Sentence examples for potential retreat from inspiring English sources

Mississippi River communities scrambling Tuesday to fend off the rain-engorged waterway got discouraging news: More rains looming across much of the nation's midsection threatened to slow the potential retreat of the river.

The battle for Mosul will be the toughest test yet for Iraqi forces, who are converging on the city alongside Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers, Sunni tribal fighters, and Shia militias tasked with blocking a potential retreat for the militants into the eastern desert of Syria.

The report says the group's central command in Iraq and Syria sees Libya as the best opportunity to expand its so-called caliphate, viewing the country as "a potential retreat and operational zone for Isil (Isis) fighters unable to reach the Middle East".

WASHINGTON -- The potential Republican retreat from a hard-line stance on extending the payroll tax cut comes as GOP leaders have been quietly urging their Tea Party members to be less extreme.

Kolasin's year-around mountain retreat potential was first exploited under Tito.

The road to Kabul, a potential point of retreat, was blocked and was targeted by American bombers.

Some members of the drug policy reform community are meeting reports of a potential drug war retreat with skepticism.

But he turned his back on fame and millions of dollars in potential endorsements and retreated from the world, renouncing the championship in 1975.

Add the potential impact of a retreat from growth upon the universe of derivatives and it becomes evident why the world's central bankers are not willing to contemplate an exit from a market design predicated upon growth.

In 1989, Lindsay Doran, the new president of production company Mirage Enterprises, was on a company retreat brainstorming potential film ideas when she suggested the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility to her colleagues.

Marion Hammer similarly asserts that pre-Stand Your Ground law imposed a duty to retreat on potential rape victims: "It required her to try to get away and run and be chased down by the perpetrator before she could then use force to protect herself".