Sentence examples for mean retreat from inspiring English sources

LOS ANGELES — For Lee Saunders, the newly elected president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, defeat does not mean retreat.

You don't want three fingers in the air to mean "retreat", because that has little correlation.

Why does taking a principled stance mean retreating from Republican politics?

If pro-family-planning forces were willing to de-couple abortion from family planning, they could improve maternal health care and reduce infant mortality -- but that would mean retreating a bit on abortion services.

Healing means retreating back into herself, her soul made elusive once again.

Since he took command last summer, the leader of international forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, has directed foreign troops to avoid harming civilians even if it means retreating in some instances.

We would ignore the papers and the polls, we would have faith in the possibility that something good might actually happen, and if it meant retreating into a fanatical little bubble, then that was fine.

This will not mean a retreat of all Western ideas.

That doesn't mean a retreat; it doesn't mean a backdown.

Those who led the leave campaign insisted that Brexit would not mean a retreat from the world.

But must this mean a retreat to the Lib Dem comfort zone, sacrificing the party's commitment to pluralism and new politics?