Sentence examples for we were retreating from inspiring English sources

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If we were retreating from the web, probably not.

I knew our battle with death can never be won, but I had a niggling unease that we were retreating prematurely.

In that sense, Francesca and I never felt we were retreating from the so-called "real world" but engaging with it more deeply: all sorts of people – troubled forces veterans, ex-offenders, victims of abuse, sex workers and so on – came to live with us and gave us insights into what life can really be like.

At the beginning we were retreating and now we're attacking, destroying the Fascists.

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We're retreating from planetary cooperation.

"We are retreating back a little bit to the original meaning behind the day".

"We are retreating from Afghanistan and Iraq, not anticipating the vacuum that would be left behind and the potential that creates for radicalism," he said.

"We're retreating into the world of the self," Mr. Khan said, "and it sometimes seems that technology is our only form of communication.

"I'm always a bit amused, perplexed, by people who say we're retreating from the world," he continued.

"Elites have to understand that we're retreating, in a way, to a modern-day Versailles, and that road leads to ruin".

If that's a retreat, then we're retreating every day around here". - Refuse admission to minors who appear to be under the influence of alcohol and make available to the city a log of all incidents.

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