All around us, tired children have retreated onto laps.
In October, Mr. Voisin recalled, he was entertaining clients on a boat in Savannah, Ga., and became so weary of small talk that he retreated onto the deck.
Van der Westhuizen lbw b Grundy 6 (South Africa 14-3) Van der Westhuizen retreats onto the back foot, swishes her bat across the line and ball thumps pad about six inches in front of the stumps, as plumb as you like.
Zuydcoote is a beach surburban to Dunkirk, and the weekend in question is the epochal Saturday and Sunday in May, 1940, when the British Army retreated onto Zuydcoote's sands and out into the Channel and waited for the miracle of the boats from home.
The findings may also explain why harbor seal populations are declining in fjords whose glaciers have retreated onto land: Without the acoustic camouflage provided by the bubble-induced din, the seals may have a harder time evading their main predator, the killer whale. .
The ferocity of Lindwall's bouncer often prompted opposing batsmen to retreat onto the back foot even before he had released the ball.
Two, the really scary part about the grounding lines' inland migration is that it's not even moving inland -- there is no land here for the glacier to retreat onto.
In the subsequent battles and withdrawals during the period of November 26 to December 2, 1950, although the US Eighth Army managed to avoid being surrounded by Chinese forces, the Chinese 13th Army were still able to inflict heavy losses onto the retreating UN forces which had lost all cohesion.
My property is essentially a slightly slanted rock formation onto which a retreating glacier reluctantly dribbled some topsoil and, a few thousand years later, some incurable optimist built a farmhouse.
Yet, having landed blows both physical and psychological, Ali came out for the second and, defying all conventional wisdom, retreated to the ropes, inviting Foreman onto him.
