How To Use backdown In A Sentence
- The company is refusing to negotiate, with one executive telling the Washington Post that if it made any backdown, ‘our shareholders will be angry’.
- The end result is a complete backdown: his regular column in the paper's Metro section will be reinstated and he's also been offered a wider role writing for other parts of the paper.
- This is not a backdown or any of that stuff; it's a clarification of the position.
- It was a dramatic and embarrassing backdown for the Defence Department Secretary.
- The backdown is a tacit admission the free-to-air networks bungled their first attempt to pitch digital free-to-air TV to national consumers when they launched the Freeview brand in November. The Australian | News |
- Labor says the Prime Minister's been forced into an embarrassing backdown, labelling it a victory for commonsense.
- What is the Commission doing now that its backdown on disclosure was being strongly questioned by independent legal experts?
- The union backdown came only days after leading officials reaffirmed they would never agree to the plan to axe more that 3,500 jobs - almost 20 percent of the company's workforce.
- He described the backdown as a step in the right direction.
- It's unquestionably a backdown from full legalisation - but its also unquestionably an improvement all the same.
