Sentences with phrase «by backpedaling»

Still the actor defines him not by his doltishness, but by his delight in all things and by his backpedaling reflexes.

He and his longtime trainer, Al Braverman, sought to give the impression that he expected to win, hopefully by backpedaling through the early rounds and then coming on against a tired Foreman.

Not exact matches

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.

Even though the Trump administration is backpedalling the environment to 1928, Canadian workers are saving the world by biking to work.

Whenever the text turns apocalyptic, as it does this week, there would seem to be only two choices: either take it literally and join the lucrative doomsday machine of late - night, splendidly coifed Christian psychics, or begin your best apologetic backpedaling — cheered on by Bishop John Spong.

That means safeties have to rotate during the play, with the sweep - side safety dropping down and the other safety beginning with a backpedal to ensure he isn't beaten by play action.

But with the N.F.L. agreeing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit brought by about 5,000 former players who said the league hid from them the dangers of repeated hits to the head, a backpedaling league has corrected its lingo and hastily amended its methodology.

«People are showing a tremendous amount of weakness by just backpedaling because they feel like it's the politically sensible thing to do,» she added.

You like the idea of virtual schooling because of the way it allows students to move at their own pace so they don't suffer by being pushed forward before they are ready or by being backpedaled because they are ahead.

-- Counter-Strike: GO gamblers exposed as owning gambling website they promote — Microsoft backpedals on «play anywhere» initiative — Nintendo expected to sell 100 million Wii U consoles — The Pope is given a copy of Undertale by The Game Theorists — The new Iron Man and how Latinos are forgotten when it comes to diversity in comics

But by the end of the first paragraph the text backpedals a bit: «We hope to present some of the various tendencies in the tradition of abstract painting from where they may have begun to where they are going today.»

The price of Bitcoin has returned to growth following the backpedaling by the South Korean government on its previously reported plan to ban cryptocurrency trading, market data shows.