Sentences with phrase «backpedaled out»

The Winklevoss twins are being sued by an investor who alleges the two backpedaled out of a marijuana delivery start - up deal worth nearly $ 500,000, the New York Post reports.

For one, these errors are hard to backpedal out of — and worse, they can cost thousands of dollars.

Nintendo Switch is going to be a big success and GAF's collective inability to swallow crow as they try to backpedal out of previous statements is going to be glorious.

Not exact matches

Pushing out our renewal delays the new requirements as long as possible and allows us to keep a plan we like, while giving us a chance to see if the government backpedals.

Interesting backpedal, especially when yesterday you said «When I toss out the Stephen Hawking M theory stuff as support you eat it up because it is just a theory without evidence.»

The out - of - position goalkeeper backpedalled in an attempt to stop the whipped effort, but could only carry it over the line.

Because the experts suggest something then 6 mos later they are backpedaling or they find out it was not a good idea to begin with.

When Bush said out and out about waging «Crusade» on (Mainstream Muslim / Sunni) «terrorists» in his 2001's statement, did he ever backpedal, apologize or say that this was a «slip of tongue»?

Though Spain backpedaled on severe cuts after panel makers balked, companies like Energias de Portugal Renovables are pulling out because of profit worries and, in August, BP shelved plans for the world's largest solar panel plant in Spain.

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out against the House legislation, which she believes backpedals on efforts to improve child nutrition and health.

As I've pointed out previously, USFWS has been back and forth on this for some time now, acting (when it suits their purposes) as if they do have a policy regarding free - roaming cats, and then backpedaling when they're called on the carpet.

It would not be the first time a loyalty program rolled out customer unfriendly changes and then backpedaled to make it better.

For every unique idea the game presents, it almost immediately backpedals into a generic, played - out conceit.

This caused Microsoft to backpedal, albeit in a vague, nondescript sort of way that suggests they are either changing their plans or pummelling their PR department into figuring out how to spin the move as being a good one for consumers.

W hen I pointed this out to him he backpedalled and tried to weasel out of it.

Then the witnesses will start backpedalling and adding qualifications as soon as the jurors start asking them questions (there is no attorney present to object, though the witness can take a time out to consult counsel outside the hearing of the jurors); there will be 18 - 24 of them: independent businessmen, committed church - goers, accountants, etc — the federal grand jury that I sat on had a member of the technical staff of an international pharmaceutical corporation.

is one of Willis» attempts to backpedal after a number of observers pointed out (like I have) that his original explanation of his «adjustments» to the ARGO data was indistinguishable from simple data fudging to arrive at a desired result.

Emotions can run high and there have been many cases where a CEO has walked out of a meeting uttering «I give up» or «I am done» and then sought to backpedal to avoid triggering a resignation.