• This complicated climb-down by the ECB will do something to bridge that gap.

    BBC: European Central Bank bows to reality over Greek bonds

  • It was the clerical establishment, after all, that guided Iran's nuclear climb-down, despite vetoing Mr Khatami's earlier efforts to make concessions.

    ECONOMIST: Iran's diplomacy

  • After a humiliating climb-down, Mr Duncan Smith was forced to re-employ Mr Gilbert and had to get rid of Mr Legg expensively.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The government's climb-down averted that, but leaves the industry bleeding cash and sinking in debt, despite significant downsizing over the past four years.

    ECONOMIST: The miners fight off government plans to slim the industry

  • Any sign of a climb-down by the government may well strengthen the determination of other public sector workers to push their claims or take industrial action.

    BBC: Analysis

  • Although his motives have been obscure, it may be that his weapons climb-down was inspired less by concern for his head than for his legacy.

    ECONOMIST: Libya

  • She said she took "full responsibility" for the climb-down, which was required after it became clear "the public and many MPs are not happy with the proposals".

    BBC: Government performs u-turn on forest sell off

  • Bad news being best bundled, Mr Maroni used his committee appearance to announce a second climb-down: the ending of a provision for automatic expulsion for EU citizens who cannot show that they have adequate means of subsistence.

    ECONOMIST: Italian immigration

  • Two more successful kicks from Biggar, the second coming after Munster number eight James Coughlan was sin-binned for hands in the ruck, left the home side with a mountain to climb at 15-3 down.

    BBC: Munster 11-15 Ospreys

  • "It's always a big mountain to climb going 3-0 down, but we've always believed we are a good side and that we can contest against Australia, " added Surrey's Tremlett, who has been awarded an incremental contract for the 2010-11 international season by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

    BBC: Australia's Shane Watson set for Brisbane return

  • Racers follow the stream -- jumping off small cliffs and through waterfalls -- and a final rock face at the base creates one of the last challenges, requiring concentration and crab-walking to climb down.

    BBC: An Alaskan-style Fourth of July

  • During a single afternoon, I saw several orangutans climb down trees and craft umbrella-like hats out of leaves when an intense rainstorm rolled in.

    BBC: Malaysian Borneo on a single circuit

  • Congressional approval ratings climb off of multi-decade lows as unemployment creeps down to 7.5%.

    FORBES: There is also some possibility that the world won't end, you know

  • It would help France to climb down from its own strident position on Iraq if the Americans toned down their own strident anti-French rhetoric.

    ECONOMIST: How France could improve its foreign policy

  • Interim manager Aurelio Andreazzoli had said before the game that his team "won't lack commitment" against the Italian champions and so it proved as Roma arrested their freefall down the table and instead climb to seventh above Udinese and Catania -- ahead of their games against Genoa and Bologna on Sunday.

    CNN: Messi passes another milestone as Barca ease 15 clear

  • The gravel-pit is not really dangerous if you don't try to climb down the edges, but go the slow safe way round by the road, as if you were a cart.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'

  • Tethered to a large helium-filled balloon, the 23-pound Sword, as it's known, was able to climb up and down the long cable while workers kept the balloon steady with guide ropes.

    ENGADGET: Space elevator robot reaches 1000 feet

  • India fell 12 percent - that is an unbelievable drop, although it did climb up to end around 7.5 percent down.

    NPR: Steep Drop in Global Stock Markets Monday

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