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"climbdown" Definitions
  1. an act of admitting that you were wrong, or of changing your position in an argument

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That would amount to a painful climbdown for Mr. Trump.
That made the NBA's initial climbdown and apology particularly jarring.
The climbdown over the bill will raise questions over Lam's future.
The subsequent climbdown has been as swift as it has been surprising.
And Mr Kim could present one to his citizens as an American climbdown.
The biggest climbdown, however, was over the border with the Republic of Ireland.
The withdrawal, less than a year after the designation, looks like a climbdown.
Even when announcing the climbdown, the White House showed unusual deference to Putin.
Strajnar said this recent climbdown is most likely just profit taking by investors.
The climbdown from Weibo comes amid a broad crackdown in China on online content.
Women in 60 cities across the country took part, resulting in a government climbdown.
For Mr Erdogan, the terms of the rapprochement with Israel are a significant climbdown.
After last week's climbdown, who believes that he would carry through on that threat?
The President's apparent climbdown has dismayed some Republicans, including his onetime GOP primary foe, Sen.
A climbdown on this issue would represent more than a huge embarrassment for the President.
Trump-Putin II delayed The trade deal issue was not the only climbdown on Wednesday.
Anyone hoping that American Airlines' climbdown might signal a reversal of that trend should think again.
Republicans in Congress, while working to find a legislative climbdown for the president, similarly restrained themselves.
However, Trump is already coming under significant pressure from conservatives denouncing the proposal as a climbdown.
Chief Executive Michael O'Leary's climbdown allows unions for the first time in Ryanair's 33-year history.
" As they further explained, this pattern of drama followed by climbdown is "getting eerily familiar in Washington.
In a rare climbdown, the provincial government eventually dissolved the old village committee and allowed free elections.
Concessions are easier to make when they do not involve a climbdown by the person offering them.
That represents a tacit climbdown by Mr Maduro, who has always denied the existence of a humanitarian emergency.
But what the world learned from this climbdown is that Trump's threats are as empty as his promises.
Apple blamed a number of factors for the climbdown in guidance, including weakness in China's economy and disappointing iPhone revenue.
In the eyes of Mr López Obrador critics, it is he, not Mr Trump, who has performed a humiliating climbdown.
It is an embarrassing climbdown for her party, which has campaigned for a capital-gains tax for almost a decade.
Trump's climbdown threatened his standing among his grass roots army for whom his wall is an almost mystical rallying cause.
The company's present climbdown to just disable the button rather than allow us to use it otherwise is embarrassingly user-hostile.
If—or more likely when—tight security fails, the combination of controversial legal opinion and general shock risks a humiliating climbdown.
The minute either side starts setting out goals and demands in public, positions become hardened and compromise becomes an embarrassing climbdown.
While Trump's climbdown on tariffs this week is related to consumer goods, China should realize that its best leverage is commodities.
The humiliating climbdown aims to defuse street protests; but she'll need more to regain the confidence of corporate bosses, investors and citizens.
But the stakes are set so high that a face-saving climbdown for all parties is going to be hard to achieve.
He appeared to acknowledge his weakness later in a tweet he posted after absorbing the unflattering TV news coverage of his climbdown.
For countries across the region, it marked a welcome climbdown after the killing of Soleimani raised the specter of region-wide war.
Republican Senator Mike Braun acknowledged lawmakers' personal comfort had something to do with the Republican climbdown to a somewhat more relaxed schedule.
So unless his team's rosy predictions come true, Trump will find himself unable to curb Iran's nuclear activity without a humiliating climbdown.
IF YOU need a pretext for a political climbdown in Latin America, they don't come much better than a plea from the pope.
The Polish president announced a climbdown on the media restrictions Tuesday, but last Friday's events will have serious consequences in the longer term.
Israel's decision to withdraw the metal detectors and other security devices marked a significant climbdown by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government.
The move would cause huge controversy because it would essentially accept the North as a nuclear power -- a climbdown from the administration's previous position.
It's not as if there are no ideas for how to fix the situation that do not involve an abject climbdown by either side.
Macris, who has spent the last four years trying to clear his name, at the time called the fine a "major climbdown" by the FCA.
In a rare climbdown following the protests, Nazarbayev in August deferred a plan to lease large areas of farmland to foreign investors for five years.
Trump's firm stance appears to reflect a belief that immigration is so crucial to his connection with his political base that a climbdown is unthinkable.
It represents an embarrassing climbdown for Boris Johnson, who made a "do or die" pledge to take Britain out of the EU on October 31.
But Trump's change of tack may be seen by Beijing as a climbdown, said Tom Rafferty, the China Regional Manager for the Economist Intelligence Unit.
This sort of thing has been tried in small ways by previous administrations, usually only to be met with retaliation and an eventual mutual climbdown.
A year into that dispute, MBS' allies -- the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt -- are still entrenched, refusing anything but a climbdown by Qatar's Emir.
Perhaps his climbdown was warranted, given it now appears Japan's economy likely contracted for the first time in two years in the three months to March.
Progressive activists looking to influence the primaries won't be happy — or quiet — if a candidates' specifics look like a climbdown from the big ideas that Rep.
The biggest climbdown of all has been the Chequers plan of July, when Prime Minister Theresa May strong-armed her Cabinet into backing a softer Brexit.
It is likely, though not guaranteed, that in the short-to-medium term, Erdogan will employ fiery rhetoric to set the stage for an eventual climbdown.
Alongside China, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Switzerland, Brazil and New Zealand, the EU also took the case to the WTO and eventually forced a U.S. climbdown.
It represents an embarrassing climbdown for the prime minister, who made a "do or die" pledge to take Britain out of the EU on October 31.
The bank lowered its 2019 and 2020 profitability targets in December, blaming a drop in dealmaking, negative interest rates and global trade tensions for the climbdown.
Between the lines: This confusing week in U.S.-China relations has seen signs of a major climbdown from China, over trade, in parallel with a major escalation.
This is a significant climbdown for Trump, who has insisted he will not sign any bill into law unless it includes billions of dollars in wall funding.
The last-ditch agreement with her rebellious Interior Minister Horst Seehofer represents a significant climbdown for Merkel, who had welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants to Germany.
This climbdown was not a surprise, but it does conceal a surprising admission: that American monetary policy is constrained, in part, by conditions in global financial markets.
Unconventional method Trump may still attempt such a pivot when he visits the island on Tuesday, though that would require a climbdown after his approach this weekend.
The focus on the election called for December 12th may have disguised this humiliating climbdown, but it is sure to be highlighted by opponents in the campaign.
They add that Carney has backed himself into a corner and a climbdown from what is priced in would be too risky for credibility at this point.
"What the market needs is a signal of some relaxation in trade rhetoric, a bit of climbdown," said Salman Ahmed, chief investment strategist at Lombard Odier Investment Managers.
May's climbdown took much of the heat out of a series of votes on Wednesday that could have ripped control of the entire process away from the government.
U.S. officials and experts don't think the North can yet reliably strike the U.S. mainland, but suspect Kim's worries over potential U.S. action may have prompted the climbdown.
"The bottom line is that the Fed's recent climbdown will not be enough to prevent economic growth from slumping to below its potential pace this year," Hunter said.
Cascading economic and political damage eventually forced Trump to approve a three-week resolution to reopen the government—a humiliating climbdown for the president on his signature issue.
The offer price, which valued Healthineers' equity at 28 billion euros, was seen by some market participants as a climbdown by Siemens to stoke interest in the issue.
Trump is saying Obama's climbdown was bad, and that he's better for following through on attacking Syria after regime forces used chemical weapons again in 2017 and 2018.
But investing in the UN-led peace process would involve making concessions to the Houthis, a humiliating climbdown for the Saudi crown prince after four years of conflict.
"Today's outcome represents a major climbdown by the F.C.A., after four years that I have spent fighting to clear my name," Mr. Macris said in a statement on Tuesday.
Shutdowns usually end when either side, the President or Congress, begins to feel unbearable pressure and the cost of going on outweighs the political damage sustained by a climbdown.
The move is seen as a rare climbdown for Prime Minister Viktor Orban who wanted to avert a potentially awkward referendum on the issue sought by the opposition Socialists.
Tria's departure would be unlikely to go down well with markets, even though his credibility as a guarantor of public accounts has been damaged by his climbdown over the budget.
Barring an unlikely climbdown by either side, there is no obvious way out of an escalation that could damage the world economy, hurt US consumers and prejudice Trump's reelection hopes.
Along with his climbdown on fares he has offered to set up a "dialogue table" including a cross-section of society about grievances such as the high cost of living.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam suspended the bill in a dramatic climbdown, saying she had heard the protesters "loud and clear", but the activists are demanding the bill be scrapped altogether.
But several of his own MPs, led by his predecessor as prime minister and long-term rival Tony Abbott, forced him into a climbdown by threatening to vote against the legislation.
One reason often cited by traders for the dollar's climbdown is that its relative yield attraction is at risk as the world's major central banks are seen winding up their stimulus.
Sunday's demonstration came in spite of Lam indefinitely delaying - though not withdrawing - the bill on Saturday in a dramatic climbdown that threw into question her ability to continue to lead the city.
Backers of May hailed the deal as a personal victory for a beleaguered PM, while critics noted the accord amounted to a huge climbdown in the face of dogged intransigence by EU negotiators.
First, the rush by both the White House and Democrats to clarify the terms of what is being discussed have tempered initial interpretations that he was about to preside over a monumental climbdown.
The partial climbdown on tariffs is a ray of hope for business people who want Trump to take a "declare victory and go home" approach to the trade conflict, hence the market surge.
But the mockery turned to strange new respect this week when, after BuzzFeed credited Carlson for yet another climbdown, the Fox host received heaps of confused praise for apparently helping avert a war.
They led a public protest in the city of Atyrau in April that triggered street rallies elsewhere and forced Nazarbayev to shelve a planned land reform in what amounted to a rare climbdown.
That would be a departure from its principled insistence on multilateralism, but would avoid a climbdown of the sort that Mr Trump might take as incentive to try the same trick with other goods.
The surprise climbdown comes as Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the ruling National League for Democracy and the general's daughter, faces rising dissatisfaction in ethnic minority areas ahead of elections set for next year.
For Ackman, it marked a dramatic climbdown from his vocal support of the company, but should help soothe his own investors who had begun to show signs of concern about mounting losses in his portfolio.
The government had justified the previous 2.4 percent target as the way to throw off austerity and unleash growth in the euro zone's most chronically sluggish economy, so it loses some face over the climbdown.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Justice Minister Florin Iordache resigned on Thursday after a decree on corruption that he drafted triggered a week of street protests, international criticism and finally an embarrassing climbdown by the month-old government.
The climbdown by Switzerland's second-largest bank is rare and represents a victory for investors who are increasingly pushing for more modest pay in an industry where profits have fallen but pay has often remained high.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's steel industry will resolutely respond to any trade action taken by United States, the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) said on Tuesday as it hailed a climbdown by Washington in an antitrust case.
It was simply seen as an escalating move and a sign of hardening hearts, an indication that Trump's fans in the business community might not be getting the pre-election climbdown from trade war that they craved.
But after the manifestos were launched in mid-May, the Conservatives were quickly forced into an embarrassing climbdown on their signature policy on social care, which would have required more elderly people to dip into their housing wealth.
Short of a highly improbable climbdown by China, President Trump, confronting a strong re-election challenge from Democrats, is likely to maintain an aggressive public posture toward Beijing at least through the 2020 campaign cycle, experts tell Axios.
However, in an apparent climbdown, a government decree on Tuesday instructed the justice minister to compensate prisoners only at "the very last minute allowed by the law", and called for an immediate review of regulations governing such payments.
Lam's climbdown, with the approval of China's Communist Party leaders, was the biggest policy reversal since 1997 and presented a new challenge for Chinese President Xi Jinping who has ruled with an iron fist since taking power in 2012.
That could mark the beginning of a climbdown similar to that seen last year when widespread anger at Osborne's plans to reduce welfare payments for low-earners forced him to back down after a protracted and reputation-damaging row.
That pledge was forgotten on Wednesday when Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte promised European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to lower the deficit target to 2.04 percent, a climbdown from the initial 2.4 percent goal, equivalent to 6 billion euros of savings.
The delay is the latest climbdown in the ECB's attempt to reduce the bloc's 759 billion euros ($935 billion) of soured credit inherited from the financial crisis - a priority since it became the euro zone's top banking supervisor in 2014.
There's also speculation that Trump's proposed trade deal with Xi is far from the "massive" pact that he claims, and is in fact a climbdown to preserve his 2020 election hopes as Midwest farmers suffer and tariffs hit household budgets.
Macri's announcement, which marked a major climbdown in his IMF-backed efforts to balance Argentina's budget, came after his leftist rival Alberto Fernandez romped to a landslide victory in Sunday's primary election by drawing on popular anger at painful austerity measures.
Despite the EU now seeing that offering some concession on the so-called "backstop" might see the UK parliament approve the deal, to tweak it would require reopening negotiations -- a huge climbdown -- and defying the wishes of EU member Ireland.
But without a major climbdown from the Taliban, such as accepting a nationwide ceasefire which the group has thus far avoided, saying it gives them necessary leverage, it's difficult to see how these talks get the same momentum up again.
The government climbdown will be seen as an embarrassment for the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party ahead of elections likely in mid-2018, and underlines the power of religious groups in the nuclear-armed nation of 207 million.
And, third, Mrs Clinton does not want to advertise Mr Comey's climbdown at all, because any mention of her e-mails supports the logical fallacy that she did something seriously, even criminally, wrong—even though the FBI has concluded she did not.
In the end, according to people briefed on the behind-the-scenes ... between Hong Kong and Beijing over recent months, it was Mr Xi's administration that made the decision to pull the amendment — a rare and embarrassing climbdown for China's powerful president.
In a rare climbdown, he half-apologized to Oscar-winner movie actress Meryl Streep after once suggesting she had refused to wear a dress designed by him at an awards ceremony in favor of another she wanted to be paid to wear.
In a rare climbdown, he half-apologised to Oscar-winner movie actress Meryl Streep after once suggesting she had refused to wear a dress designed by him at an awards ceremony in favour of another she wanted to be paid to wear.
But so far street protests organised by the CGT and the hard-left France Unbowed party have shown no signs of forcing the government into a climbdown, and attendance at their marches has been lower than in past eras of labour strife.
However, while the climbdown is certainly embarrassing to both the Hong Kong and Beijing governments, it only maintains the status quo, as did a mass movement against an anti-sedition law in 2003, previously the largest protests Hong Kong had seen under Chinese rule.
The climbdown came just three weeks before planned votes on the proposal and is a victory for shareholders who opposed a change which would have removed the maker of Marmite, Dove soap and Ben & Jerry's ice cream from the benchmark FTSE 100 index .FTSE.
Trump's climbdown came after he faced intense pressure from across the political spectrum and from religious, political and world leaders to halt the separations, which produced days of heartrending news coverage of crying children -- some of whom were kept in cage-like detention centers.
For the prime minister who famously said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than ask the European Union for an extension, a defeat in the House of Commons will almost certainly mean an embarrassing climbdown and a lengthy extension of negotiations into 2020.
The SSM was forced into what seemed an embarrassing climbdown last year when Gualtieri and other senior EU lawmakers, mostly from Italy, accused it of encroaching on the European Parliament's prerogatives with plans to issue rules on how banks should deal with unpaid loans.
Some European finance ministers and EU officials I had talked to beforehand suggested they expected exactly this kind of climbdown and said they saw it as the natural consequence of a market keen to enforce disciplinary limits on Italy's most expansionist spending plans in a generation.
But the President's climbdown handed a victory to new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an epic confrontation that could set the tone for the next two years and augurs ill for his capacity to fight off what is shaping up as a punishing investigative and oversight operation.
The climbdown comes three weeks ahead of a vote on the plan and is a significant victory for UK shareholders big and small who opposed the move, which would have kicked the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry's ice cream out of the benchmark FTSE 100 index.
Lam's climbdown, with the approval of China's Communist Party leaders, was the biggest policy reversal since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997 and presented a new challenge for Chinese President Xi Jinping who has ruled with an iron fist since taking power in 2012.
The Trump administration moved quickly to implement a version of Trump's pledge to enact "extreme vetting" of travelers and a freeze on refugees from countries that pose "security concerns" — a climbdown from his initial proposal to ban all Muslim travel to the United States, which almost no Republican official supported.
However much Trump may want to avoid war, unless the two sides figure out a way to engage -- Trump by easing sanctions and Iran by making a concession to cover the President's climbdown -- there's a pretty good chance we'll be heading for an unnecessary and potential disastrous conflict with Iran, well before getting anywhere near the negotiating table.
But the climbdown did not head off a potential crisis, since if the Supreme Court takes up the case backed by the Justice Department and rules Obamacare unconstitutional -- likely next year, months before the election -- millions of Americans could lose their policies in a health care Armageddon, with the GOP committed to not providing a replacement until 2021 at the earliest.
Trump supporters will likely interpret Xi's comments as a climbdown to the president, who on Monday raged about the the 25 percent tariff imposed on U.S. cars exported to China compared to the 2.5 percent tax imposed on Chinese cars imported into the U.S. On Tuesday, Trump's son Donald Junior was among the first to congratulate the president: But the reality is that Beijing had already announced the levy reductions last year.

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