Sentence examples for retrieve the situation from inspiring English sources

It would take decades to retrieve the situation.

The ball squirted away from him and he jumped into a tackle to retrieve the situation.

It took the guile of Honecker and the machinations of the European security conference in Helsinki in 1975 to retrieve the situation.

"We were able to retrieve the situation, that's the most important thing," said Levein, who lost his glasses while celebrating the winner.

Acting as a counterweight to her volatile, irascible husband, she was able to step in when he had stormed out of sessions and retrieve the situation.

But Sky also defended the military and the senior commanders she worked with, who, she said, did everything they could to retrieve the situation.

After a ghastly pause, he stammers and makes a deadpan joke, barely retrieving the situation.

When the Swedish king was killed, however, Bernhard assumed command of his army, retrieved the situation along the line, and captured the entire imperial artillery.

There have been instances at the higher command level too where the Gunners have retrieved the situation and have invariably fulfilled the assigned tasks most admirably.

After all, if the administration had any real hope of retrieving the situation in Iraq, officials would be making an all-out effort to get the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to start delivering on some of those benchmarks, perhaps using the threat that Congress would cut off funds otherwise.

In a highly significant intervention over Britain's future, Howe laments the "new, almost farcical" level of debate over Europe in the Tory party, and says that Labour and the Liberal Democrats may need to bear the burden of retrieving the situation.