Sentence examples for temporary retreat from inspiring English sources

But that may be merely a temporary retreat.

Shorn of their standard-bearer, China's leftists seem in at least temporary retreat.

"It is not a temporary retreat," Mr Miller told Russia's Itogi magazine this week.

I decline to join in what I hope will prove to be a temporary retreat.

Nature functions not as a homecoming but as a temporary retreat.

Or one can do as we did, and beat a temporary retreat.

The abbey welcomes people for temporary retreats.

The aim to partly privatize retirement (through individual investment accounts), education (through vouchers) and welfare (through faith-based charities) has proceeded gradually, and with some temporary retreats, but no one close to Bush doubts that it is a sustained crusade.

During their temporary retreats to the city in the midst of their Atlantic wanderings, such men availed themselves of its presses to publish their manifestos and memoirs.

But the clear intent was to make the massive intrusion into the private sector temporary and to retreat as quickly as possible.

"Pinochet, for all intents and purposes," Reeve said, "has called off the dog". Not noted for a rollicking sense of humor, the Chilean dictator, said Reeve, "has made a joke of the whole thing," a fact that is taken by the Chilean actors as at least a temporary indication of retreat.