Sentence examples for while retreating from inspiring English sources

He has aggressively reformed welfare and education while retreating on health service reform.

Laviolette wanted his Islanders to charge, but the team often became sloppy while retreating.

"It's Berezina," one leading Socialist said, referring to Napoleon's defeat while retreating from Russia.

Witnesses have said that Brown was shot while retreating or surrendering.

While retreating from Kuwait at the end of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi forces set fire to more than 700 of the country's 950 wells.

Since a police revolver holds only six shots, Mr. Duryea, while retreating, reloaded and shot Mr. Parris two more times, according to the official police account.

We joined in for a while, before retreating back onboard.

Palms and Rehab have never gone that way ("I like having something left to the imagination," says Mr. Pallas); Tao Beach did it for a while before retreating.

For a while, Norris retreated into herself.

After watching the students chip away for a while, I retreated to the shade.

The ice sheet advanced into the basin now occupied by Lake Erie, stopped for a while, and retreated to the north, leaving behind a moraine.