backing off

You cannot point the finger at any England player, but perhaps as a whole they were backing off and not wanting to give away a penalty.

Metro board chair and Supervisor Janice Hahn said that funding the Transit Connector would not endanger other South Bay projects, and that backing off could send a bad message to Washington down the line.

The FTC already has sued to block the merger, and it’s a fair supposition that under a President Harris the agency won’t be backing off.

We’re not backing off from diversity, equity and inclusion in our medical school curricula.

Earlier in the day, it seemed that Greene was backing off her ongoing threat to move to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La.