But as her hand touched the doorknob she stopped herself and sat back down on her bed.
This was intended to force it back down on to the sea floor.
Congress leaders appeared last week to be unwilling to back down on the plan, one of the government's biggest economic reforms.
Ryan has also been cast as a strong opponent to President Obama, not afraid to back down on key policy issues.
After an outcry, the president revoked much of the 22 November decree, but he refused to back down on the draft constitution.
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But I will not back down on the basic principle that, if Americans can't find affordable coverage, we will provide you with a choice.
Poland has been trying softly-softly tactics on Katyn, hoping that it would make it easier for Russia to back down on issues such as opening the files.
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The home secretary, Theresa May, has been forced by her cabinet colleagues to back down on her plans to break up the Serious Fraud Office, according to sources.
If the mullahs watch the U.S. back down on confronting its missile threat, who could blame them for assuming it will also back down over its nuclear aspirations?
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She opened the coat, got back down on her knees, and with one hand yanked the skirt of the coat up behind her, folded over on itself, so that it was out of the way.
Ever since a monumental battle in the 1930s, in which Roosevelt's New Dealers forced the Supreme Court to back down on the issue, Congress has used an expansive reading of the commerce clause to legislate in a vast range of new areas.
With foreign central banks owning half the supply of Treasuries and the Fed buying 70% of new issuance, President Obama and his allies in Congress have felt no financing pressure to back down on spending, just as Bernanke has been able to justify his existence by the strong bond market.
English teams might not be allowed to play because the BCCI is refusing to back down on its ruling that no counties who have fielded players who played in the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League (ICL) - a rival to the International Cricket Council (ICC)-sanctioned Indian Premier League (IPL) - will be allowed to compete in the Champions League.
The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.
Despite five hurricanes, and I'll go back right down on the beach and, good Lord willing, we'll get out for the next one, too.
And they said that they organized this--they capitalized on the fact that the authorities have held back from cracking down on public demonstrations recently in the run-up to next week's presidential elections.
Burberry fought back, cracking down on knock-offs while moving the brand even more upscale.
Reframe or capture missed photo opportunities on the way back down, then retrace your route on the metro, heading back south to San Antonio station, where you will switch to the east-west Line B.
JPMorgan said in a research report that they expect the government to maintain property tightening measures for the rest of the year to prevent house prices from bouncing back and clamp down on speculative demand in the housing market.
With all that we're challenged with right now--the recession, the wars--in a weird way I think it has made people come back down and focus on what's most important in life: the families they come from and the family they're building.
Federer was on the brink, but he twice came back from two sets down on the way to winning in Paris last year and, when he broke Soderling to lead 2-0 in the fourth, the chants of "Roger, Roger" that rang around the stadium suggested the home fans were expecting another comeback.
Heymans had been horribly exposed at full-back as Argentina rained high kicks down on him in the first night disaster in Paris, but he was back on the wing on Sunday and grabbed the first try after seven minutes.
And although Mr Obama fumbled his initial foray into Arab-Israeli peacemaking he picked a fight with Israel on settlements and then seemed to back down he started working on this conflict earlier in his term than some presidents, and appears intent on persevering.
Like he did on all of his makes, Stauskas came back down the court with a smile on his face, sharing the moment with the Wolverines fans who made the trip to North Texas.
Then in 1977 the BLM noticed some of the horses had distinctive traits, including stripes down the back and on the legs and black-lined hooked ears.
It is possible that some private equity managers are dragging their feet a bit, holding back on writing down illiquid holdings with the hope that markets will rebound in the home stretch of the year.
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Its slow coast down was largely on the back of explicit policy aimed at pushing down the average hours worked by full time employees.
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