Hillary Clinton of New York appeared to endorse it, then backed away from it.

CNN: Future of Spitzer, dubbed 'Eliot Ness,' suddenly cloudy

German exchange Deutsche Boerse and Australian bank Macquarie have also bid and then backed away from the LSE after being rejected by its board.

FORBES: Nasdaq Has A Trick Up Its Sleeve

India hinted that it would suspend the state government during the election to reduce the risk of rigging, then backed away for fear of offending the chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, whose National Conference party is part of the coalition that governs in Delhi.

ECONOMIST: On the eve of voting, a law minister is shot dead

Tom Coburn pushed and then backed away from an amendment to block the Department of Veteran Affairs from automatically entering the names of veterans deemed "mentally incompetent" to handle their finances from having their names entered into a national background check system, thereby blocking them from gun ownership.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The CFTC for a time appeared to be using the same model for an identifier it required for swaps, but then backed away and said it would wait for the global development of an LEI and call its identifier the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier (CICI) a sort of LEI Lite which will convert or yield to the LEI standard once it is adopted.

FORBES: Financial LEI's -- Required To Reduce Operational Risk

When you buy a mortgage-backed bond, you are in effect buying a straight bond and then giving away a call option to the homeowners.

FORBES: Magazine Article

He had two good shooting opportunities in the first half but from the first he shot wide of the far post from 25 yards, and then saw a close-range effort blocked by France keeper Lloris after William Gallas had inexplicably backed away from Salcido's run.

BBC: France 0-2 Mexico