Sentence examples for retreating safely from inspiring English sources

But there is a less flattering interpretation of those words which sees the artist retreating safely within the bounds of his or her capacity.

He chugged down the first-base line Mirabelli has a plumber's build and rounded the bag widely, as if imagining a double, before retreating safely to first.

He chugged down the first-base line — Mirabelli has a plumber's build — and rounded the bag widely, as if imagining a double, before retreating safely to first.

I think essentially we have no privacy, or we have fewer and fewer areas we can retreat safely into".

The Americans retreated safely to the C.I.A. annex, where over the next 90 minutes they came under sporadic small-arms fire and rocket-propelled-grenade attacks.

Florida's ill-conceived rejection of several hundred years of common-law precedent — the duty to retreat safely rather than to resort to the use of deadly force — has been revealed for its sheer idiocy.

Another member of the squad offered a starkly different version of events, under which Mr. Kerrey ordered the killing of the civilians because he felt it was the only way for his men to retreat safely.

The rest of the games will muddle along in that gray area between appropriate recognition and jingoism — you can vote on where sports should fall in a USA Today poll — and athletes will chime in on Twitter with varying perspective levels until the two worlds can retreat safely back to their own corners.

In 2005, Florida passed the Stand Your Ground law, an extension of the so-called castle doctrine, exonerating from prosecution citizens who use deadly force when confronted by an assailant, even if they could have retreated safely; Stand Your Ground laws expand that protection outside the home to any place that an individual "has a right to be".

If they are correct, that is the spot where, on Oct. 18, 1776, in a confrontation known as the Battle of Pelham or the Battle of Pell's Point, Col. John Glover and his troops fought from behind the wall and held off a British attack long enough to allow George Washington and his soldiers to retreat safely to White Plains.

"He was put in a position from which he couldn't retreat safely.