But this president is loving the bully pulpit and he is not about to climb down.
Public opinion in China might be making it difficult for Chinese leaders to climb down.
Still, if Mr Abbas has indeed decided to climb down, it will be a precarious operation.
All that remained to wait for was how the climb down was going to happen, not whether.
Chinese analyst says Beijing held back so as to give Pyongyang room to climb down and resume talks.
Passengers were eventually allowed to climb down a ladder and walk along the track to a level crossing.
At Finse station, passengers climb down to the platform with packs and sturdy boots, their breath visible in the cold mountain air.
Eventually, the diplomats hope, Iran, in an increasingly tight spot, will reach for both as its ladder to climb down on.
Climb down a darkened staircase lined with rotating photography exhibit and walk through a sparkling hallway covered entirely in gold leaf.
He could be Pygmalion watching his statue climb down off her pedestal.
Ron, for months, the conventional wisdom has been that the Democrats in Congress eventually will climb down and give the president the money.
During a single afternoon, I saw several orangutans climb down trees and craft umbrella-like hats out of leaves when an intense rainstorm rolled in.
As talented as it is, it can't unsuction itself, climb down, cross the room, pause for a beer, and start on the next window.
It would help France to climb down from its own strident position on Iraq if the Americans toned down their own strident anti-French rhetoric.
But some Western diplomats and Palestinian officials hint that Mr Abbas, with a helping hand from Arab states, is quietly poised to climb down.
The fire quickly took hold as the stairwell acted like a chimney, forcing many of the occupants to jump from the building or climb down drainpipes.
"All of them died either jumping from the 10th floor of the building or while trying to climb down to escape the fire, " said Iqbal Bahar, of Dhaka police.
The gravel-pit is not really dangerous if you don't try to climb down the edges, but go the slow safe way round by the road, as if you were a cart.
Diplomats from other nations told journalists privately that the billionaire Italian prime minister was doing so to prevent actions against himself over his murky business dealings and he was forced to climb down.
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Although South Korea and the United States are weary of this game, South Korea has started to provide opportunities for North Korea to climb down as spring military exercises start to wrap up.
Quiet diplomacy and a cooling off period leading Beijing and Tokyo to hand each other a ladder to climb down might prove more helpful in averting some grave miscalculation over the divisive islets.
California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, had to climb down from open confrontation with the CCPOA in 2005, but is now proposing to privatise much of the state's prison system precisely to evade its grip.
Racers follow the stream -- jumping off small cliffs and through waterfalls -- and a final rock face at the base creates one of the last challenges, requiring concentration and crab-walking to climb down.
Such contests can continue into the small hours, since the government is understandably keen to preserve the substance of their proposals, but peers know that ministers will be reluctant to force them to climb down.
So, since Bertie Ahern's government is a minority coalition already badly buffeted by financial scandal and reliant on four maverick independents to stay afloat, it was little wonder that Mr McCreevy was forced to climb down.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Seoul says Pyongyang will likely use the delay to its advantage in propaganda, and say the US has been forced to climb down in the face of resilience from the North Korean army.
So, my insider believes that having raised the possibility of war, "made everyone's flesh creep, and marched us up to the top of the mountain", the Israel leader is now looking for a "gilded ladder" to climb down.
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