Sentence examples for back off a proposal from inspiring English sources
He persuaded the White House to back off a proposal he knew would not succeed and joined with the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee, to overrule House-Senate negotiators and broker a compromise critical to winning the endorsement of AARP.
Other congressional sources said that Ryan has decided to back off a proposal he recently floated that would have imposed the Medicare changes on Americans 56 and younger.
President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, has backed off a proposal to remove Roman Catholic instruction from Bolivia's schools, easing a dispute with church officials over his plan to place greater emphasis on Indian faiths.
But under pressure from the health care industry, officials say, they are backing off a proposal to give patients a broad new right to sue and recover damages for the improper disclosure of confidential information.
PAGE A3 Curbing Alcohol at Festivals New York City officials have backed off a proposal to ban alcohol sales at street festivals, but will cut in half the number of such vendors at the Feast of San Gennaro.
Less than two weeks after the Giuliani administration announced a ban on alcohol sales along parade routes, city officials have backed off a Police Department proposal to end such sales at street festivals.
B1 Alcohol Ban Is Eased Less than two weeks after the Giuliani administration announced a ban on alcohol sales along parade routes, city officials backed off a police proposal to end sales at street festivals.
Learn to back off a little bit.
In 2008, Clinton backed off an earlier proposal for a national gun registry, but she has consistently advocated reenactment of an assault weapons ban and tightened regulations on gun show sales.
Los Angeles County supervisors backed off from a proposal Tuesday that would have required pharmaceutical companies to pay for a countywide drug take-back and disposal program, opting instead for a scaled-back voluntary program in the near term.
