What does resile mean?
Resile means To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose..
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/ɹɪˈzaɪl/ · verb
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose..
I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require that the public authority resiles in order properly to protect those wider interests.
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Resile means To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose..
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I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
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