And that could congeal into a serious electoral silence in 2010 and 2012, not unlike what we saw in 2000 with the left retreating to support Ralph Nader.
A safety margin was intentionally left, retreating the needle around 2-3 mm from the infratemporal crest.
Send some snipers to pick off the harder to kill people and when there are few people left, retreat to base, reload and do the same operation from base to defend.
Just as Elle has a choice to make when she's down and counted out, quit, leave, retreat to the familiar, or step outside one's self, move forward, change, reinvent, keep going to get what you want, well, many in the audience are facing those same dilemmas in very real world terms.
A Daily Mail profile called him an autistic teen who was "so badly bullied [at school] that he left and retreated into a computer fantasy world".
As the Byzantine left center retreated under three-pronged attacks of Khalid, the Byzantine left wing, having been exposed at its southern flank, also fell back.
Or will the statist play to turn America into Europe fail, forcing the American left to retreat again, like Sisyphus, embittered, but determined to keep trying?
The "funding gap" left by retreating banks may prove as large as £191 billion, according to a report for the government by Tim Breedon of Legal & General, a big insurer.
I said that I was leaving, and retreated to the Flag City Diner, down the street, where I ordered scrambled eggs and began drafting an e-mail to Litton.
LATE last year we ran a piece on the bank-shaped hole in Europe, the huge funding gap left by retreating banks that needs to be filled by non-bank lenders.
