Sentence examples for retreated towards from inspiring English sources

John Terry's view Terry's camp have suggested that the centre-half only became aware that Ferdinand believed he had been the subject of racial abuse when Cole shouted to the England captain as he retreated towards the halfway line following the concession of the free‑kick.

David Luiz and Lampard became embroiled in an argument in the middle of the pitch as they retreated towards the changing rooms; the finger-jabbing continuing until they approached the tunnel, where Petr Cech and Yossi Benayoun shepherded them away from each other.

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The militants are reported to have retreated towards the city centre which is now quiet, a BBC correspondent says.

But Cardiff handed Posh the equaliser when Cowie lost possession as he retreated towards his own box.

The rebels, who declared independence in Donetsk and Luhansk in April, retreated towards the city of Donetsk last week after a government siege of their symbolic stronghold, Sloviansk.

As well as imposing capital controls, countries might retreat towards autarky, by raising retaliatory tariffs.

The country might retreat towards radicalisation and polarisation, in a geopolitical climate much more dangerous than that of the 1990s.

French resistance had virtually collapsed and the British army, retreating towards Dunkirk, seemed to be doomed to destruction.

Their response is anger – and retreat towards national forms of capitalism that can only tear the world apart.

The Cantata itself – Honegger's last work, composed when he was terminally ill – glances longingly and tenderly at ideas of new beginnings before gradually retreating towards its final, spiritually ambiguous silence.