Sentence examples for some backtracking from inspiring English sources

That's quite some backtracking.

As only 132 members voted, with 80 in favour, there has since been some backtracking.

Today, Mr. Putin did some backtracking, saying: "Nobody is going to admit Russia into NATO.

And that was before he took a couple of wrong turns and had to do some backtracking.

There has been some backtracking from the broadcaster since the understandably hostile reaction in Australia to his comments.

One person from Steinbrenner's intimate circle figured that he woke up yesterday, read the newspaper, realized that he should not have tweaked Jeter again and decided to play semantics and do some backtracking.

Chaney followed the apology with some modest backtracking.

As well as the religion, there is also some almighty backtracking and double-crossing.

If so, the first Mrs Beeton was not yet human (and there has certainly been some evolutionary backtracking among her televisual descendants).

Petrenko himself has responded with some clumsy backtracking, claiming that he was talking about "the situation in Russia, my homeland" and pointing out that his wife is a choral conductor.

The regrading of A-levels after allegations they had been deliberately lowered was followed by delays in teacher vetting by the Criminal Records Bureau and then some frantic backtracking on her promise to resign if primary school targets in maths and English were not met.