Sentence examples for permanent retreat from inspiring English sources

From that day forward fossil fuels go into permanent retreat.

They will have no credible plans and will be in an angry but permanent retreat.

Despite the crisis, there is little sense of a permanent retreat from wheat in Nigeria.

RHODE ISLAND WHITE This Bird comes with all the dressing necessary for your permanent retreat from urban society.

David Puttnam writes: Brian Duffy was far more than a gifted photographer; he was a uniquely constructive "social anarchist" who, through sheer force of personality, helped push the stultifying conservatism of the 1950s into permanent retreat.

With the Arctic warming twice as fast as any other part of the earth, and with the ice seemingly in permanent retreat, the bears have been left stranded on land desperately seeking other things to eat.

When his wife, Charlotte, died of a lingering illness in 1943, in the midst of World War II, Shaw, frail and feeling the effects of wartime privations, made permanent his retreat from his London apartment to his country home at Ayot St. Lawrence, a Hertfordshire village in which he had lived since 1906.

Had they not coincided with national bankruptcy, civil unrest, grievous public suffering and pleas from Greek archeologists for help in saving their country's classical heritage from ruin, current efforts to transform Leigh-Fermor's Peloponnese home into a permanent writers' retreat might have looked quite normal, proportionate and not even a curious way to celebrate a celebrated nomad.

Founded in 1869 by a group of ministers seeking a permanent seaside retreat, the Camp Meeting Association bought its first six acres here as a "site to assemble from year to year and enjoy our summer rest in bathing, fishing, worshiping or sauntering socially along the shore," according to the writings of the Rev. Ellwood Stokes, a founding member.

It can regard becoming number two as another sign that of permanent decline and retreat from international leadership.

The liberal class...can no longer influence a society in a state of permanent war and retreats into its sheltered enclaves, where its members can continue to worship itself.