Sentence examples similar to retreating to stations from inspiring English sources

Police in Port Said retreated to their stations, fearing for their lives after weeks of violent clashes with supporters of the local football team, al-Masry.

Across the country, police officers were being killed by the dozens in mortar and car-bomb attacks; demoralized and outgunned, they retreated to fortified stations or simply stayed home.

The police deteriorated steadily and mixed corruption and abuses with a tendency to retreat to their stations whenever serious resistance occurred.

He hated the intrusive phone calls from newspapers and radio stations, often retreating to his country cottage for some peace and quiet.

On Wednesday heavily armed Taliban militants were patrolling villages, and the local police had retreated to their station houses in much of Buner, officials and residents said.

During the last spacewalk to use U.S. spacesuits in July, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano had to quickly retreat to the station's airlock when a leak inside his suit's plumbing enveloped his head in water.

South Vietnamese soldiers began retreating to various points around the headquarters of the ARVN 23rd Infantry Division, the Hoa Binh airfield, and the radio station.

What then about retreating to the periphery?

After 10 minutes probing the embankments around the dome, where substantial weeds were already growing, they retreated to the bus station with fixed expressions beneath their blond fringes.

Just as chaos forced Lenin to retreat to the halfway station of the "New Economic Policy," the dramatic collapse of the post-Soviet economy forced the modern-day reformers to back off.

As Mega Man defeats Enker and obtains his mirror buster ability, Wily retreats to a space station.