Sentence examples for retreated here from inspiring English sources

Like many other modern artists after the first world war, he retreated here to a more stable sense of space.

He could understand that people should have retreated here and fenced themselves in with miles and miles of silence.

Ahmad Shah Massoud, the former leader of the alliance, expanded them after alliance forces retreated here in 1996.

Mr. Chen faces a legislature still dominated by the Nationalists, who have ruled firmly since Chiang Kai-shek retreated here from the Communist-dominated mainland in 1949.

As Alex McMurray, of the Tin Men, tells it, a bunch of the skunked musicians retreated here to lick their wounds.

When the Nationalists retreated here from the mainland at the end of China's civil war in 1949, they did not intend to stay long.

The businessmen who retreat here to unwind know that the shining stars are emblems of the club's young hostesses.

I usually retreat here at lunch and go through emails and papers and things that I have to answer before, you know, time has run out in Europe.

The party governed Taiwan for decades after retreating here in 1949 after its loss to the Communists in the Chinese civil war.

ON a wintry weekend in February, when the nuns held a "come and see" retreat here for young women who are considering joining the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, four women came.

After retreating here and fighting Mr. Hun Sen well into the 1990s, Khmer Rouge veterans today credit the prime minister with orchestrating peace, building roads and schools, and helping turn Anlong Veng, once shrouded in jungle and studded with land mines, into a moderately prosperous town.