The attorney general, Bill Lockyer, a Democrat, accused the Bush administration of a "full-speed retreat from environmental protection".
Then there was the live Al Jazeera feed from Libya, where rebel forces were doing their best Road Warrior impressions, in this case of high-speed retreat.
The first is the greys' astonishing speed of retreat.
And since there is simply no plausible reform proposal on the right or left that doesn't involve somehow speeding that retreat, it seems like a problem that our politicians can't ever acknowledge as much, and feel the need not only to promise no change, ever, to anyone's existing plan, and to devise bad policies like the employer mandate to try to half-deliver on that promise.
Gradually they increase the speed of their retreat until suddenly the whole flock, a hundred and more strong, take off in a noisy clatter of wings.
A key question thus becomes whether the grounding line in this area could speed up its retreat and in particular, whether a "marine ice sheet instability," which is thought to exist in West Antarctica, might also exist here.
To speed up the retreat, he ordered plague-stricken men to be poisoned.
At that speed, the world retreats fast; entire landscapes dissolve into broad swaths of color.
Mouginot and his colleagues drew on 40 years of satellite data and aerial surveys to show that the enormous Zachariae Isstrom glacier began to recede three times faster from 2012, with its retreat speeding up by 125 metres per year every year until the most recent measurements in 2015.
The research by Mr. Bartholomaus seeks to identify factors that control the advance, retreat and speed of glaciers that end in the ocean.
Joseph's hair and garments, blowing sideways, suggest the speed with which he retreats from the naked woman, but the real actors in the scene are the roiled bed linens and especially the canopy's swirling drapes, which reach toward Joseph like surrogate arms.
