resile

Example Sentences

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"She does not resile from anything she said then. This email was sent in the context of advice the Duchess was given to try to assuage Epstein and his threats."

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"It was our duty to stabilise the economy and to fill in that £22bn black hole. I'm not going to resile from that."

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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has said welfare changes are "never easy and rarely popular, perhaps especially for Labour governments" but that she would not "resile" from difficult decisions.

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"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.

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But he added he did not "resile from my strongly held views" on the conflict.

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