Sentence examples for flee advancing from inspiring English sources

In the end he decided against it; too many civilians, he realized, were using the roads to flee advancing Union soldiers.

The road is much as it was in 1942, when it was hastily built by the British, then the rulers of India and Myanmar, to help its soldiers flee advancing Japanese troops.

The constant demand for labor and forced porters by the Burmese military as it operates in remote jungle areas affects all aspects of life for ethnic minorities, causing food insecurity, disrupted educations, decreased health, and increased displacement as villagers flee advancing military groups [ 18].

They had heard the same story repeatedly that day told by stragglers fleeing advancing Confederates.

AS a young refugee, Henry Siegman found himself fleeing advancing German troops in Belgium early in World War II.

He and other monks fled advancing Soviet troops and, by a circuitous route, arrived at the Jordanville monastery in 1946.

Their father, Ralph Miliband, was a Marxist intellectual and writer who reached Britain from Belgium in 1940 after fleeing advancing Nazi forces.

When Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, fled advancing French troops in 1798 he took with him to Palermo some 20 works from the remarkable Farnese collection, his grandmother Elisabetta having been the last of the Farnese line.

In 1799, when Charles's son, Ferdinand IV King of Naples, fled advancing French troops, he took with him to Palermo some 20 works from the Farnese Collection its Titians and "Antea".

The officials said they had no other evidence to suggest that the Tanzanian, Issaya Nombo, might be tied to members of the Qaeda terrorist network, who appear to have left the document in a cave while fleeing advancing American forces.

In the BBC interview on Sunday, Mr. Miliband used the occasion to invoke, in a humorous aside, a family history that right-wing critics have adduced as part of their 'Red Ed' attacks — the fact that the brothers' father, Ralph Miliband, was a Marxist intellectual and writer who reached Britain from Belgium in 1940 after fleeing advancing Nazi forces.