Sentence examples for steady retreating from inspiring English sources

The type of glacier (continental or maritime), and how the glacier is behaving (advancing, steady, retreating) can also cause different river behaviors.

After a near two hour set, with a three song encore that included "Hornets, Hornets," "Stuck Between Stations," and the epic show closer "Killer Parties," The Hold Steady retreated to the wings of the stage as heroes and left the crowd begging for more.

One is the slow but steady retreat by Japan as Southeast Asia's largest investor and financier.

In recent weeks, Mr. Rehn has signaled a slow but steady retreat from these austerity measures and acknowledged that unemployment has reached unacceptable levels.

The Africans, the Caribbean nations and the Pacific islanders are caught in the middle, but the world still has lots to gain from beet's steady retreat.

These provisions should help reverse what, in recent days, has been Cyprus's steady retreat into a surreal pre-modern economy dominated by cash.

She said a difficult process of negotiation with the United Nations over the last four years has been "a steady retreat" from the ideal of an impartial international tribunal.

The shelving of the bill is another step in a steady retreat by the Cameron government from market ideology in HE.

And the holiday's demise as a no-shopping interlude is the culmination of a steady retreat from pervasive blue laws that once banned shopping not only on Thanksgiving and other major holidays but also on Sundays.

The current fight is hardly over, yet the steady retreat of House Republicans since late last week, when they first proposed a short-term increase in the debt limit without policy strings, suggests that Mr. Obama's big gamble could be paying off.

The steady retreat of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean — caused largely by global warming — has opened up an inaccessible part of the world to shipping and potentially vast deposits of oil, natural gas and mineral resources.