who largely oppose Rosenstein's impeachment.
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Colorado lawmakers on Thursday backed off plans to become the nation's first state to regulate marijuana clubs, according to a new report.
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The resulting divorce negotiations were bitter, with Ivana alleging in a deposition that Trump had raped her; she later backed off that.
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But following his meeting in the Oval Office last week with President Obama, Trump backed off this campaign pledge ever so slightly.
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Prices for U.S. Treasuries were trading lower, though the yield on the benchmark 10-year note backed off a four-year high.
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Three years ago, the state superintendent of public instruction proposed moving to a single-diploma system, but backed off when parents complained.
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Rupert Murdoch is said to have encouraged the move, but Lachlan ultimately backed off — raising questions about his commitment to the company.
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Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) even threatened to hold up quick passage of the House's revised coronavirus bill, though he eventually backed off.
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Two of the dioceses — Greensburg and Harrisburg — tried to quash the grand jury investigation last year, but later backed off that stance.
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President Donald Trump backed off talk of imposing a quarantine on New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut on Saturday.
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The Czech crown also fell and backed off 20-month peaks hit last week, bidding at 25.386 to the euro, down 183%.
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The developer of Hudson Yards has backed off a plan that would have put a giant wall next to the High Line.
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Citing "four people told of the matter," the Times said Trump backed off after White House counsel Donald McGahn threatened to resign.
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Confronted with such testimony, the younger Mr. Trump during his court testimony backed off his assertions and acknowledged he had been mistaken.
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The New York Times reported last year that Trump ordered Mueller&aposs firing but then backed off when McGahn threatened to quit.
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Is it justified: The clown take was terrible and pretty much everyone knows it, including Milbury, who backed off the comments fairly quickly.
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Republicans had initially considered expanding the tax to hit a larger number of health plans, but backed off in the face of opposition.
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The 2500-year yield jumped to 2500 percent in early trading Thursday, but it backed off and was at 22 percent Friday morning.
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Thanks to the tenacity of Spirit, Sunny and their dolphin friends, the male whales eventually backed off, with only one male staying behind.
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Moyer described his grandson as a "nice boy, polite" who was "shy and quiet" and often "backed off from crowds," the outlet reports.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the rate hikes and has said the economy would be much stronger had the Fed backed off.
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When he tried to get a visa for a British soccer player, Abedin said the request made her nervous, and Band backed off.
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We didn't totally have it right, and then we backed off from it, and then we've tried to figure out a better strategy.
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We already have a pretty good sense of how cable companies and wireless carriers will behave now that the FCC has backed off.
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Apple, too, has reportedly backed off its plans to build a car and instead may be considering licensing its software out to automakers.
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The president this morning has backed off the embedded stuff, he just -- and at one point he said this was bigger than Watergate.
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UKIP's current leader Paul Nuttall has backed off that pledge but a ban is still favoured by some of that party's senior members.
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The recent rally saw the S&P 500 climb all the way to the 200-day moving average before it backed off again.
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In October, the regulator threatened to intervene in the carrier if there was change in management, but backed off after assurances from shareholders.
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"I felt like I was throwing some good fastballs early in the game and had them backed off a little bit," Hughes said.
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Following phone calls with Trudeau and Mexican President Peña Nieto, Trump backed off of reported plans to pull out of NAFTA last month.
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The Tennessee attorney general backed off his threat on Friday, citing a "human element" in his calculation and urging Congress to act instead.
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Even France has backed off its plan to reduce their 75 percent share of electricity from nuclear power as it finds alternatives scarce.
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The offshore yuan jumped to a one-week high against the dollar on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off his Sept.
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Trump has previously expressed support for allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, a top Democratic priority, but has since backed off the idea.
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NO DAKOTA ACCESS PROTEST BLOCKADE: North Dakota officials Tuesday backed off threats to block supplies going to the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp.
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The Trump administration backed off its demands that the spending bill include a down payment for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The president backed off from vaping restrictions after political advisers and lobbyists warned him supporters might push back, The New York Times reported.
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YouTube, for example, recently backed off from a subscription-based strategy for its original programming in favor of a free, ad-supported model.
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As a candidate, Trump repeatedly promised Mexico would fund the wall, but he has backed off those pledges in office, seeking federal money.
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However, Mueller's team told the White House that the reports were inaccurate and the president backed off from the move, the Times reported.
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And in Pennsylvania, Republicans backed off campaigning on the GOP tax plan in the final days ahead of the PA-18 special election.
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Under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department aggressively pursued reporters' private communications in a hunt for leakers, but backed off after intense criticism.
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In an interview on Sunday with CBS's "20200 Minutes," Mr. Trump backed off his long-held claim that global warming is a hoax.
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Last year a teacher offered her money and good grades if she would sleep with him — but she refused and he backed off.
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After the Celtics got off to a slow start, he backed off an earlier pledge to re-sign with the team this summer.
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He also said he did not remember Mr. Kislyak telling him that Moscow had backed off as a result of Mr. Flynn's request.
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When he has backed off and let the process do its work, they say he doesn't have the political will to hold elections.
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The fact that Bevin backed off Medicaid expansion is hugely important for the half-million low-income Kentuckians who now use the program.
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But Mr. Bezos backed off after it became clear that Amazon's image could be tarnished, a former employee involved in the matter said.
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Nor have U.S. intelligence agencies backed off on their collective finding that the Kremlin orchestrated a major effort to help Trump win office.
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The same template was initially used in the Special Measures Agreement negotiations with South Korea in 2018 before the United States backed off.
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Trump had reportedly ordered the firing of Mueller last year, but ultimately backed off when White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
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Trump flirted with passing gun control measures after the Parkland, Florida, shooting but backed off after extensive lobbying from the National Rifle Association.
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" Blake backed off, but answered another question about the Democratic field with a small dig accusing Trump and Fox of "ignoring the truth.
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" Trump also backed off from a previous call to pass a straight repeal of ObamaCare, saying that he would "rather add the replace.
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He also delayed implementation of a rule reining in payday lenders and backed off various lawsuits against companies accused of wrongdoing against consumers.
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However, on Monday Hope backed off his plans, saying in a tweet that "additional conversations" needed to take place before anything is filed.
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But Mr. Trump has backed off considerably in recent weeks, emphasizing efforts to pressure China to rein in Mr. Kim with sanctions instead.
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NPR reporter Tim Mak captured video of the scene: Masked antifa launch fireworks, water bottles, eggs at copsSecret service has backed off pic.twitter.
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Indeed, when the Liberals recently proposed a $7 copay to see a general practitioner, the government's popularity cratered -- and it backed off the idea.
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The embassy promise was a mainstay of President Trump's campaign speeches, but the administration backed off making the move immediately once it took office.
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He finally backed off and told her that his assistant would give her tickets to "Finding Neverland," a Broadway musical that he was producing.
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And, to date, Booker hasn't been able to do that; he even backed off over the weekend from his back and forth with Biden.
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A customer at a George Webb in Milwaukee, seen above, punched an employee and only backed off when another server pulled out a handgun.
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That policy led to family separations, but Trump backed off with an executive order earlier this week allowing families to stay together during proceedings.
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But he has since backed off that pledge, citing ongoing audits and saying he'll offer his returns as soon as those audits are closed.
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Speaking Wednesday at the Wall Street Journal's WSJD conference, Benioff again spoke about his recent attempt to acquire Twitter — and why he backed off.
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Accepted donations from lobbyists: After criticism for accepting money from powerful Washington lobbyists, Buttigieg backed off and announced he would return donations he received.
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"We've backed off on him recently just so if he did come up here, he could go deeper into games," manager Walt Weiss said.
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Mr Trump has since backed off the idea, saying he will wait and see how the NRA's lawsuit against Florida's new age limits goes.
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He has, however, backed off a plan to follow U.S. President Donald Trump's example and pull Brazil out of the Paris climate change accord.
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But that's only because Trump backed off his demand that $1.4 billion in funding for the border wall be included in any spending bill.
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The Treasury secretary this week backed off his previous statement that he wanted to see "very significant" tax reform passed by Congress' August recess.
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But they backed off that plan after Comey's written testimony -- which clearly contradicted that narrative -- was released, according to someone familiar with the plan.
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On May 16, after an independent review found little evidence to support the alternative treatments or the tapering, HERC backed off of the proposal.
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But he has backed off others, while his attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare foundered in the face of opposition from his own party.
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During the campaign, President Donald Trump proposed capping deductions, including those for charitable giving, but backed off that idea in his latest tax plan.
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Most economists backed off predictions the Federal Open Market Committee will move in less than a month, when it meets again in mid-March.
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Tesla shares surged as high as $304 in trading Tuesday, but the stock recently backed off that to trade at $693, up 4.3 percent.
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The government, for example, has backed off a plan to start paying Egyptian farmers the market rate (plus a small subsidy) for their wheat.
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U.S. President Donald Trump this week backed off part of a plan for 10% tariffs on effectively all remaining Chinese imports beginning Sept. 1.
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Following phone calls with Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Trump backed off of reported plans to pull out of NAFTA last month.
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Still, Trump has not backed off, and on Wednesday appeared to escalate his threats to withhold federal dollars if unspecified programs are not reformed.
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The offshore yuan had jumped to a one-week high against the dollar on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off his Sept.
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Crude backed off from that session's highs on fears that economic growth and demand would be stifled as the countries stumbled on negotiating roadblocks.
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The Cuban government backed off an embargo Friday that had prevented Cuban-born people from returning to the island by ship, according to reports.
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During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly promised Mexico would fund the wall, but he has backed off those pledges in office, seeking federal money.
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Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has backed off from the administration's plan to enact steep increases to entrance fees for some national parks.
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They later backed off the claim and earned scorn from the judge, who said the incorrect allegations were "notorious" and had damaged Butina's reputation.
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Maloni later backed off that statement, saying in late April that Manafort was still considering his options after receiving guidance from the Justice Department.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — The last time President Trump vowed all-out retaliation against Mexico for the illegal immigrants crossing the border, he backed off.
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A travel advisory was issued for NY's tri-state area over the weekend, after Trump backed off imposing a quarantine on New York state.
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On the second record It Calls on Me, I started to focus a lot more on the details/arrangement and backed off the noisiness.
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Faced with data like this, the Federal Reserve has backed off from its plan to aggressively raise interest rates and shrink its balance sheet.
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The Montreal Canadiens also announced that they will lay off employees, but the New Jersey Devils backed off a plan to cut employees' salaries.
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After initially endorsing the deal, Mr. Trump backed off a day later, and the White House demanded changes as a condition of its support.
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The dollar likewise edged up to 111.54 yen and away from a 10-week low of 110.85, while the euro backed off to $1.1848.
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Aside from disarming the CFPB — which Frank worries has not received enough attention — the GOP has largely backed off talk of repealing financial regulations.
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But both had been vague on the subject, especially the Five Star Movement, which backed off talk of leaving the zone in the campaign.
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After Mr. Trump's White House meeting with Big Pharma, he backed off his campaign promise that government would negotiate lower drug prices for Americans.
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Iranian hackers backed off from such destructive attacks in the lead-up to the signing of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 and afterward.
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When senior Justice Department officials intervened and backed off the initial sentence recommendation — calling it "extreme, excessive and disproportionate" — there was an immediate uproar.
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During the campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly said he would release his taxes once the audits were completed, but since has backed off that pledge.
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The court has so far backed off enforcing the Constitution that, as Shakespeare once put it, the Constitution is more honored in the breach.
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Even Serena Williams's father backed off on competitions when she was 10 so that she (and her sister, Venus) would have a lighter load.
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However, following a backlash by conservative religious groups, the government backed off from language that would have legalized same-sex marriage in the constitution.
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BIOFUEL LEVELS TO STAY STEADY IN 2018: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its proposal to slightly cut the federal biofuels mandate.
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Trump expressed openness to expand background checks after the Dayton and El Paso shootings but backed off under pressure from the National Rifle Association.
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The Obama administration backed off that consensus by including a "Medicare surtax" on investment income as part of paying for the Affordable Care Act.
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Kuchar knew his shot would be dead on arrival if he tried hitting into the 236-mile-per-hour gusts, so he backed off.
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Mr. McGahn, aides said, has backed off Judge Kavanaugh a bit, telling colleagues he would be happy with at least three of the candidates.
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Trump campaigned on lowering drug prices and has said that pharmaceutical companies were "getting away with murder," but has since backed off that rhetoric.
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Skinner said only two companies have formally challenged the commission's efforts to reduce disposal volumes over the past year but that both backed off.
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However, the Fed backed off its intended path in 2016 after growth disappointed and a series of geopolitical events caused unrest in the financial markets.
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He also threatened to close the border with Mexico, although he later backed off that proposal with a threat to impose tariffs on auto imports.
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Other times, the bosses at least temporarily backed off their idiotic schemes, like when Google quietly slammed the brakes on its censored Chinese search engine.
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The FPO's Hofer called last summer for an Austrian exit referendum but backed off from the idea during his campaign for the presidential run-off.
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Trump recently backed off his early refusal to accept the U.S.' longstanding One-China policy, which recognizes China's claim to Taiwan as a renegade province.
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"So we got through the prelims and felt pretty good since he backed off a little before the finish and still ran 6.47," Hall said.
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The president also appears to have backed off a prior threat to declare a national emergency as a way of bypassing the gridlock with Congress.
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Earlier this year, the administration backed off more strictly enforcing the individual mandate and pulled ads that encouraged people to sign up for health insurance.
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The market had backed off from the idea the Fed could move in March after the dovish statement the Fed made following its last meeting.
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KS: Also, Netflix did do a deal with Comcast, so a lot of people felt like they backed off the fight after they got theirs.
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The Judicial Crisis Network threatened to run ads against McConnell but backed off after winning assurances from the Kentucky Republican that the pace will quicken.
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While the church once regarded homosexuality as "curable" and encouraged members to be "forced" into heterosexual marriages, the church has backed off of this recommendation.
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A massive retaliation effort by what seemed like the entire Kennedy administration followed, and four days later U.S. Steel backed off its price hike decision.
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Traders backed off forecasts for a no-deal Brexit and began to expect a delay of the departure date beyond the current March 29 deadline.
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However, Tesla later backed off this pledge, Mobileye said in its filing with the U.S. Securities Commission, launching hands-free activation features late last year.
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But what transpired wasn't a fistfight ... one of the stars backed off in a big way -- and it wasn't who you think it would be.
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They backed off the threat after an inspection determined that teachers were working normal hours, sitting in silent classrooms and maintaining lesson plans, they said.
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"I would be abandoning my principles as a comic and a human being if I backed off President Trump or any public person," Griffin said.
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She started to look a little bit like a band leader, so we backed off of that and went with more of the gold accents.
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Early in the development process, Disney tried to trademark "Dia de los Muertos," presumably for merchandising efforts, then backed off amid a storm of criticism.
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But Manfred has backed off the idea of an international draft as the only way to do that, and Reyes doubts it could ever happen.
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While Mr. Cuomo eventually backed off, he insisted on bringing in a management consultant to help reduce what state officials called CUNY's high administrative costs.
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After an outcry from older Americans, as well as a letter from two United States senators, the agency backed off the cellphone-based code requirement.
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Trump has also at least temporarily backed off his pledge to end the protections for the undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
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But Congress backed off fiscal stimulus efforts starting as early as 2010, largely for partisan reasons that have nothing to do with the public interest.
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The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index backed off from Monday's record high, falling 1.2% as the index was pulled lower by Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia.
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TAFURI: But to call it a success now is when there isn&apost any material example of how North Korea has backed off is wrong.
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During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly promised Mexico would fund the wall, but he has backed off those pledges in office, seeking federal money instead.
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The White House on Tuesday backed off of previous attempts to tie the success of the stock market to its economic agenda as stocks slid.
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Another sign of worry from Republicans: They backed off campaigning on the GOP tax plan in the final days ahead of the election, per Politico.
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Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) threatened to hold up a package of corrections to another coronavirus relief bill just last week, though he eventually backed off.
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Mr. Trump backed off a threat to increase tariffs on China last winter, but when further talks stalled, he followed through on it this spring.
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He started to support his brother, but then his dad (who shouldn't even have been in the meeting) barked at him, and he backed off.
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In his most recent public comments on the decision, Bach on Thursday backed off his previous hard line that the Games would happen this July.
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He published a book called "The Future Is at the Political Center" this year and backed off some of his party's more right-wing stances.
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He later backed off, but the threat prompted a frenzied week at the White House that became a turning point for Mr. Trump's immigration agenda.
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Amazon backed off from its investments in China, for example, after struggling to understand the local markets, said Gene Munster, managing partner at Loup Ventures.
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But when he started submitting information to the FBI on Trump, the top U.S. law enforcement agency backed off for fear of influencing the election.
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The deal is the second attempt at a public listing for Feihe after it backed off of plans for a Hong Kong IPO in 2017.
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Dr. Gervais, whose work explores bias against nonbelievers, had publicly backed off some of his own earlier studies, finding them too small to be convincing.
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But White House officials said it was just a thought expressed out loud and the president backed off after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Gen.
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The U.S. and Iran have backed off talk of war in recent days, though hundreds of U.S. troops remain ready to deploy to the region.
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But on Wednesday afternoon, the GOP abruptly backed off those plans and decided to discuss the next steps at the conference's meeting later that night.
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Those familiar with Trump's thinking say he has never privately backed off his criticism of his attorney general and were prepared for it to resurface.
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In his first months in office, in 21975, President Jimmy Carter backed off from Ford's selection of Mr. Toon, but then went ahead with it.
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The talks stalled after China backed off certain commitments on agricultural purchases and insisted upon tariff relief, though both sides say they will continue negotiations.
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But since then, Trump has backed off the demand that Mexico pay for the wall, even as the project struggles to win funding in Congress.
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On the server, once the F.B.I. signaled it had grown wary of its importance — without giving conclusive evidence as to why — the paper backed off.
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Trump reportedly tried to fire Muller last year but backed off when the White House counsel warned that he would resign if Muller was fired.
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But many defense hawks backed off their demands and came on board with the plan, clearing one of the major hurdles standing in leadership's way.
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Connecticut lawmakers backed off a public option proposal in 2018 after Cigna — a major health insurance company — threatened to leave the state if it passed.
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Renault has backed off demands for immediate deal discussions but has no intention of dropping the subject definitively, people on both sides of the alliance say.
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But Apple backed off plans to make and sell its own TV sets, because it didn't think it could develop a product that was revolutionary enough.
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Against a basket of six major peers, the dollar last stood at 89.967, having backed off from a one-week high of 90.178 set last Thursday.
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But now that we're more than halfway through 2016, Microsoft has backed off of that figure, admitting that goal was just a little bit too big.
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Last week, GM backed off the target for commercial deployment of cars by its Cruise self-driving unit beyond 2019, citing a need for more testing.
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Still, Mazyrov spoke for viewers everywhere when he wondered aloud if Emelianenko deserved to win the round, even as Maldonado backed off his first-round pressure.
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In the end, faced with a rapidly deteriorating security situation, he backed off a bit, leaving 8,400 American soldiers and around 6,500 from other NATO countries.
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Clinton had largely backed off attacks on Mr. Sanders in her appearances in recent days, instead focusing on her standard stump speech of defeating the Republicans.
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And in its first six months, his administration has overturned or halted nearly two dozen environmental policies and significantly backed off enforcement of environmental pollution laws.
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Trump had threatened to defy the Supreme Court's recent ruling prohibiting inclusion of a citizenship question on the census, but backed off at the last moment.
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A total of five students were involved in the fight with Ma, who continuously fought back and slapped several of them each time they backed off.
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He said banks stocks backed off after the Fed released a dovish statement last week, and the market further discounted the chances for a rate hike.
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" Mnuchin, who this week backed off of his earlier goal of passing tax reform by August, said the White House will unveil a plan "very soon.
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"I want Intel to be held accountable for the fact that they agreed to something with shareholders and they backed off of that agreement," she said.
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I was like, 'Uh huh...' And she was very gracious and sort of gave me that very gentle, bow-like handshake and I just backed off.
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Reuters polling data published on Monday showed the world's top 10 banks have backed off forecasts that the euro would fall below parity against the dollar.
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Since then, both have also backed off that push, citing a lack of "support" in the rest of the Senate body, according to the Washington Post.
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We're told the family warned Khloe about taking Tristan back after last year's cheating scandal ... but ultimately backed off because it's Khloe's life and her decision.
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Last month, however, he backed off those comments when he was asked during a rally in Arizona about being a leader of the "Never Trump" movement.
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Trump temporarily backed off his withdrawal plan after hearing feedback from senior military leaders, giving more time for negotiations and a deal to come to fruition.
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He eventually backed off, but raised the prospect that Haftar might defy the international community and attempt to assert control and establish military rule in Libya.
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Both Disney and SalesForce reportedly backed off potential offers to buy the platform over worries that trolls and abuse could harm the new parent company's brand.
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He also backed off the EPA's pursuit of polluters, issuing far fewer fines for infractions than any of the last three administrations in their first year.
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Mr. Christie backed off a demand — to be given more control over the state's largest health insurer — that had brought the budget process to a halt.
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The young man was at first befuddled, then explained that he was simply doing his job, then backed off, realizing the truth of the elder's words.
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His administration has committed to NATO, backed off his China bashing, confirmed Iran's compliance with its nuclear agreement obligations and exercised some restraint on North Korea.
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That's why the threat of tariffs on Chinese steel rising from 20183% to 25%, which the White House has since backed off on, was so alarming.
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He raced down the wing with the puck, cut to the middle when the defender backed off and deposited a shot low on the glove side.
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After the shootings in Dayton and El Paso, President Donald Trump expressed openness to expanding background checks, but backed off under pressure from the gun lobby.
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For the moment he's backed off from the idea of declaring a national emergency, perhaps because many conservatives are afraid of the precedent it will set.
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On the eve of the vote, Odinga backed off previous calls for protests and, speaking in English, urged supporters to stay home and hold vigils instead.
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The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Pelosi's allies had been "quietly" making reporters and Democrats aware of the letter before Fudge backed off her potential leadership bid.
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Democratic Assemblyman Chris Holden had considering introducing a similar bill that would pass on the costs of 2018 fires, but said Monday he's backed off that idea.
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Confronted last year with an employee backlash against its sale of artificial-intelligence software to America's armed forces, Google backed off and withdrew from the JEDI tender.
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The Canadian government has approved its assisted dying legislation, after the Senate backed off a bid to expand access beyond those who suffer from a terminal illness.
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Trump backed off by signing an executive order this week allowing families to stay together during these proceedings, while the status of such enforcement efforts remains unclear.
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He has backed off calls to further investigate and prosecute Hillary Clinton and sometimes rebuffed the "lock her up" chants from adoring crowds on his victory tour.
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But when I got busted in Los Angeles for obscenity, pretty much everybody backed off bukkake, and I kind of owned that category for a long time.
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Roby backed off her endorsement of Donald Trump after the infamous Access Hollywood tape surfaced in October 2016 — and got slammed during the primary for her critiques.
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After being photographed multiple times together riding bikes, heading to dinner and attending church, "they just backed off a little from being out there," said one source.
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"Even the president today has backed off of any kind of description that he's looking for a sea-to-shining-sea fence or wall," said Republican Sen.
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Against the yen, the dollar held steady at 109.28 yen , having backed off slightly from a 2-1/2-month peak of 109.49 yen struck on Thursday.
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In June, shortly after rescinding DAPA, the Trump administration quietly backed off a core campaign promise to deport young undocumented immigrants, saying DACA would stay for now.
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Bush ultimately backed off, but not before Comey and his colleagues, including the FBI director, Robert Mueller, threatened to resign en masse if the program was revived.
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As the 10-year touched 3 percent and backed off Tuesday, the difference in rates on investment grade bonds and high-yield corporate debt was barely changed.
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After being photographed multiple times together riding bikes, heading to dinner and attending church, "they just backed off a little from being out there," said one source.
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The protests began last November after Macron's government proposed a tax hike on fuel prices, a position from which the government later backed off from in December.
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Making up his mind that he would die trying to sustain his manhood, he attacked Covey, with the result, by no means guaranteed, that Covey backed off.
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The vessel was allowed to set sail after Havana in April backed off from an embargo preventing Cuban-born Americans from returning to the island by sea.
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On Tuesday, Trump backed off that deadline for tariffs on cellphones, laptops and other consumer goods, in the hope of blunting their impact on U.S. holiday sales.
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There's a deeper pathos to Miranda's situation, but the season doesn't delve deeply into that until late, by which time haters will have long since backed off.
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Then, when CNN pointed out that Alyssa's current health care providers at another hospital allowed her to sign her own medical forms, Plumbo backed off that request.
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The company considered an offering in May, when equity crowdfunding became legal, but backed off because of concerns about whether it could draw interest, Mr. Coleman said.
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But he later backed off that position, saying that he will give Mexico a year to stem illegal immigration and drug trafficking happening on the southern border.
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At first, Khloe didn't buy it and blamed her for breaking up her family, but later backed off and placed the majority of the blame on Thompson.
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Trump has previously offered tepid support for tougher gun restrictions, particularly after the Parkland shooting, but later backed off those positions to align himself with NRA proposals.
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Among them was Mr. Trump, who vowed during his campaign to bring back waterboarding and once said that "torture works," though he later backed off that declaration.
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In that instance, Mr. Obama sought support from Congress, but ultimately backed off a strike after reaching an agreement with Russia to remove Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.
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But by early July, facing an international outcry, officials backed off the policy, after it resulted in detaining thousands of adults and separating them from their children.
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But officials backed off earlier suggestions that a foreign power was behind the attack, coming as the nation and the world struggle to cope with the coronavirus.
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According to people with knowledge of the situation, SoftBank has backed off from an initial 60-day deadline it gave FIFA to conclude talks about the plan.
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Not backing down Though Trump has laid off shaming Sessions publicly, sources who are familiar with their relationship caution that he hasn't privately backed off his criticism.
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A lawmaker had started drafting impeachment articles to push Fairfax out of office but has backed off those plans as Dems call on him to resign. 4.
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The decision to seek a more lenient punishment for Mr. Stone came less than two weeks after prosecutors backed off on their sentencing recommendation for Mr. Flynn.
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Mr. Trump eventually backed off the threat after vehement pushback from Mexican officials who suggested that the designation could challenge their nation's sovereignty and jeopardize bilateral relations.
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In exchange, a group of senators backed off their attempt to strip a permanent ban on taxing consumer Internet access out of a broader customs enforcement package.
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Backed off implementing a rule requiring so-called payday lenders to make sure consumers can afford these short-term loans, which typically come with high interest rates.
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The merger market for technology firms slowed down in 23.5 as buyers, heeding Warren Buffett's warnings about high stock prices raising risks, backed off from many deals.
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Police backed off an earlier statement suggesting there would be a criminal investigation, but did say they'd be working with WorkSafe New Zealand, which regulates workplace safety.
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He took a pass from Brayden Schenn in his own zone, skated down the middle of the rink, backed off three defenders and beat Saros with snapshot.
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Ron Johnson of Wisconsin backed off his claim that a reference made between two FBI employees of a "secret society" is evidence of an anti-Trump plot.
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On Tuesday evening, Parscale, the campaign manager, sent out a statement that the Target Center, the site of this week's rally, had backed off canceling the contract.
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The Fed, however, backed off its rate-hike plans and instead cut interest rates three times over the course of 2019 before apparently deciding to pause indefinitely.
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On Sunday, citing "substantial progress" in trade talks, Mr. Trump backed off his March 1 deadline to impose higher tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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Last week, however, the White House backed off opening up more drilling off the coast of Florida after strong opposition from the state's Republican governor, Rick Scott.
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"Mr Forex is hyper-sensitive to these bouts of self-doubt by Mr Bond, and the dollar has backed off a little on this Monday morning," they said.
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Trump has suggested that he backed off a military strike against Iran because he was not sure the country's top leadership had intended to shoot down the drone.
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The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield stood at 2.224 percent on Wednesday, having backed off from a 10-month high of 2.302 percent set earlier in the week.
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Update, March 31, 2019: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has reversed her course on cutting Special Olympics funding after President Donald Trump backed off the budget proposal he signed.
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Immigration activists have backed off calls for another government shutdown over DACA, especially after many saw the three-day shutdown in late January to be lacking much forethought.
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At least 23 Democratic politicians say Fairfax should step aside, and Virginia state Democrats on Monday were about to begin an impeachment process but backed off for now.
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Later, when Trump threatened to declare a state of national emergency and build the wall without Congress's cooperation, he backed off after multiple Freedom Caucus members expressed opposition.
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But Pelosi has not yet backed off her opposition to holding a formal vote, saying they already are conducting an impeachment probe that is valid under House rules.
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The Pentagon originally had hoped to get 228 of the Zumwalt-class warships but backed off the plan more than a decade ago after congressional criticism about costs.
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He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and domestic violence in 2015, though prosecutors decided not to file charges after the alleged victim backed off her claims.
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After reports that companies like Google and Disney had already backed off bids for Twitter, Salesforce had been left as the most likely suitor, the Financial Times reported.
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Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton has backed off his suggestion that 28 bottles of the prestigious brand be sold at auction, with proceeds mostly going to charitable causes.
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Wrigley says it contacted Chi-Town Vapors in July 2014, telling the company to stop selling the products and Vapors backed off, but only for a few months.
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But, Smart says, Brian David Mitchell allegedly backed off his plan at the last minute after he went to the girl's house and heard a man snoring inside.
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More recently, Trump backed off the impossible sweep and said he'd instead deport about 5 million, targeting immigrants with criminal records and individuals who have overstayed their visas.
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After Chicago's front office declared it wanted to get younger and more athletic—they joined the rest of the NBA in this goal—it backed off on both.
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Gold edged higher on Friday after the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields backed off highs, but the prospect of a Korean denuclearization deal eroded bullion's safe-haven appeal.
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ThirdLove's lingerie innovations piggy-backed off of each other in the company's first year of business, with the technology and the merchandise "developed in tandem," according to Zak.
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Hillary Clinton has backed off her earlier support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, and during a visit here she vowed to take on China for dumping steel.
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Earlier this year he backed off demands to break up the company after it sold some assets and appointed Brian Duperrault as chief executive to succeed Peter Hancock.
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Multiple British media outlets reported last week that Trump had cancelled his visit to the U.K., saying that he had "backed off" his decision to visit the country.
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He eventually backed off some of those policies, offering proposals for school safety funding and improvements in reporting to the background check system, measures supported by the NRA.
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But when pressed about whether Trump has the power to supersede the 2015 USA Freedom Act, which limits the collection of metadata about telephone communications, Gorsuch backed off.
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Earlier this week, two Russian generals announced the deployment nuclear-capable bombers and medium-range missiles to the Crimean Peninsula, but later backed off the pledge, CNN noted.
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Earlier this week, Democrats on the committee said that Kavanaugh appeared to have backed off his previous statement suggesting that a president could be shielded from criminal liability.
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The indexes backed off their highs after President Donald Trump confirmed he and lawmakers agreed to advance a three-week stop-gap spending plan to reopen the government.
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Trump and his team backed off on this "enemy's list" approach to climate policy as negative publicity continued to mount, but its chilling effect continues to be felt.
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But of course, it's entirely possible that Trump did link military aid to the investigations — but then backed off when that fact was about to be publicly exposed.
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Some schools opt to make the drills feel partially authentic — an approach several schools backed off from this week out of fear they would stir already heightened anxieties.
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Vermont's single-payer system never got off the ground; the state backed off when it recognized the significant tax hikes it would need to finance such a system.
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Then, following the election of President Donald Trump and the ascension of Jeff Sessions as attorney general, the Justice Department backed off support for that claim in February.
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The organization backed off insisting that Russia accept the findings of an investigation by Richard McLaren that laid out evidence of a state-supported doping program in Sochi.
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Mr. von Trier soon backed off his own guidelines, making digital video look beautiful with his magnificent, wide-screen "Dancer in the Dark" (Sunday, Tuesday and Aug. 19).
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Sanders said in October that he would release "comprehensive" medical records by the end of the year but later backed off that pledge, instead releasing several doctors' notes.
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China backed off buying U.S. dairy products from the levels it had back in 2014 because of its own huge inventories but now appears to be purchasing again.
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Two groups that had threatened to sue the White House over the new order, the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Citizen, backed off after seeing the text.
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In recent days, President Trump has backed off his calls to label China a currency manipulator after vowing to punish Beijing in the early days of his administration.
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Trump has since appeared to have backed off the plan amid pressure from conservatives and the vaping community, drawing sharp criticism from Democrats and public health advocates. Sen.
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U.S. chipmaker Broadcom Ltd, previously considered a major candidate with a $20 billion offer for the Toshiba chips arm, backed off due to legal risks involving Western Digital.
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On Wednesday, Trump said North Korea's leader made a good decision after the nation backed off from a threat to fire missiles toward the U.S. territory of Guam.
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Trump later backed off that plan after criticisms that a full withdrawal would allow ISIS to regroup and leave partner forces such as the Kurds vulnerable to attack.
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The administration also backed off a similar plan to withhold foreign aid last year and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in help to Central America this spring.
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Trump also threatened to send a terror suspect who killed eight people in a truck attack in Manhattan last year to the prison, although he later backed off.
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Orrin Hatch (R-UT), whom Porter worked for, came to Porter's defense, vouching for his character and saying he shouldn't resign — although they both backed off somewhat days later.
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She noted that the index got another "little breakout" from its December high to the high late last month, but it has since backed off by about 2 percent.
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Russia has backed off on targeting the services, but according to TASS, it has now moved on to targeting VPN services that would provide a workaround for Telegram users.
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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in the immediate aftermath of the release of the Mueller report that impeachment was "not worthwhile," although he has slightly backed off that statement.
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This year, as recession fears raged in January and early February and U.S. interest rate rises fell off the horizon, the dollar backed off and forecasters started to rethink. .
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After Trump won the election, he backed off a bit from saying that Mexico would pay for the wall in one payment — but still floated it as a possibility.
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Rafa Benitez came calling in January 2005, but the Spaniard backed off in the wake of Leverkusen's draw with Liverpool in the round of 16 in the Champions League.
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Rather than use the question as an opportunity to expound on the evil of abortion—as a dedicated pro-lifer might be expected to—the president-elect backed off.
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A few days after President Trump announced that tariffs against Mexican goods were "indefinitely suspended," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has backed off his previous tariff criticism.
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Huawei has reluctantly backed off the U.S. market after losing out on previously arranged carrier deals, while this week the government banned U.S. companies from selling components to ZTE.
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He's already had one demand granted — the Fed has backed off plans to hike interest rates twice this year and now is expected to cut up to three times.
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Why it matters: Trump showed both flexibility — he backed off the long-standing U.S. demand that any deal requires complete and verifiable denuclearization — and a willingness to walk away.
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Sources connected to the couple tell TMZ ... Scott's backed off his hard partying ways since he and 19-year-old Sofia started hanging out romantically a couple months ago.
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Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has backed off his earlier calls for an select committee, backing the standing committees while also insisting that they must work in a "bipartisan" manner.
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In another optimistic sign for businesses, the expert said the administration seemed to have backed off a threat to impose an additional $100 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports.
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The Trump administration has backed off of threats to impose tariffs on $2202 billion in Chinese products after Beijing said it would buy more American agricultural and energy products.
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Since then, Zinke has seemingly backed off his plan, telling the House Appropriations Committee last week that there was limited industry interest in offshore drilling compared to onshore options.
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The Trump administration has backed off of threats to impose tariffs on $150 billion in Chinese products after Beijing said it would buy more American agricultural and energy products.
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In 2014, then-President Obama tried to remove the protected status from some types of drugs, but he also backed off after outrage from patient groups and bipartisan lawmakers.
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When convinced that eroding the foundation of the relationship carried some unnecessary early risks to the larger agenda he had in mind, the former builder backed off a bit.
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Trump temporarily backed off his plan to withdraw U.S. forces after hearing feedback from senior military leaders, giving more time for negotiations and a deal to come to fruition.
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Google had reportedly visited the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to explore getting a new special-purpose bank charter, but eventually backed off, according to American Banker.
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But, immigration law expert Pratheepan Gulasekaram pointed out, they at least tried to be discreet about or explain these arrests, and at times backed off on deporting those individuals.
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He and Cummings jointly exposed details that Flynn had lied on his security clearance forms earlier this year, though Chaffetz later backed off the inquiry despite the Democratic demands.
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After political advisers and vaping-industry lobbyists warned him of potential pushback from his supporters, Trump appears to have backed off from vaping restrictions, The New York Times reported.
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I understand why the show feels the need to examine women's roles in Gilead, and why it has so far backed off from doing the same with the men.
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Mr. Trump threatened to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, but backed off in favor of negotiations that so far have not yielded consensus.
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Based on those conversations, among others with additional lawmakers, GOP officials believe Trump has now backed off of the idea of tightening the background check system for the moment.
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They backed off arresting her once she started crying, he said, but said they needed to bring their supervisor an arrest because he had radioed over a noise complaint.
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While McConnell backed off some of his most strident efforts to restrict the trial, it's still much more rushed than Clinton's trial — and has more restrictions on admitting evidence.
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After a debate on the State Senate floor on Monday, Republican legislative leaders backed off on arming most teachers, but voted to allow others in schools to carry guns.
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The Trump administration eventually backed off its plan to freeze fuel economy standards but has said it will stick to changing tail pipe emissions standards in the year ahead.
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It is the latest sign of Mexico's commitment to step up extraditions after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off from his threat to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.
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Still, Warren has not backed off her support for the program and, this time around, it is likely that Buttigieg will face more tough questioning from Warren and others.
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He said that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had recently been wounded, but backed off an Air Force statement this month suggesting he had been killed in an airstrike.
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Vietnam backed off its Hague-declared legal right to drill in the South China Sea, citing doubt that America would come to its aid if China took military action.
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He only this week backed off a threat to radically hike tariffs on consumer goods imports if he can't get a comprehensive trade deal with Beijing by March 1.
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Some voters have exercised their influence already -- following a backlash by conservative religious groups, the government backed off language that would have legalized same-sex marriage in the constitution.
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Instacart, which offers delivery services through an app, backed off its policy to count customers' tips toward its workers' minimum wages — a victory for members of the gig economy.
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It then noticeably backed off in season six — but it frankly speaks volumes that temporarily excising sexual assault storylines also resulted in temporarily excising the show of sex, period.
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Yellen's Fed did later raise interest rates though, starting in late 2015, but it did so more slowly than in earlier cycles and it backed off when markets were stressed.
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Republicans argued that they had met the funding level acceptable to Senate Democrats and charged that Democrats backed off the bill because of pressure from special interests, like Planned Parenthood.
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Uber had previously asked the judge to dismiss Waymo's patent infringement claims, but backed off when the judge created a new rule limiting the flood of filings from both sides.
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But it is the goose's victim who got the last laugh, "I did par that hole," Couling told the Detroit Free Press about what happened after the bird backed off.
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Fed officials in December had indicated two more moves were likely in 2019 but since have backed off, most recently expressing a desire to be "patient" before any more action.
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Under pressure from the commission and markets, it backed off; besides the €1 billion in tax rises and spending cuts, it added further "Plan B" cuts in case of need.
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Since then, mortgage rates have come down again as the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, on which they are based, has backed off from its highs earlier in the month.
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The White House originally set a goal to push through reform by a planned August recess for Congress, but Trump administration officials have more recently backed off that hard deadline.
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Just days later, three Iranian vessels tried to block a British-owned tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz but they backed off when confronted by a British navy ship.
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But Netanyahu backed off an additional amendment, drafted by a member of his Likud party, that would have granted the same right to single fathers and, by extension, gay couples.
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During last year's U.S. presidential campaign, then-candidate and now President Donald Trump proposed capping the deduction for wealthy taxpayers but backed off that idea in his latest tax plan.
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"The Justice Department's action should impel the Obama Administration to make a definitive statement on encryption, The President publicly considered the need for legislation and then backed off, " said Barfield.
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Tesla has backed off a plan to close all its U.S. stores and said it will instead raise prices of its higher-end vehicles by about 3 percent on average.
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The EPA was considering changing certain parts of the mandate at the behest of oil-industry lobbying — but backed off under pressure from seven Midwestern Republican senators and ethanol companies.
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BACKED OFF Modi tried to push land and labor reforms after he took charge in 2014, but had to shelve them after strong opposition from political parties and labor unions.
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The Republican majority in Congress was on a glide path to the midterms, having passed tax cuts into law and backed off budget battles with a year-end funding package.
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Cicilline backed off a tweet in which he said he looked forward to Hannity's testimony based on the Fox News host's comments defending the president during an interview with Trump.
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Republican pollster Jim McLaughlin said on Wednesday that Democrats have backed off their calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because a majority of voters are against the move.
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SoundCloud has been tipped as an acquisition target for the likes of Twitter in the past, but licensing issues were one reason that Twitter backed off, from what we've heard.
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Earlier this year, Trump said he'd be willing to shut down the government if he did not receive enough money for the wall, but has since backed off that threat.
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Trump in those remarks backed off his previous threat to close the border this week, a move lawmakers and business groups warned could inflict significant harm on the U.S. economy.
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And House Democrats are reportedly considering forcing a vote opposing the president's threat to seal the U.S.-Mexican border (though the president has since backed-off that threat for now).
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The two sides have backed off on threatened tariffs over dozens of products, though Mnuchin said that if China doesn't follow through on its pledges, the duties will be imposed.
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After all, they said, American presidential candidates have been promising to get tough on Chinese trade policies for more than two decades and have invariably backed off after taking office.
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He backed off a bit, according to Daniel Beller-McKenna's book "Brahms and the German Spirit," calling the work a "sort of" German Requiem and a "so-called" German Requiem.
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The letter follows reports that President Trump has backed off his pledge to remove all flavored vaping products from the market after pushback from the vaping industry and political advisers.
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The dollar later pared its gains however and was last trading at 23.1 yen as it also backed off to $1.2445 to the euro and $1.4165 to the pound respectively.
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As a result, they've backed off plans to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee said in an emailed statement on Monday.
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It's thereby reasonable to assert Sony would have backed off a very similar type of game with The Last of Us II if they became convinced it wouldn't make money.
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"They just steamrolled it," said Rachel Hoff, a delegate from the District of Columbia, which was one of the delegations that initially supported the roll call vote but backed off.
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Kushner has backed off on developing inroads to the Chinese government, a result of a more streamlined West Wing and questions over his family's real estate ties to Chinese investors.
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The New York Times reported Thursday that Trump attempted to fire Mueller last June, but backed off after White House counsel Don McGahn refused Trump's order and threatened to quit.
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The Trump administration said in September it would unveil a sweeping ban on most e-cigarette and vaping flavors, but U.S. media has reported he had backed off the plan.
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When UM backed off of an on-campus screening of the film American Sniper after students complained that the movie was anti-Muslim, he and others cried censorship and won.
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The president was angered with Mr. Dowd's handling of the episode, telling people that it was ham-handed and that Mr. Dowd should not have backed off his initial statement.
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The Internet Association, a trade group whose members include Facebook, Google, Netflix and Apple, has backed off from the strong stance they had against the bill when it was introduced.
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Tesla has backed off a plan to close all its U.S. stores and said it will instead raise prices of its higher-end vehicles by about 3 percent on average.
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Prosecutors even appear to have backed off the accusation that Ms. Butina used a graduate program at American University in Washington merely as a cover to enter the United States.
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Mr. Trump backed off his insistence on immediate disarmament, and his administration recently eased travel restrictions so American aid workers and humanitarian supplies could once again enter the impoverished country.
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Ms. Danner insisted that she be allowed to speak to a medical technician rather than the police officers, who had backed off and had let Ms. Mullings take the lead.
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Egypt backed off on the resolution after Mr. Netanyahu's government put pressure on Mr. Sisi's government to withdraw it, shortly before Arab ambassadors meeting at the United Nations endorsed it.
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But following the release of the compromise deal, which earned the support of the AFL-CIO labor union, the group has backed off the pro-USMCA position in its name.
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Trump in September called for a ban on flavored e-cigarettes but backed off over concern about job losses at the thousands of vape shops nationwide and potential voter backlash.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Venditto agreed that Oyster Bay would guarantee Mr. Singh's loans, but the town backed off after a lawyer told them that would violate New York State law.
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Trump earlier on Wednesday seemed to tout that Iran had backed off following the Tuesday night attacks on the two Iraqi bases and said that no American lives were lost.
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While oil backed off the day's highs, oil analysts expect the price to remain volatile and slightly elevated with the potential to move much higher, if there are further actions.
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It is incorrect and somewhat dangerous, however, for him to argue that Beijing "backed off" after the Clinton administration sent two aircraft carrier battle groups toward Taiwan in early 1996.
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Gold backed off a one-year low after U.S. President Donald Trump said he did not approve of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates again in an interview with CNBC.
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"The remarkable thing here since the floods," he said, "is that three parishes in the Baton Rouge area hit hardest have all backed off" on policies related to flood resilience.
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Trump, who has at times said he would support stronger background checks, backed off those statements in August after talking to the head of the National Rifle Association, among others.
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While Mr. Spector believes that Mr. Trudeau will vigorously resist calls for an inquiry, he noted that the prime minister has already backed off from several positions in the controversy.
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Even though Trump backed off those latter two pledges since the election, legal scholars and ex-prosecutors have raised alarms about his occasionally stated disregard for the rule of law.
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All 30 major league teams have passed on drafting or signing Heimlich; the Kansas City Royals considered it last year but backed off when even the mere idea drew backlash.
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Even Redfin, which early on, refunded two-thirds of the typical 3% buyer's agent commission to buyers, backed off that model and now only refunds a smaller amount of the money.
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Even Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee who pushed the TPP deal as secretary of state, backed off her support for the deal during the campaign amid pressure from the left.
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Vader backed off for a second, put it back where it belonged, and finished the match; he had to have a metal plate inserted into his skull to repair the damage.
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Maybe you've come across opal jewelry before and backed off because it's not your birthstone for the taking — and maybe you've heard it's bad luck to wear it if it's not.
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She's backed off of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, but she and her economic team are still firm believers in the value of trade liberalization, and Brown really, really isn't.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump backed off a false claim Friday morning, admitting he had not seen a video of a $400 million payment being unloaded from a US plane in Iran.
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But while Fallon backed off the critical refrain, hearing comedians take the moral high ground against appalling acts of the administration seems to have become a routinized part of late night.
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However, Dr. Hainline backed off his proposal after an outcry by about 100 college team physicians who questioned the use of electrocardiograms, or EKGs, as a screening tool for these athletes.
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The Fed raised rates in 2015 for the first time in nearly a decade and has backed off of the expected quantitative tightening it was set to engage in this year.
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On trade, Clinton has backed off her previous support for free trade agreements and, like Trump, now opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a pact involving the U.S. and 11 other nations.
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Photo: APAT&T has reportedly backed off from a proposal to sell Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei's devices in the U.S. at the last minute, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Guidon shelled up, Schilt backed off, and as Guidon opened up to jab he was met with Schilt's legendary intercepting jab which sent him to the deck for the first time.
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But Sessions backed off slightly from that on Friday, saying while the group meets "some of the qualifications," he is not sure it what all the "standards for that designation" are.
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He promised, then, to label China a currency manipulator if he won but has since backed off the threat, partly because they are no longer intervening to keep their currency low.
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Trump said Sunday that he was considering paying McGraw's legal fees, but by Tuesday had already backed off that position, saying he "never said I was going to pay for fees."
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Then, after you've brought yourself to the brink of orgasm and backed off three times, you hold your intention in mind as you "release the energy" and allow yourself to come.
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The president, thankfully, backed off that threat, but has moved on to threatening our auto industry as a way to compel Mexico to take action on their side of the border.
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The United States and other Western allies of Saudi Arabia backed off from that resolution after Yemen's government, which was in exile at the time, agreed to begin a national inquiry.
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It was only when cholera returned to Germany in 1897, killing residents who drank from the deliberately contaminated river while sparing those who drank filtered water, that the miasmatists backed off.
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First backed by a series of YouTube freestyles and then launched by the addictive hit "OOOUUU," the Brooklyn rapper hasn't backed off since we first caught up with her in 2015.
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The Kremlin had initially set a target of a 70 percent result for Putin with 70 percent turnout, though it may have backed off on that in the past few days.
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And, in fact, the new administration, led by Trump, backed off its legal threats to Wilson entirely — letting him move forward with publishing his 33D-printed gun blueprints on August 23.
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Then, Mexican officials backed off their initial promise to mobilize 6,000 National Guard members to the south, and instead said that the force would also include members of the armed forces.
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Most dramatically, the Turkish government this week backed off from its commitment made in 21945, in return for 6 billion euros in EU funds, to prevent Syrian refugees from entering Europe.
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Four federal prosecutors resigned from the Stone case earlier this week after the Justice Department backed off its initial sentencing recommendation, which had called for seven to nine years in prison.
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While Juul has backed off the school curriculum plan, the company has pledged to spend $30 million over the next three years on research, youth and parent education and community engagement.
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The records show that Warren originally seemed interested in the case, but backed off after weighing the concerns of a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the economic security of low-income people.
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Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misidentified the African country that, along with South Africa, has backed off plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.
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And 360 videos—core to augmented and virtual reality, and both areas where Google seems to have backed off this year with the death of Google Daydream—could use 5G's bandwidth.
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The lawsuit, filed by civil rights attorneys in the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois, came after Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed off a pledge to let a federal judge oversee reforms.
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When Trump backed off his prior claims that China was manipulating its currency, he sent a clear signal that he was willing to accommodate and deal with the reality of politics.
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Trump initially appeared open to expanding background checks following two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, last month, but backed off after pressure from the National Rifle Association.
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Trump has repeatedly said he would push for background checks and other gun reforms, but has backed off those ideas after consulting with NRA officials, particularly the group's chief, Wayne LaPierre.
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"Treasury yields have backed off and I don't think anyone is terribly optimistic about what we're going to get from the Republican tax plan," said Societe Generale macro strategist Kit Juckes.
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On the other hand, one community that had backed off reinstated the practice, and a business in Georgia began advertising its own possum drop with sponsorship from the local Ford dealer.
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The administration recently backed off a threat to shut the southern border, one of the busiest in the world, amid opposition from Democrats as well as often Republican-friendly business groups.
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Crude traders moved too early and aggressively in pricing in a tighter market and a big draw down in stockpiles and now they have backed off, at least for the time being.
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Investors backed off fears that a failure to repeal Obamacare would endanger President Trump's entire agenda in favor of optimism that he would simply get on with tax cuts and infrastructure reforms.
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He has backed off a demand that the group's members gather in designated zones before negotiations begin, but still insists that they release all hostages as a pre-condition for further discussions.
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In the second year of his presidency, he's backed off of those promises—either because he didn't mean them in the first place, or because follow-through would have been too difficult.
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America First Policies, a super PAC aligned with Trump, threatened a seven-figure ad buy against the senator, though they later backed off after Heller met with Trump at the White House.
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Trump promised during his campaign to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the US embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but has since backed off that pledge -- at least for now.
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Gold prices inched up on Monday as the dollar backed off three-week highs, but gains in the metal were limited as equities rose on signs of progress in the Sino-U.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks backed off record highs and government bond yields ticked up on Thursday following mixed earnings reports and rosier-than-expected economic sentiment from the European Central Bank.
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However, they backed off following a plea from Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch, fearing their stand would be seen as a vote of no-confidence vote in VW's leadership, the source told Reuters.
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Trump backed off part of the plan this week, delaying duties on items such as cellphones, laptops and other consumer goods, in the hopes of blunting their impact on U.S. holiday sales.
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She hasn't backed off of her charge that Kemp and Georgia Republicans successfully suppressed the vote, particularly of black Americans, by closing polling places, purging voters, and slowing over 50,000 voter applications.
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Trump has previously sought to declassify and release materials from the Russia investigation, including the application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Page, but backed off after U.S. allies objected.
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President Trump on Wednesday said North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, made a good decision after the nation backed off from a threat to fire missiles toward the U.S. territory of Guam.
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Washington (CNN)Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine backed off his 2015 claim that the United States' handling of Syria is a "joke," saying efforts to combat ISIS have succeeded since then.
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Kyle Schwarber hit what seemed to be a routine fly ball, but center fielder Starling Marte let it drop near the edge of the track after right fielder Jose Osuna backed off.
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The piercing sound penetrated the air to such a shattering degree that players backed off shots, and Spieth did likewise over the putt before converting it to take the early Masters lead.
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Day by day, she realized the knowledge she'd gained on the path—that she could experience sadness and also appreciate the positive things in life—lingered after she'd backed off her regimen.
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However, the British government said on Thursday three Iranian vessels had tried to block the passage of the British Heritage through the Straits of Hormuz but backed off after receiving a warning.
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The prosecutor general in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, threatened to fire the local prosecutor but backed off when it became clear that the case had been handled by one of his own deputies.
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After making what some observers suggested was a major dent in Syrian air defenses, Israel backed off, perhaps thanks in part to the intervention of Russia, which urged restraint from both countries.
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The DEA backed off, at least for now, and Davies says the battle has largely shifted to the states, some of which have banned kratom (often lumping it in with synthetic opioids).
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Trump campaign manager Brad ParscaleBradley (Brad) James ParscaleMORE said Tuesday that the Target Center had backed off canceling the event over the costs and that the rally would go forward as planned.
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According to the government, Mr. Venditto agreed that Oyster Bay would guarantee Mr. Singh's loans, but the town backed off after a lawyer told them that would violate New York State law.
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Earlier, Mr. Trump backed off his demand for immediate funds to build a wall along the Mexican border, easing the path of a spending bill to keep the government running past Friday.
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That said, some of the more aggressive models for snowfall backed off a little overnight though they still advertise a period of moderate to heavy snow between about 13 and 6 p.m.
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It was these activists who helped shift the line marking the acceptable edge of law enforcement critique, and by the 2016 election, Democrats had noticeably backed off from the Clinton-era consensus.
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In recent years, many of the companies developing self-driving cars have backed off from the aggressive timelines they had previously set to introduce fully driverless vehicles for personal or commercial use.
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But in the end and after a hearing, lawmakers backed off such a legislative push and concluded the change should be handled administratively at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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The S&P 500 has been edging closer to 3,028, its high from July 26, but it has backed off a number of times, creating a jagged seesaw pattern on August's chart.
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Andrew Cuomo, who over the weekend backed off prior praise for Joe Biden in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that landed amid Biden's poor showing in the early voting states.
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And once the N.F.L. realized the opposition it would face if it pushed ahead with a rule mandating players on the field to stand during the national anthem, the league backed off.
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She had two sons within two years — Sean Preston in 22015, Jayden James in 235 — and backed off the grueling performance schedule she'd been under since she was just a kid herself.
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He's backed off of federal investigations into local police, removing a tool for oversight that the Obama administration used to uncover abuses and outright racist practices at police departments across the country.
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Trump argued sprinklers were too expensive to install in every structure, but he eventually backed off his opposition when city officials exempted buildings already constructed—like Trump Tower—or with constructionpermits on file.
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He backed the "patient" stance the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee has adopted in 2019, a year in which it backed off previous intentions to increase its benchmark interest rate at least twice.
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After August, all the pieces will be in place for the US and North Korea to start talking about peace, now that the US appears to have somewhat backed off the military drills.
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It's a turnaround for Senate Republicans, who briefly debated repealing the individual mandate while keeping the rest of Obamacare earlier this year, but ultimately backed off over fears this would destabilize the markets.
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As Buzzfeed pointed out earlier in the day, the movement's coming-out party has happened right after Trump backed off his plan to deport all of the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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Both companies are controlled by the Redstone familys National Amusements Inc, which pushed for a merger last year but backed off as CBS explores other options before deciding on another run at Viacom.
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Pepper's loan book jumped 36 percent in 2016, compared with the banking sector's 6.5 percent credit growth, as big banks backed off riskier lending in response to regulators' concerns about ballooning household debt.
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Later, he backed off on many of the details after Brazilian police alleged that he had vandalized a gas station bathroom – and that a security guard was simply trying to recoup their losses.
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Trump has said some U.S. trading partners, particularly China, manipulated their currency, but has since backed off that claim and acknowledged that China had not weakened the yuan to make its exports cheaper.
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Though the Labor Department had released a rule that would require financial advisors to operate in your best interest when handling your retirement savings, the agency has backed off on enforcing the regulation.
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He backed off demands that the spending package include a down payment on his promised border wall, as well as his threat to stop reimbursing health insurers who cover low-income ObamaCare enrollees.
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In 2014, supporters of the Bundy brothers' father, Cliven, rallied to his side in a dispute with the Bureau of Land Management, but the feds backed off before the incident could turn violent.
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In early 2018, he proposed increasing the minimum age required to buy assault weapons in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, but he backed off after meeting with National Rifle Association leaders.
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He backed off from repeating that during Tuesday night's debate but pointed out that his time in office during the Watergate presidential scandal in the 1970s contributed to his support for Trump's impeachment.
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I shouted WILL YOU PEOPLE GIMME SOME GODDAMN SPACE and they backed off while my wife looked on with concern, wondering if maybe she had entrusted her finest bags to the wrong man.
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But Trump backed off that support in office, and the White House has recently criticized Pelosi's bill, in favor of a somewhat more modest bipartisan measure to lower drug prices in the Senate.
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Why it matters: The Obama administration reportedly backed off and even hampered a Drug Enforcement Administration campaign targeting Hezbollah's trafficking in order to secure the Iran nuclear deal, as Politico reported last month.
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Both companies are controlled by the Redstone family's National Amusements Inc, which pushed for a merger last year but backed off as CBS explores other options before deciding on another run at Viacom.
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Sources who were present at Saturday's rehearsal tell us, both Faye and Warren wanted to announce the winner and went back and forth, but eventually Warren backed off and Faye got her way.
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In particular, it now appears that recession fears that emerged at the end of 2018 were misguided — especially once the Fed backed off its campaign of rate increases at the start of 2019.
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Record executives, including Anthony Tiffith, the chief executive of the rapper Kendrick Lamar's label, said it wasn't appropriate to police the behavior of certain artists, and Spotify backed off the policy weeks later.
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" The association backed off after a stream of criticism, including from Brad Paisley, a major star and one of the night's hosts, who said on Twitter that the guidelines were "ridiculous and unfair.
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GM Cruise, which backed off its timetable for launching a robotaxi fleet in San Francisco this year, is meanwhile trying to win favor with city leaders and residents with a public awareness campaign.
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To keep its contents from the public, the C.I.A. considered buying up all copies of the book but backed off when the publisher, Random House, made clear that it would simply print more.
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The university later backed off its plans to sell works and, after settling a lawsuit brought by the museum's supporters, pledged to keep the Rose "a university art museum open to the public."
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In a letter to the House, it urged Republicans not to vote for the bill, which offers banks relief from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, unless those firms backed off the gun industry.
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While both Tehran and Washington have backed off from intensifying their conflict, the leader of Lebanon's heavily armed Hezbollah group called on Sunday for Tehran's allies to begin working to avenge Soleimani's killing.
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On Thursday, he lashed out at JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, alleging the banker doesn't have the "smarts" to be president after Dimon claimed he could best Trump (he backed off almost immediately).
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Earlier this month, North Korea backed off a threat to fire missiles toward Guam, a U.S. territory, but in a statement warned the U.S. that leader Kim Jong Un could change his mind.
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"The way to get the Fed's attention again means threatening to fire Powell, but he seems to have backed off of that," said Sarah Binder, a political science professor at George Washington University.
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And he remarked to friends and associates about how Barack Obama looked "weak, just so, so weak," as one adviser recalled it, when he condemned the Syrian regime but backed off military action.
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Trump said on Thursday that he had been prepared to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico, but backed off after calls from the leaders of those two countries.
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When the group later migrated to a bedroom, De Paula said she fled to the kitchen, but was followed by a nude Weinstein, who backed off only after she brandished a broken wine glass.
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Kevin O'Leary arrived in L.A. Monday night, and he has reason to breathe a sigh of relief, because prosecutors have backed off their claim his wife could be jailed over their fatal boat crash.
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More recently, he hinted that he'd stop making subsidy payments to keep insurers in Affordable Care Act markets if Democrats didn't fund his border wall as part of the 2017 budget—then backed off.
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This blowout GDP report — though subject to revision — shows that the economic cycle might have more room to run, putting the Federal Reserve, which has backed off on raising rates, in a tough spot.
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Speaking Tuesday at the Barclays event, Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank told attendees that the amount of capital "has backed off" recently, and that he has witnessed competitors taking on excessive risk with borrowers.
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Meanwhile, Trump also reportedly tried to have Mueller fired last June, one month after Comey's ouster, and only backed off when McGahn threatened to resign if he was forced to carry out Trump's order.
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The oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf had been closed for more than a year, and the Islamic State militants advancing on them backed off after three days of shelling and clashes.
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He began the campaign touting his high-level national security clearance -- though he has backed off his emphasis on the clearance after reports that he only held it for five months before leaving Rep.
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The White House has backed off its push for funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a bill to keep the government open past April 28, when funding expires.
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He backed off his promise to label China a currency manipulator during his first 100 days, decided to keep the Ex-Im Bank after criticizing it during the campaign and warmed up to Yellen.
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The president earlier this month said he was considering declaring a national emergency to direct construction of the wall, but he later backed off the idea and said he'd prefer Congress address the issue.
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" But he backed off the idea during his Senate run in Texas last year, calling for "achieving universal health care coverage — whether it be through a single-payer system, a dual system or otherwise.
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He has since backed off that idea but has put forward other proposals outside of GOP orthodoxy, including a bid to cut Medicare drug prices by tying them to lower prices in other countries.
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In the House, moderate Republicans backed off their plan to force an up or down vote on protecting the young people through a discharge petition when Ryan promised them he'd craft a comprehensive plan.
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But Luján backed off last week after the Congressional Black Caucus — roughly 45 lawmakers strong — sent Democratic colleagues a letter insisting that one of their members should hold one of the top two slots.
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Bashar al Kiki, chairman of the Nineveh Provincial Council and the source of the death toll, backed off the figure Sunday, saying that 200 was the death toll from multiple locations, citing his sources.
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President Obama backed off of plans to construct a missile defense shield in Europe that would have protected American interests in the region and served as a strong deterrence to both Russia and Iran.
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But New Jersey Democrats backed off the plan after criticisms from by the state's Democratic governor, the head of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and national media like the New York Times Editorial Board.
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But in the wake of the Apollo Moon landings, the United States and the Soviet Union both backed off, and began favoring policies of détente, or an easing of tensions, on and off Earth.
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Kyrie Irving recently backed off his commitment to re-sign with the Celtics this summer, and Irving is viewed as a critical piece in convincing Davis to re-sign with the Celtics in 2020.
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But members of the group, the House Freedom Caucus, apparently backed off rather than face likely defeat on an impeachment vote that was seen by many as a frivolous attempt to exact political revenge.
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Graham — one of the most notable Republican advocates for both hawkish national security positions and protections for young undocumented immigrants — had recently backed off criticism of Trump as he pushed for his policy goals.
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Mr. Nunes's act has kept alive the prospect of impeding or ending the investigation even as President Trump has backed off his efforts to fire the man in charge, the special counsel, Robert Mueller.
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President Emmanuel Macron's government has backed off on a planned fuel tax increase, but that has done little to assuage the protesters, whose outrage has morphed into a broader outcry at his economic policies.
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And he's retreating only in the face of bipartisan public fury, as he did when he backed off his plan to hold next year's G7 at the Trump National Doral, his failing Florida resort.
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I believe that according to international law, in order for us to do that, there has to be an imminent threat, which the administration first said there was and then backed off that claim.
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Trending down: Twitter backed off on a plan to delete a bunch of inactive accounts after people complained that tweets from lots of prominent people who have died would disappear if it followed through.
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China's yuan also backed off, having hit its highest level since July overnight after the U.S. Treasury Department said it had removed the currency manipulator tag it had imposed on the country in August.
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Based on how things turned out that year, it appears the administration and Congressional Republicans backed off much of the spending cut push as a compromise to get the Trump tax cut plan passed.
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The All-Star forward Draymond Green backed off a comment earlier in the week that Dolan displayed a "slave master mentality" toward Oakley, who was removed from the Garden last week by security guards.
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In the winter of 2016, for example, barely a year ago, the central bank backed off plans for more rate increases after a steep stock market sell-off and a rise of economic pessimism.
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"Consumers (for nickel) have backed off with Chinese analysts pointing to concerns around the state of their stainless steel industry high output, elevated stockpiles," Alastair Munro at broker Marex Spectron said in a note.
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Still, after lobbying by NATO allies, including the United States, Erdogan backed off from a threat to block defense plans for the Baltic states and Poland unless allies declared Kurdish fighters in Syria terrorists.
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Pruitt's aides were also reported to have looked into leasing a private jet on a month-to-month basis last year but backed off when they learned it would cost roughly $6900,2628 a month.
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The following year the Hermès chief executive, Patrick Thomas, effectively compared the unwelcome approach to a "rape" (they eventually made peace and Mr. Arnault backed off, after reaping a tidy profit from his investment).
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The Walt Disney Company has backed off its decision to blacklist the Los Angeles Times from advance film screenings following the paper's investigation into Disney business dealings that the company felt was unfairly critical.
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Port Everglades and Port Palm Beach, located in Riviera Beach, Florida, were both scheduled to sign memorandums of understanding with Cuba in January, but they backed off after Scott tweeted his opposition Jan. 25.
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They are not inclined to punish him, they say, even after he backed off his hard lines on NATO, the Chinese and the Export-Import Bank, and attacked Syria after having opposed such intervention.
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In April, he backed off from a threat to withdraw from NAFTA after he said Canadian and Mexican leaders telephoned him asking him to halt a planned executive order in favor of opening discussions.
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Netanyahu's government backed off initial plans to deport them, but in early April reneged on an agreement with the United Nations that would give them permanent status in Israel, leaving the refugees in limbo.
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Though Trump has made a lot of hostile noises about the Canadian lumber and dairy industries, he seems to have backed off a broader tax on goods entering the US after big corporations objected.
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Davie police spokesman Mark Leon tells news outlets that officers began chasing the pickup after the man shot at a car Thursday evening, but he says they backed off when the man began driving erratically.
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Recently the Trump administration has backed off earlier pledges to deport anyone in the country illegally — Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Thursday "there will be no mass deportations" after he met with Mexican officials.
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The move comes five years after PharMerica received an unsolicited bid from rival Omnicare Inc, which subsequently backed off from a hostile takeover after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission challenged the move on antitrust grounds.
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What to watch: President Trump backed off his initial threat to tax everything else the U.S. imports from China ($325 billion worth of goods), telling reporters that he "hasn't made a decision" on that yet.
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But in the final months before the bills went to a vote, they backed off, switching from opposition to support after SESTA was changed to focus on platforms that provide "knowing assistance" to trafficking ventures.
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On Tuesday, Trump seemingly backed off in a meeting with legislators, during which he was often incoherent and seemed confused about his own priorities and positions, saying that he'd accept any bill Congress agreed on.
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Washington (CNN)One of the attorneys general that was threatening to challenge the Trump administration on DACA has backed off his threat, citing a "human element" in his calculation and urging Congress to act instead.
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AND THE OTHER BIG LEVEL, I THINK IT'S EVEN BIGGER, IS 3.22 ON THE TEN-YEAR, WHICH WE DID CLOSE THAT, THAT WAS THE HIGH CLOSE THIS YEAR AND THEN WE BACKED OFF PRETTY NICELY.
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Less than 24 hours after news broke that Twitter was suing the federal government to protect the privacy of the person or persons behind a popular "rogue" anti-Trump account, the government has backed off.
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Merkel's open door policy toward refugees, which she has since backed off somewhat, won plaudits abroad but also contributed to the rise of the far right and piled pressure on the center-right ruling parties.
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Brady joked about Trump's possibly putting a putting green on the White House lawn and said that he thought it "would be great" if Trump won the election, though he later backed off that comment.
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Mr. Trump, above at a cabinet meeting this week, backed off his threat to send the suspect in the terrorist attack in New York this week to the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Todd: I'm glad you brought up the camerawork, Constance, because I noticed that director Kari Skogland (who also directed last week's "Baggage") substantially backed off the wide shots that characterized the season's first three episodes.
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Youzhny, who plans to play in one more tournament — in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September — received medical treatment for several minutes, and then backed off the court and into his retirement from Grand Slam tennis.
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By the end of the week, the seat-of-the-pants president had backed off his threat but had retaliated with the beginning of a purge of the aides who had tried to contain him.
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He showed some early signs of hope when, as president-elect, he seemed willing to challenge the unjust "One China" policy on Taiwan, but he has since backed off from his tough talk against Beijing.
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Also out of Washington: Prosecutors said the former Trump aide Michael Flynn should be jailed for up to six months, shifting from greater leniency after he backed off a cooperation deal and grew antagonistic. 2700.
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Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump backed off his demand for immediate funds to build a wall along the Mexican border, easing the path of a spending bill to keep the government running past Friday.
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Officials insisted the summit was a success: notably, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan backed off from an apparent threat to block plans to defend northern and eastern Europe unless allies declared Kurdish fighters in Syria terrorists.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has backed off a threat he made this month to impose tariffs on Brazilian metal, a move that would have broken a previous agreement with the country and risked reigniting trade tensions.
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The California Democrat's request comes after the Justice Department backed off a previous recommendation for a seven-to-nine-year sentence for Stone for impeding federal investigations into connections between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
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The president also backed off plans to put a price cap on compliance credits refiners must submit to the EPA and supports lifting restrictions on the sales of higher ethanol blends of gasoline, the source said.
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With an election due in three months and a hostile new administration in the White House, Iran's hardliners seem to have backed off from trying to reclaim the presidency for their faction, at least for now.
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The president has already indicated his unhappiness with the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates and the central bank has backed off (A Fed pivot, born of volatility, missteps and new economic reality, Reuters, Feb. 22).
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He has backed off his pledge to label China a currency manipulator and reaffirmed America's commitment to a "One China" policy, preferring to work with China to counter the threat presented by North Korea's nuclear program.
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Trump backed off from an initial U.S. demand for a "sunset" clause that would kill the pact unless it was renegotiated every five years and which businesses said would stymie long term investment in the region.
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Nyquist, the unbeaten favorite at the Kentucky Derby, broke early, backed off for a beat and then charged outside — a perfectly timed and executed race — to win the Run for the Roses on Saturday in Louisville.
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In an interview with The New York Times, the Heritage Foundation fellow and former Wall Street Journal editorial board member backed off on earlier criticism he had for the Fed and specifically its chairman, Jerome Powell.
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And GOP senators fumed during a closed-door meeting with Vice President Pence late last year after Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria caught them flat-footed — the president has since backed off his decision.
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Trump previously said he would love to sit down with Mueller, but has since backed off, calling the accusations of collusion between Russia and his campaign a "hoax" and the investigation a "witch hunt" on Twitter.
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MANILA — A professed hit man who implicated President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines in extrajudicial killings backed off some of his earlier assertions of the president's involvement under tough questioning from a Senate committee on Thursday.
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The Russian warning comes after the U.S. backed off an initial indication it would impose additional sanctions on Russia for its alleged connection to a chemical attack earlier this month in the Syrian town of Douma.
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Lawmakers are responding to news reports this week that Trump, pressured by the vaping industry and worried about conservative opposition to tougher regulation, backed off a Food and Drug Administration proposed ban on flavored vaping products.
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Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, has backed off his latest threat to veto the budget after nine months of partisan gridlock that threatened to close schools and forced social-service agencies to lay off employees.
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Also of concern was the U.S. immigration crisis after Trump backed off an unpopular hardline policy that had led to children being separated from their parents when they crossed illegally into the United States from Mexico.
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Why it matters: Lanny Davis, Cohen's attorney, admitted he was one of CNN's anonymous sources for the story, but backed off his original claim instead saying Cohen does not know if Trump knew about the meeting.
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Even the way the stock market backed off early this year after a relatively brief phase of exuberant upside shows this to be a more orderly, less heedless market than the very end of the '90s.
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Here are some: Trump backed off some of his most alarming decisions ... A week ago, Trump shocked his own security chiefs with an announcement that he had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House.
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The president has already indicated his unhappiness with the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates and the central bank has backed off ("A Fed pivot, born of volatility, missteps and new economic reality", Reuters, Feb. 22).
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Earlier this year, the administration backed off more strictly enforcing the so-called individual mandate, which is designed to lower the average premium cost by widening the pool of subscribers to include more younger, healthier people.
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"We had the momentum most of the first period and they definitely came out hard in the second and we kind of backed off more than we wanted to," said Murray, who finished with 230 saves.
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Also of concern was the U.S. immigration crisis after Trump backed off an unpopular hardline policy that had led to children being separated from their parents when they crossed illegally into the United States from Mexico.
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