He "shoved [his] right arm down his throat", the bear retreated.
Some polar bears retreat to land, where feeding opportunities are limited, or stay on sea ice that in recent years has retreated far north of the shallow, biologically abundant outer continental shelf.
In the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, polar bears retreat each summer to the ice further north that remains frozen year-round.
To judge by the average, the bears have retreated and equity losses have been all but restored.
What bothers him most is that polar bears are retreating further north.
Some voters, it seems, are like bears - retreating from the ballot box as the cold of winter approaches, before returning with the flowers of spring.
Kirlin's Dwyer sees signs that the bears are retreating, pointing to the ability of the Nasdaq Composite index to sustain gains despite negative news like Nokia's soft fourth-quarter handset sales.
Facing the possibility of being pinned between the bears, with the young bear ahead of us and the older bear behind, we retreated uphill into the forest and began moving overland toward camp.
Al-Ikhshid sent an army under the eunuchs Abu al-Misk Kafur and Fatik against the Hamdanid, but it was defeated bear Hama and retreated back to Egypt, abandoning Damascus and Palestine to the Hamdanids.
And in Chicago, even the polar bear at the Lincoln Park zoo retreated inside as the weather dropped to a record low of -26C.
When a bear visits an apiary, it looks as though the bear planted a bomb and then retreated to the edge of the woods to detonate it.
