It also looks like another climb-down is on its way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second thoughts from the commission?] Reference

Nope, Gingrey was just forced into a humiliating climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Wrath of Rush] Reference

Was it the climb-down to the unions or the winter of discontent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Well, that just goes to show] Reference

Too much political capital has been expended in Europe to expect a climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Hedge-Fund Row Goes Global] Reference

Several warning letters to the Polish government have not brought a climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [A marathon trial of strength] Reference

Newspaper columnists slammed the move as a humiliating climb-down for Switzerland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libya Sends Swiss Jet Home, Without Detainees] Reference

“And for Henry, a similar small climb-down,” Francis said with rising excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

The previous item on his apparent climb-down at the debate is absolutely fascinating.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Antonio Diauza confesses that he is frustrated with the government's recent climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

As such, I'm honestly baffled by the notion that I need a climb-down, face saving or otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I'm voting for Obama in the Wisconsin primary.] Reference

A sorry climb-down after all that lovely America-bashing, to come begging the loan of their army.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Responsibility to Protect"] Reference

An early-morning meeting on Thursday by the tripartite alliance set the scene for a Cosatu climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The climb-down followed an urgent meeting between the provincial and national leaders of the student body.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And I think that people were also happy that Obama did a climb-down from his angry rhetoric against the banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover Your Assets] Reference

But this year, missteps sent his credibility plunging -- including the climb-down on greenhouse gas emissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is sworn in] Reference

The climb-down also followed an urgent meeting between the provincial and national leaders of the student body.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Yet what seems to be a comprehensive climb-down both in the courts and in Congress is far less than meets the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aziz Huq: Winning Back the Checks and Balances of American Government?] Reference

The climb-down follows last Friday's about-face by the NNP MECs in the provincial cabinet, who decided to back Morkel rather than.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"It could be seen as climb-down at this stage to have a government capital injection," says Simon Adamson, an analyst at CreditSights in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barclays's Dilemma: What to Sell] Reference

An Israeli official indicated his government would also discuss an exchange of prisoners and bodies from the recent fighting, another climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wider War] Reference

Ireland ' s call for help marks a climb-down for the country ' s government, which insisted as recently as last week that it didn ' t need money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ailing Ireland Accepts Bailout] Reference

Analysts said it was an embarrassing climb-down for Mr. Martin, who appeared before reporters to explain the delay in the commission's meeting today.    From Wordnik.com.  [FCC Stiff-Armed] Reference

He is doubtless concerned that direct talks would look too much like a climb-down - and would certainly be seen as such in the region if not the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gavin Scott: Through the Conference Hall and Out of Iraq] Reference

But for diehard red shirts, that would be a big climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

Conservatives used hockey to hide climate climb-down, Liberals charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Geithner's climb-down from the manipulator charge is about pragmatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome To Jim Sinclair's MineSet] Reference

"It is a humiliating climb-down forced on it by the European Commission.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

Mr Gibbs was then forced into an embarrassing climb-down, saying he had spoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

President Carter's escalation then climb-down resulted in the collapse of his presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westhawk] Reference

Michael Ignatieff has sworn off any election talk since his spectacular climb-down last fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

THE Capital's health leader Paul Edie is today facing calls to quit over the city council's care climb-down.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This is a major climb-down by the Rudd government, and also reflects the changing politics of climate change in Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

If he is smart, he will start talking about the striker's much "improved attitude" etc soon in preparation for a climb-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

DELHI, 17 JULY: Even as the BJP slammed the government inside and outside Parliament over New Delhi's "climb-down" vis-a-vis.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Arabs on guard against swine flu ahead of hajj] Reference

So the Russians take the free gift of Obama's climb-down on the missiles, thereby leaving the Czechs, Poles, and other brave E.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minority Report -] Reference