What's the difference between backdown and retraction?
Backdown
Definition:
(n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freddie Gray protests sweep US from Baltimore to New York – as it happened Read more Protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge.
(2) After the Coalition announced the backdown Turnbull was questioned on Twitter about backing the policy on Triple J.
(3) But the government’s backdown has triggered a furious response from the chief backers of the changes, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), which portrayed it as a clear broken promise.
(4) Labor welcomed the backdown but said it was “humiliating” for Brandis who had defended the planned removal of provisions against offending, insulting or humiliating people on the basis of race as late as Monday.
(5) He was promptly criticised for linking the backdown on the RDA to the terrorism measures.
(6) 'We shut them up': Melbourne celebrates border force backdown Read more He said nothing untoward had happened except the agency’s issuing a poorly-worded press release, describing it as a mistake and “over-the-top”.
(7) Construction of Australia’s largest ever mine will be well underway before its impact upon the environment is known, with a requirement to replace critically endangered habitat razed by the project pushed back by two full years after a backdown by the federal government.
(8) Hong Kong is no stranger to large-scale protests pushing back against Beijing: huge numbers took to the streets over controversial security laws in 2003 and plans for compulsory “patriotic education” two years ago – on both occasions prompting backdowns, though few expect a similar outcome this time.
(9) Around 100 people detained without charge following riots in Baltimore on Monday were released from detention on Wednesday night after a raft of petitions filed with the city’s public defenders led to a backdown by authorities.
(10) For lovers of women’s faces being covered, don’t get ur hopes up on a backdown.
(11) The Greens deputy leader, Adam Bandt, said he celebrated the fact the Senate had successfully stared down “the government’s plans to throw thousands out of work by cutting almost a billion dollars out of the auto industry without a transition plan.” “But this backdown is not enough to create sustainable jobs in a cleaner Australian car industry,” Bandt said Tuesday.
(12) That doesn’t mean a retreat; it doesn’t mean a backdown.
(13) The comments, reported in the Courier Mail on Sunday , signal the next priority for the conservative MP will be to force a backdown on the backpacker tax, after he led a successful revolt on superannuation that resulted in major changes to government policy .
(14) Malcolm Turnbull (@TurnbullMalcolm) @triplej September 5, 2013 The opposition leader, Tony Abbott, was also questioned about the backdown while campaigning, and admitted he had only skimmed the policy before it was published.
(15) There is little chance of a backdown by the WA government.
(16) Innes Willox, chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, said the backdown on the company tax cut was “a major disappointment” because the existing rate of 30% was internationally uncompetitive.
(17) But on Tuesday Tony Abbott announced the abandonment of the changes, casting the backdown as an attempt to preserve “national unity” as the government pursued a vast expansion of Australian anti-terrorism powers.
(18) I’m not afraid of people saying, it’s a backdown, or a backflip, an agile government is prepared to abandon policies that don’t work.
(19) As more facts came to light yesterday, I don’t think there’s a single Victorian and indeed a single Australian whose jaw just didn’t hit the ground.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A protest in Melbourne triggers the border force backdown.
(20) The hallmark bullying swagger of this government’s was matched in this instance by a grovelling backdown as the illegality of the proposed actions become clear and public condemnation overwhelming, and the arse-saving swung into full gear.
Retraction
Definition:
(n.) The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.
(n.) The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.
(n.) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew.
(n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(2) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(3) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
(4) During the first 15 to 20 min of metamorphosis the larval arms are retracted and resorbed into the aboral surface of the juvenile.
(5) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(6) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(7) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
(8) She said she was not worried by Rubio’s one-time position on his immigration bill, later retracted, that he could not support reform if it included citizenship for gay couples.
(9) Useful differential morphological criteria can be: star-like or transverse ring-shaped profile of isolated ulcerations, tubular ileocolic junction with retracted cecum and open valve, and uniformity of lesion in the comprehensive picture of the clinical case.
(10) Both require more brain retraction and have greater risk to the facial nerve than the translabyrinthine approach.
(11) Unlike posterior tympanoplasty, this technique makes it possible to meticulously remove the osteitic bone invariably found in the facial recess when there is infection of the retraction pocket.
(12) In the third patient laparotomy was applied owing to the bleeding from the retracted, cut uterine artery.
(13) Because of laboratory and clinical observation that recurrent nerve paralysis retracts the involved vocal cord from the midline, it was proposed that deliberate section of the recurrent nerve would improve the vocal quality of patients with spastic dysphonia.
(14) Seven to 30 days following axotomy the volume of the hypoglossal nucleus was significantly diminished, undoubtedly reflecting dendritic retraction (P less than 0.05).
(15) Contacts resulting in collapse and retraction were often accompanied by a rapid and transient burst of lamellipodial activity along the neurite 30-50 microns proximal to the retracting growth cone.
(16) At three, six, and twelve months after the first operation the development of retraction pockets was also studied.
(17) The anchoring wire can also be retracted and repositioned.
(18) The right occipital lobe is retracted laterally from the falx cerebri.
(19) These experiments demonstrated that accessory abducens is a primary controller of eye retraction through its axons to retractor bulbi.
(20) A commercial system for producing retracted compensators has been adapted to suit local needs, and is evaluated here.