Sentence examples for steadily retreating from inspiring English sources

Labour, which has been steadily retreating from commitments to spend more, tried to stress austerity.

The birds have gone from a number of counties where once they could be heard and are steadily retreating to England's south-east corner, behind a line drawn roughly from the Wash to the Solent.

I draped myself with a length of translucent crepe and fashioned, from wrought iron and canvas straps, a backpack-like apparatus that kept a bunch of plastic grapes steadily retreating from my grasp, like a carrot before a horse.

Knausgaard's world is one in which the adventure of the ordinary — the inexhaustibility of the ordinary as a child once experienced it ("the taste of salt that could fill your summer days to saturation") — is steadily retreating; in which things and objects and sensations are pacing toward meaninglessness.

In response to a large reduction in littoral drift, shorelines in the centre of the system are steadily retreating, with some embayment shorelines being closer to the seawall in 2005 than they were pre-construction.

The world is steadily retreating from dependence on asbestos.

But he has steadily retreated in the face of pressure from the street.

Larsen B steadily retreated until February March 2002, when it too collapsed and disintegrated.

But he has steadily retreated, sometimes in the face of political opposition, sometimes on his own.

The major indexes shot up initially but steadily retreated as investors focused on domestic matters.

Lauded the world over – his tour to Russia in 1957 is still remembered fondly by Vladimir Ashkenazy and by everyone else who packed out the concert halls to hear him – Gould none the less seemed to steadily retreat from public view.