backtrackings

There've been other backtrackings at gunpoint of late, shakedown being a pastime any Democrat who's aggrieved and organized can play.

A Woman Called Hope Installs Mrs. Clinton At Democratic Podium 2004

There've been other backtrackings at gunpoint of late, shakedown being a pastime any Democrat who's aggrieved and organized can play.

A Woman Called Hope Installs Mrs. Clinton At Democratic Podium 2004

With frequent halts and backtrackings, and carefully omitting any mention of his tumblings with Calissa, he told Ludya of the events that had unfolded after her exile from the Manse.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

With frequent halts and backtrackings, and carefully omitting any mention of his tumblings with Calissa, he told Ludya of the events that had unfolded after her exile from the Manse.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

This meant the first of several backtrackings that would extend the journey and frustrate the men.

TheZoo 2009

Little backtrackings don’t mean much when your whole argument is that loving the person you marry ought to be forbidden by law.

California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto 2005

Little backtrackings don’t mean much when your whole argument is that loving the person you marry ought to be forbidden by law.

California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto 2005

If this narrative at times confuses with its backtrackings and leaps forward, it does so in an attempt to represent the bewilderments of the time. "

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