Sentence examples for retract the comments from inspiring English sources

When pressed by the Dutch reporters, Hoekstra declined to retract the comments or give specific examples to back them up.

I respect the fact that governments of all colours are have had to fight terrorism and that this is a debate about how to fight terrorism, not whether to fight terrorism" but would not retract the comments".

And Donald Trump last week called for women who have abortions to be "punished" – though he was forced to retract the comments, after they provoked the biggest crisis of his campaign.

He called on her to retract the comments and apologize.

If desperate, you can even retract the comment, or say it was taken out of context.

But his failure to retract the comment seemed to make things worse.

He later retracted the comments but refused to resign.

Bosingwa described the Norwegian referee as a "thief" and a "disgrace" in a post-match interview before later retracting the comments.

London's transport commissioner, Sir Peter Hendy, last week described the trains of Southern's sister company, Southeastern – also run by Govia – as "shit" but on Wednesday retracted the comments as "unjustified".

Although he hastily retracted the comments as markets took fright European bank shares fell sharply Mr Dijsselbloem had merely revealed in public what northern European creditor nations say in private.

Aso retracted the comments on Wednesday after criticism that he appeared to be defending Hitler's motives for the genocide of millions of Jews during the second world war.