Sentence examples for consider retreating from inspiring English sources

Mrs Thatcher's refusal even to consider retreating was seen by many MPs as a political death sentence.

I consider retreating to my car, but a sudden sharp pit! jolts my senses like a static charge.

At the age of 56, after 21 years of staring down criminals, an ordinary human being might consider retreating from the public eye, rather than moving toward even greater media exposure.

He also suggests that this position is theoretically disingenuous because no one would consider retreating to it from full-blown maximalism unless he or she had already been "spooked" by his or her failure to find truth-makers for negative truths; or if they held onto the view that truth is correspondence (Merricks 2007: 40 1; Dodd 2007: 394; Cameron 2008a: 411).

When asked if he would consider retreating to the forest, the Troll Person became highly offended.

(The ford at Williamsport, Maryland, was 10 mile northwest from Sharpsburg and had been used by Jackson in his march to Harpers Ferry. The disposition of Union forces during the battle made it impractical to consider retreating in that direction).

We briefly considered retreating, but why?

I considered retreating back to bed, ignoring him.

North might have considered retreating to one spade, but South was most unlikely to have 4-4 in the major suits.

And, to do that, he's considering retreating to the shelter of matching funds for the few extra million it would offer in the short run.

The war was not going well for the loyalists and the new regency government considered retreating to Ireland.