To do so, he fell back on his Midwestern roots.
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All three also fell back on the Strauss family for encores.
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J. went so all-out that he fell back on his chair.
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Many fell back on their children's favorites when time and energy ran low.
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And too often Thursday, his explanations fell back on his service with Obama.
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Clinton fell back on her foreign policy experience and her several major endorsements.
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Instead she fell back on a coterie of familiar counsellors less knowledgeable about Brussels.
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Indian officials and thought leaders fell back on tired rituals of obfuscation and denial.
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And then Rubio, disastrously, fell back on the robotic repetition of his stump speech.
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As we had before, we fell back on Patsy's for sustenance and absorbed another pie.
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Joule doesn't provide any plastic bags, so I fell back on some quart-size Ziplocs.
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So some private equity firms fell back on a time-tested moneymaking strategy: slashing costs.
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Verifiable information of any sort was in short supply, so people fell back on rumors.
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When things get tight, she fell back on an additional weapon — she knows how to volley.
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Instead he fell back on a reliable crutch: tethering himself to the legacy of President Obama.
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On Sunday, perhaps inevitably, Mr. Obama fell back on his remarks from Dallas and other previous speeches.
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But they also readily fell back on rhetoric and talking points that seemed designed for sound bites.
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I believe Chandler simply fell back on those flourishes too often, resulting in a low winning percentage.
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In the final months of the campaign, Mr. Najib fell back on tried-and-true money politics.
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But the commissioners were slow to engage in their work and fell back on the Common Lands grid.
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When asked about the accident at today's press event, Krafcik fell back on Waymo's comments from this weekend.
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Instead of unambiguously condemning this kind of violence, Trump fell back on one of his uglier talking points.
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Instead, Trump fell back on the old repeal-and-replace proposals that had circulated around Congress for years.
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John, 29 In high school, I definitely fell back on the fact that I was the sports guy.
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On the topic of immigration, the Republican candidate fell back on all too familiar rhetoric regarding Mexican immigrants.
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When things turned back to Trump personally, Pence had a variety of tricks that he fell back on.
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Without anything to report on beyond the sparse, brutal facts, the TV newsreaders fell back on their scripts.
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In her words In leaving out several prominent and viable contenders, the Academy fell back on its historic biases.
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But with no established techniques for interpreting archaeological material like the skull, he fell back on racism and phrenology.
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While some people praised her protest, many of those who derided her simply fell back on lazy, misogynist sexual innuendo.
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As a candidate, Mr. Trump fell back on the show-business defense long before the "Access Hollywood" tape came out.
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Instead, Russia's ambassador fell back on a familiar ritual of denying everything and passing the blame to anyone but Moscow.
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" Mr. Ohler fell back on his interest in sleuthing during the five years it took to research and write "Blitzed.
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So Mr Obama's lawyers fell back on arguing that America may fight IS because it is a descendant of al-Qaeda.
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In England especially, 85 percent of the population of Britain, many people fell back on national pride, cultural exceptionalism and nostalgia.
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Other Republican senators, meanwhile, fell back on political explanations for a bill that experts warn could result in millions losing their insurance.
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He instead touted Putin's vigorous denial and fell back on previous complaints about Hillary Clinton's emails and the Democratic National Committee's server.
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Yet, despite how well these shows recreated these microcosms of familial lawlessness, they always fell back on the same nuclear family ideals.
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When church leaders fell back on the standard FLDS legal tactic -- "answer them nothing" -- Jessop won a default judgment upward of $103 million.
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" To each and every question, Tillerson gave incomplete or evasive answers or fell back on his favorite line that he "needed more information.
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And Jason [Lee, who also stars in the movie], he's a good ol' country boy, obviously... we just fell back on mimicking our relatives.
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When food shortages appeared under Mikhail Gorbachev's 'perestroika' reforms in the final years of the Soviet Union many Russians fell back on their allotments.
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Cookie, too, was ready to bring down Leviticus and Juicy, the Queen Bee who runs it, but fell back on the plan as well.
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" Instead, Aldridge complained, Biggers "fell back on the image of Fat Albert, a comedic cartoon character," a move that Aldridge deemed "crass and irresponsible.
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The dollar, which has outperformed bonds and the S&P 21 this year thanks to rising yields and trade tariffs, fell back on Powell's comments.
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VIX futures contracts fell back on Tuesday to trade at a wide discount to the spot price, showing that traders expected volatility to fall sharply.
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"I fell back on my training from Camp McCrady, eyes out for the known signs that we were about to get blown up," he wrote.
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When pushed to confront the horror and uselessness of what they had done, the psychologists fell back on one of the oldest justifications of wartime.
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The spotlight fell back on Italy's banks Tuesday morning after prosecutors reportedly opened an investigation into alleged market manipulation by the Genoa-based Banca Carige.
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With Russia unable to compete economically or support its clients, its public fell back on a simple conviction: we are stronger because we are morally superior.
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He tried jobs and failed, and ultimately fell back on the one thing he knew, and wanted to get away from: his family's fried-chicken business.
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Chanon took a bullet in the leg and fell back on the fire, where he remained while the Germans checked the boys for signs of life.
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MILAN (Reuters) - European shares fell back on Thursday and marked their biggest monthly fall since June as profit taking kicked in after stellar gains this year.
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Model contract clauses are one of the alternative data transfer mechanisms that thousands of companies fell back on when that prior arrangement, Safe Harbor, was struck down.
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Ziegler, former President Ronald Reagan, and assorted members the George W. Bush administration all either fell back on it, or put its passive powers to active use.
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Ultimately, the sketch began, he fell back on the chair and landed hard on the stage, reportedly severely injuring his head to the point of near-paralysis.
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She forgot to say her own, which, in turn, tripped up audience members, who fell back on expressions like "you guys" for fear of getting it wrong.
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I fell back on the same approach — essentially racial profiling based on overall genetic ancestry and the names of the closest matches — for the profile labeled Casandra Reed.
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The dollar fell back on Friday despite the upbeat GDP report because core inflation slowed sharply, leading speculators to narrow the odds on a rate cut this year.
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The filmmaker has said he fell back on Shakespeare when writing the film, and even pulled stretches of dialogue from letters written in the era, and it shows.
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Mr. Trump, by contrast, fell back on the tricks he has learned from his years in pro wrestling and reality television, making clear how deep his cynicism goes.
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And later on Saturday, while speaking with reporters during his visit to the nearby field office, he fell back on what he implied was still his frontrunner status.
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" Huppi, one of the principal input engineers who developed the iPhone's initial touchscreen foundation, fell back on a quote he remembers reading in Merchant's book: "technology is morally neutral.
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" Asked for his personal opinion on affirmative action, he again fell back on talk of precedent: "I have to follow precedent and the precedent allows remedies in certain circumstances.
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Lacking any of the skills needed to pull off a policy revolution, Trump fell back on the laziest possible solution, which was to defer to the national security establishment.
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During "Hungry Heart," the hit single from "The River," he not only led the joyful singalong but also fell back on upstretched arms to crowd-surf up to the stage.
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In "Pagliacci," Mr. Alagna initially fell back on some formulaic phrasing and a certain grandstanding delivery that felt especially old-fashioned after the flickering, natural heat of Mr. Lee's singing.
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Again and again the media fell back on the label "flamboyant" to describe him, as if Prince's sheer stage presence swallowed up the public's ability to assess his musical talent.
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"Herman believes that the people of Skara Brae didn't eat rodents as their primary food source, but rather "as a snack or... something they fell back on or harder times.
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They realized that even though companies were providing more innovative benefits to attract employees, they still fell back on bouquets or fruit baskets when workers went through a hard time.
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In front of an enthusiastic crowd at an outdoor amphitheater near its Mountain View headquarters, the internet giant fell back on a familiar message: Artificial intelligence will change the world.
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I only wasted about 10 minutes waiting and hoping someone else would order a similar ride before I fell back on my usual, dependable ride-hailing apps, Uber and Lyft.
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Appearing ill-prepared and flummoxed by questions from reporters, President Trump fell back on his oft-repeated accusation that the FBI had failed to investigate thoroughly the rival he had defeated.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell back on Thursday, tracking a decline in Asian trading as weakness in Chinese markets eclipsed optimism that a NAFTA deal could be struck by Friday's deadline.
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He fell back on a widely panned comparison between the fatality rates of coronavirus and the common flu, the latter of which can kill tens of thousands of Americans a year.
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For years the City Council was more deferential to top commanders, and police officials fell back on the notion that they needed to enforce minor crimes to stave off serious disorder.
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Most fell back on the argument that Congress should set up an independent commission to investigate Russia's meddling in last year's presidential election and possible links between Trump's team and Moscow.
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Instead, the climate-conscious administrators in the Obama administration fell back on a series of executive orders and regulatory shifts, all promptly undone in the early days of the Trump White House.
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A conservative ideologue, she fell back on most policy questions to an assertion that states should make their own rules, even on settled matters of federal law, like access for handicapped children.
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LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - European shares fell back on Thursday as energy and banking stocks dragged broader indices, while retail was a bright spot after an upbeat set of results from Britain's Next.
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So when Trump soared in the polls, I fell back on my understanding of Bush from his Florida days, thinking the savvy pol could adeptly turn the rise of Trump to his advantage.
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But Collins sensed a glimmer of opportunity in the industry's rubble and fell back on a conversation he had had with the builder Tad King years earlier at a restaurant in Naples, Fla.
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Rather than presenting evidence, they said, it fell back on the sort of argument made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, that Huawei's security risks are self-evident: It's a Chinese company, full stop.
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Comey lacks any substantive argument to support his actions In defending his action, Mr. Comey fell back on a bad habit of his, one for which he has actually been congratulated in the past.
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Wade, he fell back on vague statements like, "It's settled as precedent of the Supreme Court," even though he himself said in a 2003 email that the Supreme Court can overturn any precedent it wishes.
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So Pastor Danny fell back on his usual tactic — improvisation — and raced into MS-218 territory, hoping to place himself at the mercy of Samuel, the MS-213 leader in the area, before someone died.
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When it came to the matter of how to pay for it, Mr Johnson fell back on the idea of a "Brexit dividend", an optimistic notion given that Brexit is expected to cost the exchequer money.
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And a parliamentary rejection could plunge Britain into a sudden, disruptive exit, reaping havoc on the economy as the UK fell back on World Trade Organization rules for trade with the EU, its largest trading partner.
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It meant spreading his talent thin, wearing out holes in the weaker spots as he repeatedly fell back on what could have made him special instead of what he was able to do well at that moment.
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During a week spent covering the fires in Northern California, I fell back on my training as a foreign correspondent: finding the satellite on the smoky horizon, locking in the phone's antenna and dictating paragraphs to patient editors.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell back on Wednesday as geopolitical tensions sent all major benchmarks into negative territory, accompanied by a slight uptick in volatility in what is typically a quiet period of summer trading for the market.
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Instead, after three years of provocations, attacks on political opponents and allies alike, and abrupt policy reversals, Republican lawmakers fell back on a set of neutral responses they have found crucial to navigating the choppy waters of Mr. Trump's presidency.
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Stealth policy on ISIS Predictably, when asked about how he'd deal with ISIS, Donald Trump fell back on his new tack: That he'd ask the generals to develop a plan within 30 days about how to defeat and destroy ISIS.
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Hillary Clinton has said that the Lewinsky affair and the spotlight it brought on her family was one of the most difficult times of her life, noting that she fell back on her friends, daughter and faith to get through it.
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In the first round there, she faced a match point in the second-set tiebreaker against the unseeded Misaki Doi of Japan and escaped only when Doi's shot hit the tape and fell back on Doi's side of the net.
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MILAN, March 3 (Reuters) - European shares fell back on Thursday, with chemicals maker Evonik among the worst performers, as investors took a breather after five straight days of gains brought a top European equity index to a one-month high.
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I fell back on a lot of my favorites this week, as the days gathered steam and things got too busy: salad with green goddess dressing, pasta, eggs and more eggs, delicious and pleasing and practically made from muscle memory.
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" Ted Cruz was his lovable self — at one point, when Trump fell back on his mantra about not wanting to see people "die on the streets," Cruz demanded to know if that meant the government had to "pay for everyone's health care.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's peso fell back on Friday afternoon to post a record low close, giving up earlier gains after a tumultuous week that saw the currency battered to its weakest ever level and local debt pummeled as anxious investors fled.
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" In Youngstown, he mainly fell back on the highlight reel from last year's campaign, promising to keep "radical Islamic terrorists" out of the United States, asserting that manufacturing jobs are "all coming back" and promising the "single biggest tax cut in American history.
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But another key factor was that the U.S. was honest in its public position: It accepted responsibility where warranted, and never fell back on language that could be perceived as belligerent, which limited just how much the incident was politicized in the U.S. and Iran.
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Osborne said Britain would lose 200 billion pounds ($287 billion) a year in trade in 15 years' time and miss out on the same amount in foreign investment, if it fell back on World Trade Organization rules to govern its ties with the EU after a Brexit.
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Instead of relying on the inherently transformative emphasis on characterization and deconstructing fantasy tropes that made Game of Thrones' earlier seasons compelling, Benioff and Weiss fell back on plot and spectacle and callbacks, even when it meant characters contradicted themselves or acted in highly inconsistent ways.
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Faced with the impossibility of depicting financial transactions, Woods and Galimberti fell back on four types of photos: clichéd metaphors; aggrandizing portraits; architectural documents; and poignant, prosaic photos of tax havens' coercive consequences on people — the inequality and exploitation rendered on the backs of the poor.
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They hadn't torn up their blueprint in that time away—they still built monumental walls of sound out of a standard set-up, still fell back on out-of-body drone moments, still reduced their songs to a whisper pretty quickly—but it was a worthwhile step forwards.
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For a Much-Needed Win, Self-Driving Cars Should Aim LowerAfter a self-driving Uber killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Arizona in March, the technology's defenders fell back on their usual arguments: Nearly 40,000 people die on US roads every year, and human error causes more than 90 percent of crashes.
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But they fell back on the deal that Mr. Silna had proposed — one-seventh of the television revenue received by each of the surviving A.B.A. teams — which was intended to survive as long as the N.B.A. The money was not big at first because the contract with CBS was modest.
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The pound, which soared after the election on hopes of an end to the uncertainty, fell back on fears that Britain could fail to come to terms with the European Union by the end of the transition period — triggering a so-called "no deal Brexit" that experts warn would be economically disastrous.
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Miz Cracker was also in the top, and I loved her first two outfits—a bikini made entirely of hair and a pink fur paratrooper that looked like a character from a French cartoon—but her Martian look was the sort of shiny silver retro-futurism that a bunch of the queens fell back on.
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Pelosi — who in her first floor speech in 1987 vowed to fight AIDS and who in 2002 was the most high-profile Democrat to vote against invading Iraq — fell back on the credibility she had with progressives to persuade them that the "public option" hybrid of single-payer and privately managed health care plans was now dead on arrival in the Senate.
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And when he drew some criticism from the left over his first few days on the trail, immigration was the strength he fell back on, pointing out to NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday: I'll tell you I also happen to be the only candidate from the United States–Mexico border at a time that that dominates so much of our national conversation and legislative efforts and the things that the president talks about.
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But he also added that "with all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea..." Trapped in a controversy of his own creation after tormenting Comey, the Congress, the press and the American public with the implication that he might have bugged the White House, Donald Trump fell back on one of his regular tricks, offering a unclear clarification and acting more like a bad magician than President of the United States.
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Schroepfer did sit through around five hours of grilling on a wide range of topics with the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal front and center — the story having morphed into a major global scandal for the company after fresh revelations were published by the Guardian in March (although the newspaper actually published its first story about Facebook data misuse by the company all the way back in December 2015) — though in last week's hearing Schroepfer frequently fell back on claiming he didn't know the answer and would have to "follow up".
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