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- noun Plural form of
climbdown .
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Examples
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The right of his party and the rightwing media are already growing impatient with him over climbdowns on policy, particularly the watering-down of reforms of the NHS under pressure from the Liberal Democrats.
The Age of Strife: pay packets and pensions divide coalition Britain 2011
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The right of his party and the rightwing media are already growing impatient with him over climbdowns on policy, particularly the watering-down of reforms of the NHS under pressure from the Liberal Democrats.
The Age of Strife: pay packets and pensions divide coalition Britain 2011
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Ian Traynor, the Guardian's Europe Editor, has written about the French climbdowns.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel dominate EU in an uneasy alliance 2011
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Why spend two years arguing against free care for the elderly and the suspension of compulsory ID cards and then announce the climbdowns as if they were triumphs?
Why now, Gordon? 2009
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Why spend two years arguing against free care for the elderly and the suspension of compulsory ID cards and then announce the climbdowns as if they were triumphs?
Why now, Gordon? 2009
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Stephane Dion may be gone from a leadership role, but his legacy of hysterical threats followed by ignoble climbdowns lives on, affecting our perception of his successor.
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The concessions mark the latest in a string of climbdowns by the chancellor, who has been forced to rewrite large sections of his budget and prebudget report, including proposals on income tax, capital-gains tax and fuel duty.
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And as far as Jamil Hussein incident, I suggest you look at the original story and the subsequent climbdowns by the AP before saying that the effort was ineffective.
About that "scalping"... and other blogospheric collective activities. Ann Althouse 2007
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Just look at Nokia, which for a generation dominated the mobile phone business and whose flight into the arms of Microsoft marked one of the most humiliating climbdowns in corporate history.
The Guardian World News John Naughton 2011
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So now we have two climbdowns in a row: one over employing gays and atheists, and - if Harman's disavowal of Alli's amendment is taken seriously - the other over homosexual
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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