The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the meeting, said American negotiators proposed that Russia offer Colonel Qaddafi a secure retreat to a country he considered safe, and that the Russian side was skeptical that he could be persuaded.
The Tower of London was extended to form a concentric fortress with extensive living quarters, although Henry primarily used the castle as a secure retreat in the event of war or civil strife.
In the years following Gaveston's death, however, civil conflict in England rarely seemed far away, and it is currently believed that Thomas probably intended to create a secure retreat, a safe distance away from Edward's forces in the south.
For example, he was given $159,000 in 1976 to secure a retreat at the Montreal Olympics that was deemed remote enough to lessen the chances of doping checks.
Washington ordered him to collect, as many as possible, the scattered troops who came his way, and employ them according to his discretion to secure the retreat of the army.
The Marshal deployed two or three relatively unscathed battalions to cover the reorganisation of his forces and secure their retreat, but Graham had also managed to call his exhausted men to order and he brought them, with Duncan's artillery, against Victor's new position.
In vogue in 1999 (Kosovo, when the mere threat of them was enough to secure Slobodan Milosevic's retreat), 2003 (Iraq, when we re-discovered why we had been so reluctant) and 2011 (Libya, when we thought we could do it from the air), and now back as something we are definitely not going to do (again) in Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan.
It was during the negotiations to purchase the truce necessary to secure the Roman retreat to the wall that the first recorded utterance, attributable with any reasonable degree of confidence, to a native of Scotland was made.
In my previous article on what schools can learn from playgrounds, I suggest that the playgrounds' inclusion of hidden spaces, like tunnels, allow children the sensation of solitude, a secure place to "retreat from the world and let their imaginations run wild".
Then they'd retreat, quietly secure that their very holiness would shut down the line of questioning.
