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

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