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How to use back-pedal in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word back-pedal? Here are some examples.

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Due to these protests, the government was forced to back-pedal, creating enormous pressure as the time limit for fulfilling EU conditions nears.
I want us all to understand that several more thousand jobs are at stake if we back-pedal on this report which we are being called to vote upon.
The goal changed the face of the game as the hosts finally began to look like the Unibond title challengers they are and make City back-pedal.
Georgia introduced assignee liability, only to back-pedal after the state's subprime market started to seize up.
The former Aberdeen striker drilled in a 45-yard shot which forced the Frenchman to furiously back-pedal and tip the ball over the bar.
Sigurdsson almost scored with a 35-yard volley that Foster had to back-pedal to push wide.
It seems to me there's been an unforeseen outcome and they're trying to back-pedal.
It was a long ball over the top and I was trying to back-pedal but I read it wrong and suddenly he was in to score.
It seems that the broadcasting company for its own reasons chose to back-pedal on this issue, given the article that ran the same day the documentary was aired.
Will we back-pedal from our standpoint after the recommendations are approved, Nisar wondered.
Meanwhile, Pitt is again trying to back-pedal over the widely-criticised comments he made to Parade last week.
The minister's refusal to back-pedal on his smoking ban earlier this year raised the hackles of publicans nationwide who claimed it damaged their business enormously.
As those in front saw what he was waving in his right hand, they tried to back-pedal, but their escape was blocked by other nosy people coming up behind them.
Other equipment includes a sport seat, plus both a back-pedal brake and a handbrake which ensure optimal deceleration.
Yeltsin subsequently became first an enthusiastic advocate of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and then one of Gorbachev's harshest critics as the last Soviet president started to back-pedal on reform.
Villa made a spirited effort to hit back, with Jordan Graham's cross forcing 'keeper Ben Amos to back-pedal before tipping over.
Almost immediately, Mr Lee's party began to back-pedal.
Taken aback by the public outcry, Mr Abbas was forced to back-pedal.
However, I am also just as convinced that we in the European Union should not make the same mistake and back-pedal on the common agricultural policy.
People suggest during the negotiation process, so in ten years time or so, possibly, for we will of course have made so much progress that we will be unable to back-pedal, even if Turkey does not meet the conditions.
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Several times, when I wanted to slow up, I began to back-pedal, forgetting that I wasn't on my bicycle.
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