In his hundred-day press conference he talked about -- he seemed to step back from that.
As the eurozone struggles for survival, the UK has opted to step back from the melee.
He wants Washington to step back from its role of negotiating and supervising Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
Under intense fire, the president could now choose to take a step back from the battlefield.
If the U.S. were to step back from this position, increased Chinese repression of Tibetans would likely follow.
Step back from the market madness and the big picture still seems promising.
However, it worries me that negotiations revealed a desire by some to step back from established commitments and principles.
So allies such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt were not happy to see America step back from the conflict.
But Mr Geoghegan may not be ready to step back from the fray.
Any settlement would have been only a temporary step back from the cliff.
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Columbia University history professor Eric Foner, also a Lincoln scholar, has said people should take a step back from the comparisons.
But despite several recent high profile appearances, the duke has taken a step back from public life in the past year.
Indeed, in his inaugural, he seemed to step back from overhauling entitlements, portraying himself as chief defender of Medicare and Social Security.
It is only when you step back from individual problems that patterns emerge that help a company understand the root causes of problems.
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For the world economy to step back from the brink is going to take the sort of leadership not yet seen in Europe.
"I would urge the First Minister to step back from any attempt to interfere with the professional independence of the PSNI, " he said.
Now the guy responsible for that secret sauce, chief technology officer Paul Berry, is taking a step back from his day-to-day duties.
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When I step back from this simulation, I muse that such a condition is unacceptable to business, labor, the unemployed, pensioners and even politicians.
After all, the last time the famously hands-on producer took a step back from the show (during season two), it took a creative tumble.
But it would have taken a giant step back from disaster.
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But the more likely result is that neither film will open at their respective potential because neither studio was willing to step back from the cliff.
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The rally was billed as an event to celebrate return to reason, a step back from the shouting and name-calling prevalent in the current political climate.
One way to step back from this is to simply take the average quarterly growth for the past six months, which appears to have been 0.3%.
Patrick Coyne, editor of Communication Arts, has also witnessed this change, what he calls a maturity in art photographers, to step back from relying on technology.
But, if you step back from the monthly and quarterly figures, there IS quite a lot of evidence that the slow economic fix to the crisis is happening.
"Only then can we take a step back from this big picture, " he says, "and see the common elements that give us, the English, a sense of belonging".
In the more nuanced Obama era, Chavez cut a less assured and less influential figure, particularly as his health problems forced him to step back from the limelight.
And this is one of the other issues that Netanyahu was upset about, is that he thought that President Obama took a step back from the official position.
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