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Examples of retreat


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Global warming sparks scramble for black gold under retreating ice.
Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision.
Their mood changed only after the governor - wi retreated into his palace.
However, after contact with the mucus, the ants retreated and exhibited antennal cleaning, especially when contact with the nectary took place soon after mucus treatment.
They can automate their response, as with a doomsday machine, or change their environment, as when troops burn their bridges to make retreats impossible.
Prospective proponents of universal worker protection policy retreated, conceding business prerogatives in the labor market.
In exploration, he advances, fixating the stimulus, just as he does if, after retreating, he regains courage and pursues the object.
After this loss of honour (for such was the decree's real significance), conservative nobles retreated into passivity or departed altogether.
To her, the increasingly guilty pleasure she took in retreating into her own imaginary world and characters was a form of false worship.
Whenever it seems that a summatory point is going to be made, the author persistently retreats into jargon, loading his sentences with unnecessarily complex terminology.
They believe that such terms can only stand for internal mechanisms; a behaviorist who uses them must therefore be retreating from behaviorism.
Study courses and retreats were methods used to spread the word among a core of activists.
As silence retreats, the sonic entity in our external world enters in and becomes part of the constant exchange inside us.
The literature also indicates that the glaciers generally retreated during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Middle-class residents were anxious to demarcate themselves from the working class, and sought to do so by retreating into private suburban domesticity.
Following - the subject followed a retreating opponent with the nose maintained close to the opponent's anogenital region.
During pursuit, the wasps continuously advanced and retreated, always attempting to orientate themselves near the rear of the ant and alight on their abdomens.
The disorderly retreats cost more men than in battle.
Before reaching the barrier all the ticks retreated, 17 skirting completely round the liquid.
By 1970, video was rarely seen in live performance and increasingly retreated into the studio, mediated almost to stultification by tedious and budgetconsuming editing systems.
However, having gone down a column, "retreating" upward no longer reduces the political visibility.
In other projects fireplaces are associated with libraries, boudoirs and salons, functioning both to define individual retreats or focus collective spaces.
In practice, the formal home help services have retreated less from personal care tasks than from household chores : relatives increasingly provide the latter.
Even so it was only a springboard to the outside world of meaningful social action, not a haven to which family members retreated.
As a consequence, the earlier questions regarding normative changes and the conditions under which discriminating attachments do or do not develop retreated into the background.
The repeat photography reveals how each glacier terminus has retreated over time.
I felt myself going down that path and have retreated quite a lot.
If it retreats to 3, it is interpreted as a ' let '-causative and marked with ni, as in (66b).
As the oppressors pushed them with the chairs, they resisted and struggled until the oppressors retreated, while the spect-actors remained on stage.
One, after a sensational first-sighting, seems to have retreated to outer space; its last perihelion was a disappointment.
In the meantime, states have gradually been retreating from the social responsibilities that characterized their early populist development.
The primary weakness of the book becomes evident when the author retreats from the constructionist insights he otherwise champions and argues in deterministic language.
Aggressive conservationism retreated in the face of nationalist protest in the late 1950s, but quickly regained its ascendancy after independence.
The site was removed from the sight of administrators and offered a suitable environment for the cleric's mystical retreats.
Targets were therefore not retreated with insecticide during the course of the trial.
Many architects today are aware of the problem but, not having the knowledge to develop their craft, have retreated into more traditional ways of building.
The male partner is sometimes prevented from mating by the female partner retreating into its shell.
I n the supporting period a strong, attached vortex behind the retreating edge helps autorotation.
In response to the vociferous criticisms of its budget by powerful ethnic lobby groups, the government retreated.
As the central state retreated as a territorialising power, it was partially replaced by the national union of schoolteachers organising at a national level.
During the summer, deer usually grazed on the pasture in the morning, but retreated to the woodland areas during the day, as they did during the winter.
The child's feelings should be acknowledged as legitimate before the researcher retreats to safer ground, such as a discussion of the family pets, favourite toys or particular achievements.
They took off after the retreating group.
The small amount of black dye downstream from the corner retreats, and no particles from the jet flow along the downstream wall at later times.
Simulations could be of sinusoidal or constant velocity movements and were realistic in that they accurately simulated the changes in image size that result from approaching or retreating from objects.
The long-standing limitations of community care have intersected in recent years with fundamental retreats in state interventions and social programmes, taken up in different forms across welfare jurisdictions.
Transferring this idea into institutional ar rangements for social welfare, the state in the social consumption sphere seems to be indispensable especially when it retreats from the economic sphere.
Their rapid seasonal advances and retreats indicated a thickness in these seasonal caps of no more than 100-200 mm (the residual caps at each pole could be much thicker).
Although clinical experts agree that patients can be retreated with any of the surgical procedures available, this study assumed that patients receive only open colposuspension as a secondary procedure.
The daylight retreats of these flies were often similar to those in which they were found at night, providing always that there was an absence of direct light.
Most often, the daylight-firelight dichotomy was primary, with subsidiary themes explored within the context of individual dwellings - for instance, fireplaces defining individual retreats or fostering communal gathering.
After lying dying with his legs curled up in a foetal position, he retreats into the bath, then starts all over again, never managing to deliver himself from the womb.
The three accounts of home care found in this study offer a glimpse of the complexities and tensions of home care receipt in the face of its retreating public provision.
As in the supporting period, the above situation shows that the delay of vortex shedding at the retreating edge by itself is insufficient to describe autorotation.
Their rapid seasonal advances and retreats indicate a thickness in these seasonal caps of no more than 100-200 mm (the residual caps at each pole could be much thicker).
Ultimately, in both countries the reliance on local government for religious mediation was bound to decline as religious observance declined and spirituality retreated into the private domain.
I code these elections as contested in the sense that while the results were certainly influenced by the retreating military, the election results were not pre-determined.
The structural involution, resulting from the retreating capitalist relations of production, brought about intensification of petty-commodity production and selfemployed service activities and a decline in wage labor.
In its emergent welfare economy, the third sector has been hailed as a new growth point in social care as the state retreats from direct provision of welfare services.
The female usually retreats and is pursued by the male, until, reaching her, he mounts ; his abdomen is curved downwards and under that of the female, and mating takes place.
Defeating such a campaign, in 1947 as in 1933, was a matter of painting retreats in the colours of reform and convincing doubters that they would strengthen imperial ties.
There were 30 nations behind you and you retreated.
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Looking back over these six years we have had a series of blunders, betrayals and retreats.
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In parallel with the ever-growing importance of the issues at stake, they have been conducting ever-greater retreats on the specific policy issues.
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They suspended negotiations in the sub-committee, and, when talks were resumed later, they appeared to have retreated from their previous positions.
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Certainly the revisions and the retreats which have taken place are of immense benefit to future pensioners.
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When the residents retreated into the tower blocks and the business did not return to the city centre, there was nothing left.
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There is no question of retreating from that or anything else.
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He seems to be retreating as far away as possible from this unsavoury proposal, but he is still just about here.
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The unemployed person who develops a sense of guilt and shame about his unemployment, when it is the fault of others, retreats into isolation.
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Today, the red squirrel has retreated to a few outposts.
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Our policies have been based on the principle of pushing forward a little and then retreating a little.
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There is no question of our retreating from our election commitments on the matter.
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I take it that he is not retreating from those wise words.
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Let them not believe that we are retreating or betraying the cause in which we have so often proclaimed our trust.
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One might as well say that the burglar who retreats in front of a successful counter-attack by the householder is making a gesture towards peace.
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Atrocities committed by retreating and excited troops are not unknown in almost all armies—in all armies in the world.
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They have now abandoned even that, and are continually retreating into factionalism and greater division.
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No caveats or hidden retreats were involved then.
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One tries to defend the barricade which one feels is most important and then, as that is lost, one retreats and defends those further back.
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We were told that some of the hens retreated into the cages.
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In the letter the council seems to be retreating from the admission that it had made to the area health authority.
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The farming community has retreated into itself behind walls of disinfected straw.
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There is no question of us retreating from that.
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If he is attacking, he is picked up by his own troops; but if he is retreating, he is in the bag.
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He compares good art to music in its formal excellence but then retreats in favour of substantive value.
Liberalisation of ownership is seldom a matter of states retreating to a policy of indifference.
No wonder he became strange, retreating partially, into a private world: who wouldn't?
Physically, this would correspond to transition from a retreating to an advancing saturation front.
Silently the economists retreated in the face of the facts, and population came to be regarded as outside the economic paradigm.
From 1953 onwards, his sympathies, although with some remarkable 'tactical' retreats to orthodoxy, have been mostly with communist reformism.
The inhabitants gradually retreated from the advancing flies; they lost many cattle, and now the area is completely uninhabited.
Conversely, more cultivable land might have been available during periods of low sea stands as these wetlands retreated.
Fleeing - the subject retreated rapidly from the opponent.
There is a recurring pattern whereby as an individual or an occupation rises in status, so it retreats from direct body contact.
The ticks stopped suddenly on entering the region of the odour and, after waving their front legs, quickly retreated.
First, universities could encourage professors to go on writing retreats.
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