Which allows me to back pedal if you are upset, or push forward if you are less upset than I thought you would be.

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Georgia introduced assignee liability, only to back-pedal after the state's subprime market started to seize up.

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He also continued to back-pedal from his comments last Sunday about "legitimate rape", accepting that the views he expressed were "medically wrong".

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Taken aback by the public outcry, Mr Abbas was forced to back-pedal.

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No longer forcing the fight, Khan was beginning to back-pedal and briefly switched to southpaw in the sixth as he looked to reassert himself.

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Almost immediately, Mr Lee's party began to back-pedal.

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Cross the river at the Museum of Science and pedal back on the Cambridge side.

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Then you can walk down the steps and have a pleasant lunch and justify the second glass of cold Bergerac wine by virtue of having to pedal all the way back to Treyne in time for Champagne cocktails on the patio and one last death-defying inhalation of foie gras.

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When you take your foot off the pedal, it's hard to get it back.

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