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- verb Present participle of
resile .
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Examples
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Nothing like, of course, stifling democracy by resiling from your promise to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution.
Archive 2007-09-16 2007
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Nothing like, of course, stifling democracy by resiling from your promise to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution.
Nut Cutlets, Anyone? 2007
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Their impact on the reconstruction was shown indirectly in the 2003 reconstruction; the identification of their role in the situation came through further analysis of the 2003 results, but in no way represents a resiling or moving the goal posts.
Ammann at AGU: If You Had One Question.. « Climate Audit 2006
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Now they seem to be resiling from that and Wahl and Ammann say that they are only trying for “low-frequency”.
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The politician said he was sorry that his comments had caused offense, but he stopped short of resiling from his position.
Archive 2005-05-01 daveberta 2005
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The politician said he was sorry that his comments had caused offense, but he stopped short of resiling from his position.
how appropriate daveberta 2005
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Innes_, late of the _Calton, Glasgow_; while yet it was observed, that both used a freedom, not formerly common to them, anent the present authority, in their public immediate addresses to the object of worship; which, together with their apparent resiling from part of their former testimony occasioned stumbling to some of their people, and terminated in the separation of others.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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Marriage, and prepared to make what he called a ` ` sma 'minute, to prevent parties frae resiling.' '
The Waverley 1877
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In an economy of around £1.5 trillion, that is quite trivial - no Plan B; no resiling from the Coalition's deficit-reduction programme.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew Lilico 2011
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At a time when we are resiling from bling, labels and conspicuous consumption, they offer sturdy, reasonable value, unflashy goods.
bilby commented on the word resiling
For a moment there I thought I'd randomed some riesling :-/
July 28, 2022