The teachers at Aberdeen High School remember him as withdrawn, someone the other kids would avoid.
Now that he is grown, his first impulse is always to withdraw before someone asks him to.
They may feel desperate or clingy when someone pulls away, then aloof and withdrawn when someone comes toward them.
Normally an honour is withdrawn if someone is guilty of a criminal offence, and it will be asked whether other knighted bankers should also see their honours withdrawn.
But Mr Osborne said he wanted to avoid a "cliff edge" effect - so it would now only be withdrawn when someone in a household earned more than £50,000, at a rate of 1% of the benefit for every £100 up until £60,000, when it would be cut entirely.
Before he could decide whether to withdraw, Kerrey writes, "someone shot at us from the direction of the women and children, trapping them in a crossfire.
To withdraw from supporting someone whose actions and behaviours are now inconsistent with one's values can feel like a radical boycott.
One of the drugs Billy had been on was phenobarbital – and weaning him off that was like watching someone withdraw from heroin.
To withdraw from supporting someone whose actions and behaviors are now inconsistent with one's values can feel like a radical boycott.
I support someone when I believe in someone, and then I withdraw my support when I believe that someone is going in the wrong direction.
