Sentence examples for continuing retreat from inspiring English sources

The continuing retreat on alternative energy, for instance – subsidies for onshore wind farms ended – got no mention.

And it's only fair to recall that the elites of the previously unsubjugated people had themselves been energetic trophy hunters who had presided over the continuing retreat of alpha predators into smaller and smaller habitats.

But both the anti-Trident vote at Labour's Scottish conference and Cameron's failure to construct a cross-party coalition against Isis are symptoms of the same thing: Britain's continuing retreat from the global role, military as well as economic and imperial, that it had assumed for at least three centuries.

To gauge the threat of a continuing retreat, glaciologists will be probing deep within the glacier to see why it might be the ice sheet's "weak underbelly".

Warming is expected to be strongest in the Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice.

Model simulations indicate a continuing retreat and the possibility of ice-free summers in the Arctic Ocean within 20 years [ 5].

Seroussi, H. et al. Continued retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, controlled by bed topography and ocean circulation.

Or do cross-cultural occurrences like the sure-to-be-successful second installment of FriendsFest signify a greater, collective desire to continue retreating to a time, place, and state of mind in which it was easier to ignore the regularly occurring injustices that continue to plague society.

Thwaites, he said, was a 120km-wide "monster glacier" that is continuing its retreat with huge future implications, because it could potentially add 0.6 metres to rising seas.

Continuing its retreat from the international expansion, the bank last week announced the sale of the remaining 80 percent of CLSA, its Asian investment banking business, to Citic Securities, the Chinese investment bank, for $841 million.

According to nasa's latest calculations, it is continuing to retreat at a rate of nine per cent per decade and could well disappear by the end of this century.