I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
Source: wiktionary
Resile
//ɹəˈzaɪl//
Synonyms for "resile" (28 found)
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8 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- отскачам verb (to spring back; rebound)
Czech
1 entries- vrátit se verb (to spring back; rebound)
Finnish
2 entries- palautua verb (to spring back; rebound)
- vetäytyä verb (to start back; recoil)
Hungarian
4 entries- eláll verb (to start back; recoil)
- meghátrál verb (to start back; recoil)
- visszalép verb (to start back; recoil)
- visszapattan verb (to spring back; rebound)
Italian
1 entries- retrocedere verb (to spring back; rebound)
Spanish
1 entries- retroceder verb (to start back; recoil)
Swedish
4 entries- dra sig ur verb (to start back; recoil)
- rekylera verb (to spring back; rebound)
- rygga tillbaka verb (to start back; recoil)
- studsa tillbaka verb (to spring back; rebound)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require that the public authority resiles in order properly to protect those wider interests.
Source: wiktionary
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