Sentence examples for apparent retreat from inspiring English sources

News of energy giant E.ON's apparent retreat spread quickly through the protest movement via text messages and Twitter.

For him, the new economy's apparent retreat amounts to the "triumph of the Eastern establishment over the West".

Their apparent retreat threatens to bear heavily on everything from the region's drinking water supply to agricultural production to disease and floods.

Clinton administration officials, while acknowledging that the new interpretation was far different from their own, attributed the gun maker's apparent retreat to industry pressure.

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S eloquent endorsement on Friday of a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center, followed by his apparent retreat the next day, was just one of many paradoxes at the heart of the increasingly impassioned controversy.

It bears an uncanny resemblance to his apparent retreat over the use of force in Syria, which also started with some off-the-cuff remarks and ended with a failure to properly read Congress.

Yet this "red line" was crossed almost with impunity.There were sound arguments for all these apparent American retreats.

Libya has demanded an explanation for the "kidnapping" of one of its citizens by American special forces, hours after a separate US military raid on a terrorist target in Somalia ended in apparent failure and retreat.

But even without sophisticated equipment the glacier's retreat was apparent.

And, in an apparent swipe at the retreat of the Georgian army, which received supplies from the United States, the Russian general commanding the town, Vyachislav N. Borisov, noted in particular the risk if looters seized what he said were thousands of abandoned, American-made assault rifles at a military base.

That became apparent at a December 2003 retreat on systems biology that Suk organized for the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training, where speakers included an engineer, a biochemist, a computer scientist, and a physician each of whom approaches the field from his or her own perspective.