1.   The crowd surged around him, and the police backed off.

2.   The police had to hand back their metal detectors etc, in the court.

3.   A husband can prevent his wife from traveling abroad, and the police will back up his legal right to stop her.

4.   Again the police backed down.

5.   In a further humiliation for Milosevic, the police backed off when thousands of supporters of the strikers converged on the mine in response to their calls for help.

6.   In London on Wednesday, the Home Office said immigration officials backed by police had detained eight foreign nationals suspected of being international terrorists.

7.   Nor have they been assuaged by the fact that the police have recently backed away from that notion, apparently unable to find evidence to support it.

8.   On Tuesday the police backed away from a complete exoneration of Moore and Brown.

9.   Police backed Catholic neighbors who objected to the organization they see as threatening from marching through their minority neighborhood.

10.   Publicity police backed off when it turned out to be their dad.