Sentence examples for thing back down from inspiring English sources

But all too often town officials who want to do the right thing back down in the face of vocal but misinformed opposition.

Without this order, said another official with knowledge of the government's case, "there would have had to be a lot of summertime activity on the stay request, and that might have prompted them to buck the whole thing back down" to the appeals court.

We have to dial this thing back down.

"The wind kept blowing things back down our throats.

Or, to bring things back down to earth with Elvin's reasons for quitting, "a lot of noise".

More or less countrified pieces by Mr. Teirstein brought things back down to Earth, in more ways than one.

RacingCertainty brought things back down to earth: How appropriate that Team GB has won its first gold medal sitting down and going backwards.

The Express, as ever, brings things back down to earth, first by comparing Trimble with Germaine Greer and Michelle Obama and then this, by way of explanation for some of the negative press: "It's very British, this mistrust of clever people.

What changes have you made at Federal Realty over the last nearly 10 years? A. Our company has always been all about high-quality retail real estate, but we had lost our way a bit in the '90s and my job was really to come in and settle things back down.

Meanwhile Naomi Watts goes for the full tart-with-a-heart caricature as pregnant Russian stripper Daka ("Gyeev me syaam dyollyars"), leaving McCarthy to dial things back down as a believably stressed single mum struggling to balance parenthood with inflexible working hours.

Eventually it will, however, and central banks will live up to perceived charters to ratchet things back down.