Similar words: climb down, climbdown, climb, climb on, climb up, climber, climbing, rock climbing. Meaning: n. a retraction of a previously held position climb down. v. come down.
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1. The Chancellor was forced into a humiliating climbdown on his economic policies.
2. Saying she was wrong was a difficult climbdown for Sarah.
3. In an embarrassing climb-down(http://sentencedict.com), the Home Secretary lifted the deportation threat.
4. He is a master of the climb-down, presented defiantly as a statesmanlike change of opinion.
5. Far from being overjoyed at the apparent climbdown protesters believe it's a plot to throw them off their guard.
6. Better an early climb-down in some sheltered private meeting, he argued, than a humiliation on the floor of the House.
7. His speech at the opening ceremony would have been the ideal opportunity for a graceful climbdown.
8. Either the Government performs a climbdown of epic humiliation scale or it publishes and risks being damned in the division lobbies.
9. In what correspondents describe as a rare climb-down, manufacturers will no longer be obliged to equip every computer sold in China with the controversial technology known as Green Dam.
10. Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, smarting from criticism for the climb-down, demanded that China pay for the repair of the damaged boats.
11. Yet rarely have protests been so bold, or appeared to prompt an official climb-down so quickly, as they did in Dalian.
12. Now comes a demonstration in the north-eastern city of Dalian that has prompted a remarkable climb-down by the authorities.
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