Sentence examples for would have backed down from inspiring English sources

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Of course, in time, I would have backed down, but I had a firm sense of the rightness – the righteousness, even – of my position, and felt obscurely that I was also defending the judgment of my late friend Monteith.

More pertinently, neither Clinton nor the Republican contenders offer alternatives: not Jeb Bush's vaguely hawkish platitudes last week in a "major foreign policy speech" which could not escape the shadow of his brother's Iraq debacle; and certainly not Chris Christie's boast that if he'd been in the White House, Putin would have backed down over Ukraine.

He would have backed down and just gotten his wife to leave the store, or try to tell the security guard to have these boys stop picking on us, or something of that nature.

McConnell and his cabal would have backed down.

I am not sure the school would have backed down if not for the help of some of my heroes, including Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin and Neil Gaiman, who helped spread the word about the case.

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Would Hitler have backed down through talking alone?

"But I have a couple of dozen times had some contact me to tell me that they wish they wouldn't have backed down or waited, because now the person is dead".

"Giulio knew there were risks to what he was doing but I don't think he would ever have backed down from what he wanted to do.

Some bishops who would have their fingers more to the wind have backed down from these rather polemical positions".

In the battle between Bob and Boris the public would have backed Bob if Boris hadn't backed down.

Had the rain not come down I would have backed us to get the runs".

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