A few days ago on a flight to Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that the Assad regime seems to have backed away from further deployment of chemical weapons.
Theresa May's administration has back-pedalled further on disability tests, with the work and pensions secretary, Damian Green, revealing in October that chronically sick people claiming employment and support allowance would no longer have to prove every six months that they were still ill.
"After Ferguson," he says, "you had people who backed further into their corners".
The leading parties have refused to back further bailouts unless the country in question provides direct guarantees on the loans.
The opposition has threatened to back further protests unless Morsi meets five new demands including reforms to the constitution and the formation of a new salvation government, Ahram Online reports.
Labour has said it backs further restrictions on migrants' ability to claim benefits as a sign it understands public concerns about immigration.
Since then secondary data has been subdued...Accordingly, we are concerned that Poundland's first quarter trading momentum may have slipped back further, perhaps mid- single-digit sales growth rather than the double-digit momentum that investors have been used to since flotation and the 7.5% growth assumed in our previous forecasts.
The restorers, instead of reconstructing the Schloss as it was when the fire bombing occurred, have gone back further in time, re-creating long-lost elements of its Renaissance design.
Returning later to check the young seal, it was a relief for the men to see that it had gone back further out into the very cold water.
We've gone back further still, to the 1930s, and the fictional seaside town of Kiplington and its surroundings are not without their problems: poverty (there was a lot of it about at the time), chauvinism, a lack of ambition, council corruption, small town pettiness and narrow-mindedness.
The grounding line - the point where this shelf starts to become buoyant - has pulled back further and further towards the land.
