Sentence examples for was forced to backtrack from inspiring English sources

Mitterrand was forced to backtrack.

Mr. Gore was forced to backtrack in an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America".

The army, meanwhile, was forced to backtrack on a bewildering claim it had rescued all of the girls.

Last week, Romania's neighbor, Hungary, was forced to backtrack after senior government officials scared investors by declaring that the country risked becoming another Greece.

He was forced to backtrack, because many feared losing the little they have (and the opportunity for pilfering that state jobs offer).

Presidential candidate Marina Silva, a pentecostal evangelist, was forced to backtrack on proposals for same-sex marriage, despite being viewed by many as a liberal, progressive figure.

In his absence, the company has been forced to backtrack on several occasions.

The family of Roald Dahl has been forced to backtrack on a fundraising campaign designed to rescue the hut in which the author wrote his tales.

Microsoft has been forced to backtrack after it closed down a whistleblowing website after it published a leaked version of the company's "spy guide".

Now, it has been forced to backtrack, to try to accommodate both the influx of Syrian refugees and nearly 35,000 Jordanian and expatriate children who have transferred, mostly for financial reasons, from private to public schools this year.

The Bank has been making soothing noises about the eventual increases in interest rates being slow and limited, but other central banks around the world have been forced to backtrack after raising borrowing costs.