Sentence examples for backtracked about from inspiring English sources

After initially proposing a one-year ban for Contador, it backtracked about a year ago and cleared him in the case, prompting the appeal to CAS.

The Pentagon once said thousands of people [in the Gulf War] might have been unnecessarily exposed, and then backtracked to about nine hundred people".

But hopes in the markets soon diminished after wealthy member states backtracked on pledges about using eurozone funds to recapitalise banks amid furious debate over what was agreed and how the accord would be implemented.

Tea Party Republicans assailed Mr. Rove, who quickly backtracked and then bragged about funneling money to Ms. O'Donnell's campaign.

At the fraud trial of members of the Rigas family yesterday, a former investor relations director for the Adelphia Communications Corporation backtracked on earlier testimony about margin loans.

Trump has since backtracked on his statements about torturing suspects and killing family members of terrorists, but the fact that he said these things at all is telling.

On August 5th, when it held interest rates at 2%, it backtracked on its earlier optimism about growth, suggesting it would raise rates later rather than sooner.

"They backtracked from their earlier assessment about the downside risks to growth," said Lawrence H. Meyer, vice chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers and a former Fed governor.

So the normally stubborn Mr Kirchner backtracked, allowing exports to reach about 65% of their 2005 level and offering beef producers subsidised credit and tax breaks to encourage them to increase output.

Sly, when pressed by Al Jazeera, backtracked, saying that his claims about supplying the drugs to athletes were "false and incorrect". .

Still, Wells Fargo's announcement was the second time a bank had backtracked on statements it had made about the extent of its foreclosure problems.