(1) Retrace one's course
(1) Nothing would be nicer than to hear a filmmaker backtrack and recall how studio tinkering hampered his vision, or how test audience ambivalence mutated his masterwork.
(2) I stepped through the door - only to backtrack when what he said finally computed.
(3) He's already been forced to backtrack on the assertion that he made that three Republican lawyers supported the pardon.
(4) To backtrack a little, the case is a complex one
(5) When we graduate from high school most of us don't know where we are going to end up-we make U-turns, take forward steps, backtrack , travel and reinvent ourselves several times along the way.
(6) That is a really major backtrack on the Act, and it flies in the face of the many submissions we received from workers and unions, supporting the intentions of the holidays legislation.
(7) Every effort must be made to force the government to backtrack on the cuts which will result in an estimated 58 million being saved by reductions in rent allowance and welfare payments, he said.
(8) The unions have had to backtrack on their demands
(9) The unions have had to backtrack on their demands
(10) I wonder if Labour will backtrack on its tax policy and increase the brackets for income tax thresholds after learning of this poll - when your own base support is demanding change then you know you are in trouble.
(11) Imagine not being permitted to backtrack on an inadvertent slip.
(12) Aberdeen council was recently forced to backtrack on its single status plans after council workers threatened industrial action.
(13) Because there were no other lynx tracks in the area, I was able to backtrack the lynx to the site where the deer was first attacked.
(14) A district council has been forced to backtrack on its proposed council tax rise after being warned that it risked being capped.
(15) Unfortunately though, their first major agreement virtually formalized a procedure for allowing members to backtrack on their trade liberalization commitments.
(16) He was able to backtrack the buck to a ridge nearby
(17) The actual point of this post is to backtrack on something I've brought up in conversation many times to annoy my conservative friends.
(18) Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
(19) Let's backtrack a little bit because people will wonder why we didn't address this.
(20) Even the government, with its tonal backtrack on race-based policies, has acknowledged that.
(21) Let me backtrack a bit because you made reference to it twice.
(22) Even he is not willing to fully backtrack on that.
(23) Unlike corporate networks, which can limit access, and can backtrack users, we have to continuously monitor for attacks and, more importantly, successful intrusions.
(24) I just don't know if I should veer off this path for a while, maybe backtrack a bit and see if I can't find out what I've forgotten to do.
(25) Based on their observations, Henry and his colleagues were able to backtrack the Abell 754 collision to its two constituent galaxy clusters, with one smaller than the other.
(26) I backtrack the deer, because I want to observe its pattern of natural movement.
(27) I backtrack a couple dozen feet on the street until I'm standing next to a lady who's trying to dig her car out of a snowbank, and we're both eyeing this thing warily as it continues to clatter and belch fire and smoke.
(28) The Government cannot use the economic downturn as an excuse to backtrack on assistance promised to the disabled in next month's budget, a lobby group declared yesterday.
(29) The election manifesto of her Christian Democratic Union party, due next week, is expected to backtrack on promises to slash state handouts and modernise the country.
(30) They'd been able to backtrack the entire affair, all the way back to a really good picture of Kayla swiping the vials of aphrodisiac.
backpedal
change one's mind
back down
reverse course
about-face
climb down