climb down

The exposure of the company files has contributed to Trafigura's climbdown after three years of bitterly contested legal battles.

Many Tories would also be happy to see a climbdown, which seems likely.

Japan was forced into a humiliating climbdown after it arrested a Chinese trawlerman accused of trespassing in its waters.

Moves in the direction of a euro-zone economic government look like a climbdown.

It is a humiliating climbdown for a country that, until a few months ago, imported Polish workers to do its grimy jobs.

Hopes for a Chinese climbdown have been fuelled by the expected retirement soon of Mr Tian as Xinhua president.

With both governments having taken a tough public line, and nationalist sentiment running high, orchestrating a climbdown will not be easy.

When the charges were formally set this week as suspicion of commercial crimes, it marked a significant climbdown by Chinese authorities.

Tokyo's apparent climbdown in releasing the captain provoked a backlash at home.

An official at the Chinese mission in Geneva denied that the agreement represented a total climbdown by China.

Some of those opponents were members of Congress who hauled Mr Herz in to testify last year, leading to a partial climbdown on fair value.

An online revolt forces the government into an embarrassing tax climbdown