Democrats fired back, suggesting that Republicans were backtracking under pressure from House conservatives allied with the Tea Party who were opposed to any compromise with Democrats in the budget debate.
Cambodia is discussing an NGO law that civil society groups fear could further stifle dissent in a society with minimal political opposition, although there are signs the regime is backtracking under international pressure.
With the end of his first year in office in sight, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg summoned his public safety staff members to City Hall yesterday and sought to dispel any perception that New York had backtracked under his lead.
But even before it is given a try, the group is considering backtracking, under prodding from state universities and community colleges that say that while the policy may help tamp down admissions pressure at the East Coast hot spots, it makes no sense for them.
This week the government backtracked.Under the Prevention of Terrorism bill, introduced to Parliament this week, house arrest would remain a potential tool in the government's ever-expanding anti-terrorist arsenal, but the government would first have to opt out of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing a right to liberty.
They're probably waiting for the damage to be permanent i.e. when enough folks place orders and the company will have to quickly backtrack and fold under indignant customers.
But Mr Rajoy is under pressure to backtrack.
On the other, no-one knows if Greece's unconventional, passionate politicians will in the end prefer to go down in political flames than backtrack on all their electoral promises under duress from EU institutions.
Then, speaking to CNN on Thursday night, he backtracked, saying that under a Trump Administration all undocumented immigrants would have to leave the country before applying for legal status.
Look at Italy, they say: in 2011 Silvio Berlusconi, then prime minister, pledged budget cuts and structural reforms under ECB pressure, only to backtrack as soon as the bank's intervention had cut interest rates.
