Sentence examples for world retreated from inspiring English sources

After the World Cup, the rugby world retreated again into the Afrikaner laager, and alienated new-found black supporters," Mr Matshiqi says.

Subsequently, until about 1940, glaciers around the world retreated as the climate warmed substantially.

At that speed, the world retreats fast; entire landscapes dissolve into broad swaths of color.

A failure to act after the Assad regime has crossed that red line would be akin to the world retreating and setting a new, weaker standard without a fight.

Unilateralism would lead to a divided world, retreating from international cooperation and economic globalization, which is what the fanatics want.

The clock-operated world retreats.

As the offline world retreats, the online businesses will get another boost.

We have tried to understand how athletically gifted sisters born 15 months apart could each rise to No. 1 in the world, retreat to deal with injuries and outside interests, then return to dominate the sport today.

"We cannot just ignore the real world, retreat into America and pop out again in a few years," says one of the QDR's authors.Since a conservative QDR was predictable, Congress commissioned a national defence panel to report on it in December.

I've often spoken to people who have said something like, I wish I could just hit Pause on my life and the world, retreat and work on myself until I have some confidence, then press Play and rejoin life and be able to do the things I've wanted to do.

We see a woman named Lola turn from a half-starved skeletal statue to a lively flapper, circa 1926, and then we see her too -- horrified, perhaps, at the sense of her own altered body in a drastically altered world -- retreat to her former condition of living death.