RESILE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of resile in English

Examples of resile

resile
That is an internationally accepted principle and it is one from which it is difficult to resile.
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We do not want to resile from those challenging targets, but to give them that stability.
They should not be allowed to resile from that responsibility.
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There is an absolute duty involved and there is no way in which an employer can resile from that position.
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I have never resiled from the position that registration had to be compulsory.
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I resile completely from his conditions for meeting the test of patriotism.
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There is nothing from which to resile in wanting to see the £100 million a day we spend on the health service used to best effect.
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I have never heard any of them resile from that objective, but it is not being implemented in practice.
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We do not resile, therefore, from our support for the amendments relating to the dominant position.
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I do not resile in any way from the proposition that the free market would bring about this eradication of disparities.
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I hope that we will not now resile from that obligation.
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I support the idea of the community charge and do not resile from it.
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I think that, having noted the lack of substance in the proposals, many are resiling from the proposition that top-up fees are the answer.
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What is being done in housing is to resile from a policy of an open-ended responsibility for house building.
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We have no intention to resile from that.
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Translations of resile

in Chinese (Traditional)
中止履行, 中輟…
in Chinese (Simplified)
中止履行, 中辍…
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