| The England players called off their strike last night, but a statement of angry intensity should halt talk of a climbdown. |
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| However, this should not be regarded as a climbdown on the manager's part so much as a strategic withdrawal. |
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| The discovery of files by North Yorkshire Police has led to the embarrassing climbdown. |
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| The Government has signalled a partial climbdown on the Gambling Bill by restricting the number of supercasinos in the first phase. |
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| The move signals a major climbdown by the Government on its much-vaunted plans to appoint elected mayors through the referendum process. |
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| More backward employers have gone into a paroxysm of rage over the government's climbdown on pensions. |
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| A conservative election candidate who was deselected after a row over vote-rigging has been reinstated after a climbdown by party chiefs. |
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| I guess the climbdown was because a TPO would have netted them almost as much adverse national publicity as the Windermere 10 mph speed limit. |
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| Last night the council was forced into an embarrassing climbdown after it admitted it had mistakenly told people there would be no charge. |
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| With the council's big Conservative majority, such a climbdown looks unlikely. |
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| After comprehensively rubbishing the claim, the climbdown was then all the more humiliating. |
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| This was an appalling climbdown which exposed the inept manner with which the implementation has been undertaken. |
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| But union sources believe that GE will face a humiliating climbdown at the Ayrshire plant. |
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| The radical proposal looks too much like a climbdown for the government to take seriously. |
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| Mani was again to the fore last week, meeting officials at the Zimbabwean embassy in London to help bring about the climbdown over the withdrawal of media accreditation. |
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| Now red-faced Department officials have been forced into a climbdown. |
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| But if it was a concession, it never amounted to a climbdown. |
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| The humiliating climbdown left the Lib Dem leader with nothing to show from two years in cahoots with the Tories as his plans for an elected Upper House crumbled to dust. |
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