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

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

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

The strict dictionary definition of "resile" is "draw back, recoil . . . return to its original position as an elastic body."

From Time Magazine Archive

He was instructed that he must resign both, or neither; resigned both; fell out with the Consuls on details; and is now, as we are advised, seeking to resile from his resignations.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis