Sentence examples for on retreating from inspiring English sources

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By the third game he insisted on retreating to a tiny back room, where he could think.

A video posted on YouTube appears to show riot police advancing on retreating protesters – unarmed but hurling rocks – then shooting directly at them.

The Sherrod affair shows that the right keeps on attacking, even when it is wrong, and the left keeps on retreating, even when it is right.

Other reconstructions were based on retreating glaciers, or water temperatures in boreholes, or core sunk into ice sheets – but they too reproduce a hockey stick shape.

On at least one occasion, he has linked his faith with the decision to halt the attacks on retreating Iraqi Republican Guard units in the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf.

The missing page carried an article about a report in The New Yorker magazine describing a 1991 investigation of Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey over an attack on retreating Iraqi forces after a cease-fire in the Gulf war.

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Keeping the pressure on the retreating Germans on 25 August, Le Correspondence, Petreville and Malhortie were captured.

The temperature distribution on the advancing side and on the retreating side differed, and stress levels were higher on the retreating side.

6. 'White plumage on the back is visible on the retreating bird as it begins to gain altitude.

Shares of Borders, which also jumped on Monday, retreated 8 percent on Tuesday, to $1.28.

He says: "I'm not retreating on what I said.

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