He did not, however, resile from Mrs Bennett's description of how the policy actually would apply.

Mr Morrison said the move was "common sense" and he would not resile from it.

In the end, Alan Rusbridger had little choice but to resile from becoming chair of the Scott Trust.

David Seymour isn't about to resile from an issue he is passionate about, so that is not a viable tactic.

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Some of my readers were quite incensed about the piece, but I have no reason to resile from the position taken.

Johnson refused to resile from his broader defence of the role of Rupert Murdoch in liberating newspapers from the print unions' grip.

Shane Jones is thumbing his nose at the Prime Minister, refusing to resile from his comments about Indian students ruining academic institutions in New Zealand.

The more I resiled from their excessive civilities, the more I was loaded with them.

The government won't confirm any details, but is not resiling from its determination to make substantial changes.

The self-proclaimed champion of the regions, Shane Jones, is not resiling from his attack on the dairy giant Fonterra.

Mr Marape later resiled from this, saying China was among a number of parties the government was talking with about its debt.

The Act Party leader, Don Brash, is not resiling from his view that New Zealand is suffering because successive governments have given Maori preferential treatment.