resile

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However, she added: "No responsible Labour government can resile from taking decisions because they are too difficult because that is not good enough for the people we came into politics to serve."

From BBC • May 21, 2025

"Though ministers need not resile from previously stated views when directly asked about them, they should exercise discretion and should not take part in the public debate," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

We've also seen him resile from some of the threats or claims he made during the campaign...

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2016

In the coming days, Eden will resile in several directions�with other diplomats in London, and probably in the debating halls of the U.N.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is thus a manifest tendency to resile from the old theory of Chance, and to take refuge in the new asylum of Law, Order, or Destiny.

From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James