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
But he added he did not "resile from my strongly held views" on the conflict.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 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 Foreign Office usage, however, resile means to appear elastic without actually budging from one's original position.
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 James Buchanan
There is no resiling from his admiration for George Bush, who is lauded as a man of "genuine integrity" and "a true idealist".
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010
One purpose of resiling is to wait for one's antagonist to commit a blunder that weakens him, or a provocation that provides the Resiler with a casus belli.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some might call it "dithering," others "muddling through," but the Foreign Office likes to call it "resiling."
From Time Magazine Archive
