Sentence examples for are withdrawing behind from inspiring English sources

If diplomats are withdrawing behind blast walls and armed escorts, and if that is costing us some useful understanding of the world, is the same thing happening to those who cover the news, and with what consequences?

Troops in the (second) line were withdrawn behind the ridge.

They look like getting left behind: already some garden centres are withdrawing neonicotinoid-based pesticides.

Moreover, a rejection of the Syria strike would make Mr. Obama less likely to leave behind a robust force in Afghanistan after combat troops are withdrawn at the end of 2014.

They are withdrawn.

Luftwaffe reconnaissance sorties revealed that the main body of the 7th Army was withdrawing towards Zagreb, leaving behind light forces to maintain contact with the German bridgeheads.

But by this time the Qaddafi soldiers were withdrawing under pressure, and their supplies were short and many of their heavier weapons had been left behind.

Even before the armoured train arrived, 3rd Army Corps had already been planned to be withdrawn from behind the Peel-Raam Position, taking with it all the artillery apart from 36 8 Staal pieces.

They rely on the teachers to tell them which children are in need of the most help, those who "seem to be withdrawn or a little behind in reading or behind in math".

This might be a suitable time to find out why the UK government was so determined in the security council that Dallaire's UN peacekeepers be withdrawn from Rwanda, leaving behind a "token force" in order to "appease public opinion" – not to protect civilians but to try to negotiate a ceasefire in the civil war.

On the night of 12/13 August, the 11th was withdrawn to the support line just behind the front.