I never backed down from a fight in my life.
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In the aftermath, both sides backed down from intensifying the conflict.
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He backed down from demanding that all American diplomats leave the country.
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He's never backed down from a fight, always standing firm & with resolve.
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Apple later backed down from these changes, but the timing didn't look great.
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"I have never backed down from a fight," Ms. Gillibrand said on Sunday.
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The White House, so far, has not backed down from support of Kavanaugh.
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That's partly because Trump has already backed down from a slew of promises.
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To this day, Cooper fondly recalls how he never backed down from the Pistons.
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Trump later backed down from that threat after striking a trade deal with Mexico.
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Today, it appears the Oculus has backed down from its attempts to block Revive.
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I never backed down from a fight in my life … Such an edgy broadcaster.
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FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggested that some executives have backed down from their commitments.
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President Trump backed down from a threat to veto a $1.3 trillion spending bill.
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President Donald Trump ultimately backed down from the effort after the Supreme Court's ruling.
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She's never backed down from any challenge, and handles them with grace and confidence.
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Mr Bullock derided their "wish-list economics", but neither backed down from their ambitious plans.
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He later backed down from the threat after signing a trade deal with the country.
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And Trump, who hasn't backed down from his claim, continued his attacks on his predecessor.
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Trump hasn't refrained from tweeting since, nor has he backed down from his tough rhetoric.
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The Trump administration, however, has not backed down from its tough talk against North Korea.
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Despite the outpouring of contrary evidence, Trump hasn't backed down from his claims against Amazon.
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The mayor in question backed down from the idea when he was offered police protection.
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On Saturday, Mr. Maduro backed down from demanding that American diplomats leave the country this weekend.
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The American people's opposition to extreme reform ensured that congressional Democrats backed down from anything extreme.
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Berkshire-backed Kraft Heinz backed down from a $143 billion offer for Unilever earlier this year.
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Neither Leandra English nor Mick Mulvaney have backed down from their claims to the acting director role.
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Although the plan died in Congress, the court also backed down from its confrontation with the president.
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Trump reportedly backed down from his demands when McGahn threatened to resign instead of carry out the order.
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The one murder she committed was a compassionate one, and she backed down from two obvious assassination situations.
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It's the second time this year that Trump has apparently backed down from his demands for wall money.
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Some police departments, however, have backed down from their support of 2873(g) in the face of political pressure.
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Earlier on Friday, a Taiwanese hacker backed down from plans to livestream a hack of Zuckerberg's account on Sunday.
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YouTube adjusted its policy to demonetize videos related to coronavirus, but the company quickly backed down from the move.
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Last week Trump backed down from his controversial threat to cut billions of dollars in unused foreign aid funding.
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But liberals never backed down from the radical healthcare dreams that were dashed by the American people in 2010.
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While the government backed down from that legislation, other measures followed, and the protests have continued off and on.
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"Ed has never backed down from fights that define our times," it added, before asking for a $27 donation.
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Despite the potential harm they could have on her campaign, Roby hasn't backed down from her 2016 comments about Trump.
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He hasn't backed down from his controversial position — even as big GOP donors like the DeVos family pulled their support.
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The White House has also reportedly backed down from demanding money for Trump's promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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He backed down from his administration's policy, which for days the White House insisted could only end through congressional action.
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Last June, Mr. Trump backed down from his demand that Mr. Mueller be fired after Mr. McGahn threatened to quit.
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Puigdemont backed down from an outright declaration of independence during a highly anticipated speech to the Catalan parliament Tuesday night.
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But Mexican officials have backed down from many of those initial restrictions, including its refusal to accept women with children.
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Hardline conservatives have backed down from a threat to imminently force a House vote on impeaching Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Once again, Trump backed down from the policy in the face of near-universal condemnation, including from Republican allies in Congress.
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"Illegal immigrants should not have access to driver's licenses," she said in a statement when Spitzer backed down from the plan.
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Ecuador's government, and others supportive of breast-feeding, backed down from proposing the resolution — which then passed after Russia introduced it.
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Facebook hasn't backed down from its fact-checking exemption; YouTube is still a leading platform for conspiracy theorists and climate denial.
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The win for farmers, in other words, is real enough, but the win is simply that Trump backed down from his threats.
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"Thankfully, President Trump appears to have backed down from his position for billions in direct appropriations for a border wall," Schumer said.
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"He knew, he said, "because you're a competitor, you've never backed down from a challenge before, and I'm very proud of you.
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The prime minister backed down from his threat to resign, and Mr Zeman at first declined his request to fire Mr Babis.
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Success didn't come easy for Harrison Tang, the CEO and co-founder of Spokeo — but he never backed down from a challenge.
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Still, the United States has not backed down from hiking tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25% on Friday.
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Flake, a strong critic of Trump, has not backed down from the President in the wake of Trump's public attacks against him.
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President Trump has apparently backed down from his plan to urge states to raise the age to purchase assault weapons to 21.
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Mr. Trump backed down from that position in a phone call with Mr. Xi on Thursday night, handing China a diplomatic victory.
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Rick Scott, but the Florida Democrat hasn't backed down from it, and he has pointed to his July letter sent with Rubio.
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Though Minaj has spoken out publicly about the fight, saying the ordeal was "humiliating", the rapper hasn't entirely backed down from the drama.
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New Delhi (CNN Business)PepsiCo has backed down from a controversial fight with Indian farmers it accused of illegally growing its registered potatoes.
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In September it backed down from raising interest rates, citing concern over Chinese growth and financial market volatility, before finally acting last month.
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He later backed down from that threat, giving Mexico a year to meet his demands or face car tariffs or a border closure.
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On the advice of his aides, Mr. Duterte had previously backed down from his arrest order, saying he would let the courts decide.
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In the aftermath, both sides backed down from intensifying the conflict, the latest stage of a protracted shadow war between the two foes.
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He and his allies, including Mr. Mueller, eventually backed down from their threats to resign in protest after the White House made modest adjustments.
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But he added that he had backed down from that position and authorized federal health officials to decide the matter as they saw fit.
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Hal Moskowitz, who worked with Mr. Hansell at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, said his former colleague had never backed down from a challenge.
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Google agreed to lower power levels than what it had first proposed, and in exchange, Facebook backed down from opposing the waiver, according to Reuters.
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Clinton, turned from the lectern to face the presumptive Democratic nominee, declaring that she "has never backed down" from fighting for the middle class, Mrs.
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But the New York Times and other outlets report Trump backed down from that plan after facing pushback from vapers, conservative groups and the industry.
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The president backed down from his administration's policy of splitting migrant families, which for days the White House insisted could only end through congressional action.
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He's seemed to have backed down from his harsher positions -- STEPHEN SCHWARZMAN: I think the issue with DACA right now is really a legal issue.
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Mr. Trump has since backed down from his threat to impose tariffs on Brazil and has yet to follow through with new tariffs on Argentina.
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Then-House Speaker John Boehner backed down from the GOP budget fight with President Obama after shutting down the government for 16 days in 2013.
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Pompeo sought to dispel suggestions that the Trump administration has backed down from demanding the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of the North&aposs nuclear weapons.
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Civil society remains strong, and the government responds to public pressure: last year it backed down from a strict abortion law when faced with massive protests.
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After President Trump's endorsement of Roy Moore, several prominent Republicans, including Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, backed down from their calls for Moore to step down.
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He's talking about Obama's "red line," the president's threat to attack Syrian forces if they used chemical weapons (a threat he backed down from in 2013).
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Last year Mr. Macron's predecessor, President François Hollande, backed down from an assault on the code when the unions filled the streets in protest for weeks.
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McGahn threatened to resign rather than carry out the order, the Times said, and Trump backed down from his attempt to remove Mueller from the investigation.
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In Brownsville, he said, one never backed down from a fight, because the consequences of backing down were more frightening than those of a mere beating.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio has criticized Uber's rapid expansion for exacerbating traffic, but his administration backed down from a proposed cap on Uber cars in 225.
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For one thing, Mr. Trump backed down from his demand that money be included for the wall he wants to build along the border with Mexico.
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Though President Emmanuel Macron has backed down from a proposed gas tax increase, the policy that set off the furor, streets across France remain full of demonstrators.
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And while Ms. Abrams has not backed down from the position, she has been speaking more lately about her desire to find common ground on the issue.
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In his speech, he said, while presidents had backed down from moving the embassy, "this president delivered, because when President Trump makes a promise, he keeps it."
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Congress backed down from its threat to reimpose a ban on ZTE, a Chinese maker of telecoms equipment, acquiring American semiconductors and other components crucial to its business.
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Driving the news: Earlier today, the city's head of police backed down from an earlier attempt to characterize protesters as rioters, according to the South China Morning Post.
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Then on Thursday morning, the administration backed down from it push to eliminate prescription drug rebates after concerns grew that killing the rebates would adversely affect senior citizens.
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Trump backed down from two of his demands this week — money for a border wall and withholding subsidies to help lower-income people — to avert a government shutdown.
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It's not clear why, but it's likely that the government chose to follow the lead of countries such as the US, which had backed down from similar schemes.
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Argentine President Mauricio Macri backed down from a proposed 10 percent tax on wine and increased tax on champagne following a private meeting with Mendoza Governor Alfredo Cornejo.
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President Trump agreed to open the government for three weeks amid continuing border-wall negotiations, but he insisted that he hadn't backed down from any of his demands.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's parliament on Monday backed down from its demand for former president Robert Mugabe to answer questions related to diamond mining operations during his time in office.
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The Department of Justice backed down from its demand that the web-hosting service DreamHost turn over information on 1.3 million visitors to an anti-Trump website, disruptj20.org.
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The New York Times cited four sources, stating that the president backed down from his attempts to remove Mueller last June after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign.
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The 234-year on Tuesday later backed down from its highs, but it has now punctured 2825 percent, a key level a number of strategists had targeted for year-end.
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I've never backed down from anything I've written before now, but maybe progressing in my beliefs and doing better next time is what being a fixer upper is all about.
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He backed down from his threats after Syria agreed to a Russian-brokered effort to eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile — an agreement whose implementation has clearly been less than complete.
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Both Emirates and Etihad had shown interest in buying PIA before the government backed down from privatization in 2016, the English-language Express Tribune newspaper reported, citing an unnamed official.
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"Ultimately, the defendant backed down from his insistence on personally carrying out the cross-examination of his victims and allowed his advisory attorney to question the victims," Mr. Montgomery said.
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Turkey has not backed down from its purchase and said it should not trigger sanctions as Ankara is not an adversary of Washington and remains committed to the NATO alliance.
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President Nicolás Maduro backed down from demanding that all American diplomats leave the country this past weekend, even as the U.S. and other countries continued to press for new elections.
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But in 2015, his administration backed down from a fight with Uber by abruptly dropping a plan for a cap on the number of Uber vehicles operating within the city.
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Arpaio has touted "birtherism" in the past, even launching a five-year long investigation into Obama's birth certificate he concluded in 2016 even after Trump backed down from the claim.
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Trump had indicated that he did not want to engage in a new Middle East war and even backed down from carrying out a strike on Iran earlier this year.
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Lastly, despite persistent Iranian grumbling about a perceived lack of American compliance with the JCPOA, Iranian officials have apparently backed down from using the "dispute resolution mechanism" in the accord.
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Twitter withdrew its lawsuit against the U.S. government Friday, only a day after filing, after the government backed down from its request for information regarding an immigration-focused, anti-Trump account.
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Collins said on Twitter that investigations into Cambridge Analytica should be undertaken by "proper authorities" such as the ICO after it was revealed that Facebook had backed down from its audit.
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Documents obtained from the FTC under federal open-records laws reflect that the agency considered, then backed down from putting Zuckerberg directly under order during its last settlement with Facebook in 2011.
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"I've never backed down from anything I've written before now, but maybe progressing in my beliefs and doing better next time is what being a fixer upper is all about," Austin said.
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He then unilaterally backed down from these threats (a better idea than following through on them) and then started to portray his own decision to back down as a major diplomatic triumph.
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Aside from being outspoken, unapologetic citizen politicians who have never backed down from a position -- no matter how appalling or inaccurate -- you sense they share a delight in offending the politically correct.
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A staunch denier of climate change, he hasn't backed down from the views he expressed in an oft-quoted 2012 tweet suggesting that global warming is a hoax invented by the Chinese.
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The main public sector union has backed down from plans for a national strike, citing a volatile security situation, but four more teachers' unions said they will join next week's planned stoppage.
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Papadopoulos's wife, Simona Mangiante, had signaled in recent weeks that her husband was mulling walking away from the plea deal with Mueller, though she backed down from those suggestions late last week.
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Trump previously threatened a government shutdown if a spending bill did not include $5 billion to pay for the border wall, but the White House backed down from those demands on Tuesday.
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Democrats backed down from their threats to block the bill after failing to guarantee health benefits for some 21625,2900 miners on the verge of losing them at the end of the year.
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The White House has backed down from the president's insistence that a new deal to fund the government and avoid a shutdown has to hinge on $5 billion dedicated to wall funding.
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The GOP leader backed down from an aggressive timetable and new restrictions on evidence in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, changing course after protests from senators like Republican Susan Collins of Maine.
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"I'm a fighting man through and through and I've never backed down from anyone in my life and I was certainly not going to back down from fighting this dispute," he said.
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Pramila Jayapal, a freshman Democrat from Washington, has heard all three of these condescending remarks from male GOP colleagues since arriving in Congress — but she hasn't backed down from any of them.
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Though Trump reportedly backed down from his more extreme ideas, his frustration resulted in a purge of immigration officials at DHS, beginning with Nielsen at the top and working its way down.
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" Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said during a speech on the Senate floor, "Thankfully, President Trump appears to have backed down from his position for billions in direct appropriations for a border wall.
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The president hasn't backed down from his tariffs plan, but he raised the prospect that some nations could be spared (by way of pressuring Canada and Mexico on a new Nafta trade treaty).
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While Mr. Navarro backed down from his attack, Mr. Trump did not, continuing on Tuesday to accuse Mr. Trudeau of acting in bad faith and trying to take advantage of the United States.
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But Sanders has not backed down from the attack line, and his campaign has pointed to "lobbyists and bundlers for the industry" who have donated to Clinton and donations to super PACs supporting Clinton.
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President Trump backed down from his earlier suggestion that the U.S. could go back to work by April 210, saying on Sunday that social-distancing guidelines would now remain in place until April 2000.
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Ken Jennings shot ahead early in the match with a Daily Double asking him to name the 93-33 crisis that ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law.
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The threat of a shutdown eased somewhat when President Trump backed down from demanding that border wall funding be included in the spending bill that Congress must pass by Friday to keep the government running.
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Some see him as a traitor who "crumbled under pressure", after he backed down from contested parts of Indiana's RFRA, a bill which was pilloried by activists, media pundits and Democratic politicians as anti-LGBT.
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Former First Lady Laura Bush compared it to Japanese-American internment during World War II. So intense was the criticism that Trump backed down from the policy and signed an executive order to curb separations.
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Trump's tweet came after days of reports that the White House had backed down from plans for the president to visit the U.K. amid threats of heavy protest from British citizens critical of his policies.
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In setting the hearing, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, backed down from a committee vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination, planned for this Thursday, and pushed a confirmation once seen as inevitable into limbo.
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Flake has not backed down from his criticism of Trump, slamming the president this week for blaming "both sides" for the violence after white supremacist groups clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday that President Trump has not backed down from his claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, despite several members of Congressional intelligence committees saying there is no evidence.
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And while Republicans eventually backed down from their plan after being confronted by overwhelming outrage from their constituents, the American people still got a glimpse into the dysfunction and partisanship that could be headed our way.
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On Friday Trump backed down from imposing the tariff, saying Mexico had agreed to help stem the illegal border traffic, but made clear he will go back to the plan if Mexico does not fully cooperate.
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President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, elected last year, has backed down from his country's insistence that China abandon the shoals at the heart of the tribunal's decision, preferring instead to accept significant Chinese economic assistance.
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That would allow Mr. Trump to say he had never backed down from his fight with congressional Democrats or abandoned his pledge to build the wall even if the construction became tied up in legal challenges.
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Austria has backed down from deploying troops and armored vehicles to patrol its border with Italy, a day after threatening to do so amid growing tensions in Europe over a surge of migrants arriving across the Mediterranean.
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Now that the Federal Reserve has backed down from its initially hawkish plans for hiking short-term interest rates, it has effectively paved the way for stocks to head higher, giving investors a "green light," Cramer said.
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The chairman of the House intelligence committee has backed down from his dramatic assertion that Donald Trump and his aides were "monitored," by U.S. spies — a claim the Republicans have cited this week in fundraising emails. Rep.
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Mr. Trump backed down from his earlier pledge to close a loophole that permits private equity managers to pay taxes on the bulk of their income at rates that are roughly half of ordinary income tax rates.
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Another example is when Apple built screentime controls into iOS, which was around the same time that it started cracking down on third-party apps that offered similar functionality (although Apple later backed down from these changes).
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Although the Department of Justice backed down from its original order for Microsoft to split into two companies after Microsoft appealed its case and the Bush administration reshuffled the agency, Lynn says the case did have an impact.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main public sector union has backed down from plans for a national strike, citing the volatile situation after security forces cracked down on protesters this month, but teachers will go ahead with a work stoppage.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan backed down from a threat to paralyze the capital on Wednesday, a move likely to ease tension that has spilled over into violence in the run-up to the planned protests.
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Moscow — An annual ceremony to commemorate victims of repression under Stalin proceeded Monday after Moscow city officials backed down from a decision to bar it from its traditional site, a memorial near the headquarters of the former KGB.
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According to the Washington Post, Pompeo has long insisted that Trump's well-understood desire to pull out of the Middle East has emboldened Iran — and that this was exacerbated when Trump backed down from the planned June strike.
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Despite the EU warnings and market turmoil that increased Rome's debt servicing costs, Italy's eurosceptic government has not backed down from its plan to increase its budget deficit to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) next year.
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It was last month that the FBI backed down from its legal battle with Apple over whether the company should write software to let investigators access encrypted data on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.
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In remarks to reporters, Shulkin backed down from an earlier defense against the OIG report, which found his chief of staff Vivieca Wright Simpson had doctored an email to allow Shulkin's wife to accompany him on the European trip.
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After years of pushing for a ban on the international trade of polar bear parts—in China, a good quality pelt can still fetch up to $20,000—it recently emerged that the US has quietly backed down from its campaign.
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Sir Ranulph's passionate condemnation of the sport comes as the new Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom, whose brief bid for the premiership included support for lifting the fox hunting ban, apparently backed down from an expected announcement to pursue the repeal further.
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Until the FBI backed down from its battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it seemed the agency had chosen a near-perfect case on which to make its stand against encryption.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan backed down from his threat to shut down the capital on Wednesday, vowing instead to hold a celebratory rally about a Supreme Court decision to pursue a case linked to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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A big moment in these negotiations was when Trump backed down from two of his demands last week on money for a border wall and withholding subsidies to help lower-income people buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
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The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that Justice and state legislators reached a deal to provide a 5 percent pay raise for all teachers and state employees after Republicans in the state Senate backed down from their opposition to salary increases.
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JERUSALEM — The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel appeared to have averted collapse on Monday — at least for now — after a hawkish coalition partner backed down from a threat to defect, which probably would have forced early elections.
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The most recent example was when Mr. Trump backed down from a vow to close the border with Mexico, instead saying he would give one of the United States' most essential trading partners a year to deal with the migrant crisis.
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MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has backed down from his order to arrest a senator who is a leading critic of his war on drugs, his spokesman said Friday, just as the lawmaker was poised to be arrested in his Senate office.
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Since his election, he has backed down from contentious territorial disputes with Beijing — last week, he halted a construction project in the South China Sea that brought Chinese complaints — despite an international ruling early in his presidency that backed the Philippines.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Saturday backed down from demanding that all American diplomats leave the country this weekend, even as the United States and allied nations continued to press for regime change in the South American nation.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not backed down from the planned purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defense system that the United States has said would compromise the security of stealth F-35 fighter jets, which Turkey also plans to buy.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not backed down from the planned purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defence system that the United States has said would compromise the security of stealth F-35 fighter jets, which Turkey also plans to buy.
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HARARE, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's umbrella public sector union has backed down from plans for a national strike, an official said on Thursday, citing the volatile situation in the country after this month's violent protests were met by a brutal security crackdown.
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"On this anniversary of the greatest Witch Hunt in American history, I am asking you to renew your Sustaining Membership for the 2018 year to show the witch hunters that *NOT A SINGLE PATRIOT* backed down from our fight," the email reads.
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Trump has backed down from threats to collapse Affordable Care Act markets by withholding subsidies, to unilaterally withdraw from NAFTA, to respond to North Korean taunting by launching a nuclear first strike, and to void the global powers agreement governing Iran's nuclear program.
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He was raised in rural poverty — his father drove a motorcycle pedicab and his mother was a fish vendor — and made his way up the chain of command by earning a reputation as a soldier who never backed down from a fight.
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When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence struck a cease-fire with Turkey last month, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell backed down from his threat to introduce a resolution demanding Trump withdraw his invitation to Erdogan for a visit.
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In fact, Schiff has not backed down from his charge that the contacts between Trump's team and Russia did add up to collusion -- and it's a point that Schiff is likely to try to hammer home with the public during the second Mueller hearing.
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Other Republican leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have been less eager to endorse an accused predator, though McConnell has backed down from his stance that Moore would be investigated and potentially expelled from the Senate if he won the December 12 election.
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I will say this, though: While I'm glad Netflix financed "Roma," I'm also glad the company backed down from its initial, hard-line stance on theatrical releases — if only because I've seen "Roma" on the big screen, and that's how it deserves to be watched.
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The new executive order temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from six Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. shows that President Trump has backed down from key elements of the earlier version of his order, the attorney general who sued to block the first action said Monday.
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This is a man who has backed down from almost nothing in his time as the fearless leader of Infowars—from inspiring hate mail sent to Sandy Hook parents to calling the Quebec mosque massacre a false flag, Jones typically stands his ground—not this time, though.
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McConnell and his allies, meanwhile, haven't backed down from warning they will seek to influence GOP primaries in an effort to stop a repeat of 2010 and 2012, when some weak conservative candidates defeated rivals from the GOP establishment in party primaries only to lose general elections.
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In June alone, the US accused Iran of attacking ships in the Gulf of Oman (something Iran has denied); Iran shot down a US drone; and the US claimed it backed down from a planned military strike at the last minute, targeting Iranian computer systems instead.
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And Singleton never backed down from showing black American life in his subsequent work, from 1993's Poetic Justice (which starred Janet Jackson and Tupac), 1995's Higher Learning, and 1997's Rosewood to action films like 2000's Shaft and 2003's 2 Fast 2 Furious.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - The chaos that has swirled around the Virginia statehouse for more than a week showed no signs of waning on Tuesday, one day after a lawmaker backed down from his threat to seek the impeachment of one of three top-ranked Democrats engulfed in scandal.
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Yet he never backed down from his belief that the company was on a path towards minimizing the problem by adding more moderators and ultimately automating the process with AI algorithms that would catch objectionable content much more quickly than moderators, who generally view content when users flag it as inappropriate.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (Ky.), backed down from a showdown that could have forced a brief, hours-long partial closure of the federal government. Sen.
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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)On-demand electric scooter startup Bird has backed down from its legal threats against Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow for publishing a piece detailing how a $30 kit from China could be used to rewire the hoards of abandoned Bird scooters sitting around city impound lots, the BBC reported on Monday.
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It is deeply disturbing that unnamed federal law enforcement officials pointed to the nonviolent "resolution" of the 2014 Cliven Bundy stand-off — in which the feds backed down from seizing his cattle illegally grazing for more than a decade on national park and desert range lands — as a "success" and a model for handling the current situation in eastern Oregon.
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Trump, who for years now has blustered through ham-handed threats against Iran and then backed down from a direct confrontation, took the bait, blaming Tehran directly for the protests, congratulating himself for adding troops to the complex, and repelling the embassy demonstrators with tear gas—all while Iraq's most revered religious cleric bemoaned the nation's loss of its sovereignty to outside powers.
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Image 2 of 2 SEOUL, South Korea – The United States and its Asian allies are working to paper over any semblance of disagreement over President Donald Trump&aposs concession to Kim Jong Un that the U.S. would halt military exercises with South Korea, with Trump&aposs top diplomat insisting the president hadn&apost backed down from his firm line on North Korea&aposs nukes.
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From coast to coast, reporters broke big news this week: President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has backed down from his famous demand for a wall along the entire southern border!
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Whistleblower Edward Snowden is echoing Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE, after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE backed down from an offer to debate the Democratic presidential candidate.
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Morgan GriffithHoward (Morgan) Morgan GriffithThe 27 Republicans who voted with Democrats to block Trump from taking military action against Iran Overnight Energy: Senate Dems introduce Green New Deal alternative | Six Republicans named to House climate panel | Wheeler confirmed to lead EPA Six Republicans named to House climate panel MORE (R-Va.) said on "New Day" on Friday that Mexico will pay "part of the tab" for the wall, pushing back on the CNN anchor's insistence that Trump had backed down from his signature campaign promise for Mexico to foot the bill during private conversations with the Mexican president.
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Senators engaged in a furious fight over the rules as they started President TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 2628 of Senate impeachment trial MORE's impeachment trial on Tuesday, with Democrats earning a small victory when Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' Tensions between McConnell and Schumer run high as trial gains momentum No. 28503 GOP leader eyes Wednesday of next week for possible votes on witnesses MORE (R-Ky.) backed down from fast-tracking the proceeding.
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