What's the difference between backdown and withdrawal?
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.
Withdrawal
Definition:
(n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(2) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(3) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
(4) The clinical course was observed in 50 patients while the remaining 10 were hospitalized and submitted to esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy and colonoscopy both before and after treatment for withdrawal of duodenal secretion and fragments of duodenojejunal and colonic mucosa biopsies.
(5) In the total sample, PEI factors and negative nominations were more stable than positive nominations, and PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable than negative nominations.
(6) The model identified the following important variables: sex (relative risk (rr) = 2.4), beta-blocker withdrawal (rr = 2.1), performance on exercise test and digitalis treatment (rr = 2.3, P less than 0.05).
(7) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
(8) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(9) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(10) However, there has been a need for a way to measure withdrawal behavior quantitatively over time.
(11) Twelve weeks after withdrawal heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress were normalized.
(12) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
(13) Withdrawal of the drug and application of all-trans retinoic acid ointment resulted in resolving of the keratinisation.
(14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
(15) Side effects of carbenoxolone therapy were observed, but they did not necessitate withdrawal of the drug and were readily controlled in every instance.
(16) The maximal density of [3H] 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n- propylamino)tetralin [( 3H] 8-OH-DPAT) binding (Bmax) to 5-HT1a receptors was decreased by 25 and 17% in the hippocampus during chronic ethanol intoxication and withdrawal, respectively.
(17) The whole body withdrawal reaction of freshwater snail Planorbarius corneus consists of two phases.
(18) Furthermore, patients with alcohol-related atrial fibrillation were significantly more likely to manifest alcohol withdrawal syndrome than were other inpatients with heavy alcohol use.
(19) Withdrawal from long-term treatment with benzodiazepines was followed in three patients by a severe delusional depression.
(20) A similar increase in HDL-cholesterol was observed in the E2 + NETA group, following withdrawal.