Sentence examples for whose retreat from inspiring English sources

Finally, I reached the sign for Sólheimajökull, the glacier whose retreat Oddur Sigurdsson had described to me.

She will appear as Hermia, one of the four lovers whose retreat to the Athenian woods propels the action of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".

In 1980, Edward Clark won just over one per cent of the popular vote; his running mate was David Koch, one of the Koch brothers, whose retreat from Presidential politics has been one of the year's big political surprises.

Some two dozen named glaciers and a number of smaller patches of permanent ice and snow radiate from the broad summit, including Nisqually Glacier, whose retreat and advance over the last 150 years has helped scientists determine patterns in the Earth's climate.

The images of weary soldiers on the frontline, confident they are within hours of the total liberation of the city, offer a brief respite for the Iraqi army, whose retreat seven months earlier in the face of an offensive by a few hundred Isis militants sparked derision.

One wonders how Holland knows that Tiberius was a "man of duty" whose retreat to the island of Capri should not be seen as an "abdication", and why he insists so firmly that this spoiled rich man "despised himself" for the orgies that he organised while absent from Rome.

To no avail; and when the end came at last, on January 19th, few were surprised or sorry".I know when it's time to make a 'strategic retreat'," said Mr Perry, referring to Sam Houston, the military leader of the Texas revolution, whose strategic retreat in 1836 drew the Mexicans north.

And in a country spanning an eighth of the world's land mass and 6.5m square miles, to whose rural retreat is Prince Andrei conveyed?

Or would they sag, much as the careers of writers with a genetic inheritance who found success young and whose only retreat was self-parody?

Daly, a 19-year-old centre, and the 20-year-old flanker Launchbury, whose only retreat from the battles of the breakdown was to have his bloodied head bandaged, celebrated with their mates at the end, more in relief than exultation.

She was luminous (if too pretty) playing opposite Orson Welles in Jane Eyre (1944), and followed it with another Du Maurier heroine, a countess whose country retreat in Cornwall harbours a pirate with whom she falls in love and accompanies on an escapade.