1. A brave retreat is a brave exploit. 

2. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. 

3. The enemy was / were forced to retreat.

4. I made a tactful retreat before they started arguing.

5. Our soldiers force the enemy to retreat.

6. The army beat a hasty retreat.

7. They knew when to attack and when to retreat.

8. The enemy was forced to retreat from the city.

9. He issued the command to retreat.

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10. I decided to beat a hasty retreat.

11. We covered his retreat with bursts of gunfire.

12. Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to retreat .

13. Retreat into acute fast.

14. Housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative — employment work.

15. The defeated army had to retreat hastily from the field of battle.

16. The army was forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses.

17. After several reverses the enemy was forced to retreat.

18. We went on retreat at/to a monastery in Wales.

19. They were attacked and forced to retreat.

20. You cannot retreat from your responsibility in this affair.

21. They cut off the enemy's retreat.

22. The enemy was now in retreat.

23. Spicer beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me.

24. Eventually the police forced the crowd into retreat.

25. They were forced to retreat back over the frontier.

26. Enemy soldiers are now in retreat.

27. The French, suddenly outnumbered, were forced to retreat.

28. They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.

29. In military parlance this is known as a fast retreat.

30. To learn to be just and constant, not just is sui Hui, not constant retreat.

1. I made a tactful retreat before they started arguing.

2. The army beat a hasty retreat.

3. They knew when to attack and when to retreat.

4. I decided to beat a hasty retreat.

5. They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.

6. Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to retreat .

7. Housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative — employment work.

8. In military parlance this is known as a fast retreat.

9. The defeated army had to retreat hastily from the field of battle.

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10. The army was forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses.

11. After several reverses the enemy was forced to retreat.

12. You cannot retreat from your responsibility in this affair.

13. The general ordered the bugler to sound the retreat.

14. There is every sign to show that the enemy will retreat.

15. They decided to retreat lest they would be between two fires.

16. Confronted by the angry strikers, the police had to retreat.

17. The soldiers were ordered to retreat to safer positions behind the lines.

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31. He commanded his men to retreat.

32. The bugler sounded the retreat .

33. He took part in the retreat from Paris.

34. Fire fighters had to retreat from the fierce heat.

35. I spent three weeks on retreat in Scotland.

36. Our troops cut off the enemy's retreat.

37. He lives in a quiet retreat.

38. The army was in full retreat .

39. They spent a week in retreat.

40. The general ordered the bugler to sound the retreat.

41. The army was ordered to retreat.

42. He spent yesterday hidden away in his country retreat.

43. Is watching television a retreat from reality?

44. She plans to use it as a winter retreat.

45. The rebel forces are in full retreat .

46. The captain instructed the soldiers to retreat.

47. I believe people should live in houses that allow them to retreat from the harsh realities of life.

48. It was not a conscious choice to retreat from public life.

49. Cockburn decided it was time to beat a hasty retreat.

50. We saw the rain and made a hasty retreat into the bar.

51. In June 1942(), the British 8th Army was in full retreat.

52. The minister made an undignified retreat from his earlier position.

53. The bugle tooted retreat.

54. Shell Cottage provides the perfect retreat from the hustle and bustle of London.

55. She goes on a spiritual retreat for two weeks every summer.

56. Ten thousand years ago the ice began its retreat from Scotland.

57. She likes to retreat to the country to relax at the weekend.

58. He told them not to retreat in the face of opposition from the public.

59. He could not retreat from his responsibility in this accident.

60. The Senator made an embarrassing retreat from his earlier position.

61. There is every sign to show that the enemy will retreat.

62. They decided to retreat lest they would be between two fires.

63. His whole family was castled up in at our country retreat.

64. On the eastern front the army was in full retreat.

65. When we saw the police arriving we beat a hasty retreat.

66. After the noise of the city he was glad to retreat to his hotel room.

67. He went into retreat at his country home to escape the attention of the media.

68. Yesterday'svote itself was a retreat from an earlier fallback position.

69. Want a quiet country retreat for your weekend break? Then look no further!

70. He went into retreat and tried to resolve the conflicts within himself.

71. Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.

72. The invading troops began to retreat after suffering heavy casualties.

73. We succeeded in cutting off the enemy's line of retreat.

74. He needed a way to retreat with his dignity intact.

75. Confronted by the angry strikers(/retreat.html), the police had to retreat.

76. The soldiers were ordered to retreat to safer positions behind the lines.

77. The poacher beat a hasty retreat when he saw the police coming.

78. I saw my aunt coming and beat a hasty retreat .

79. The professor's speech marked/signalled a retreat from his usual extreme views.

80. The soldiers had to retreat when they were beaten in battle.

81. The President's remarks appear to signal that there will be no retreat from his position.

82. Lieutenant Peterson shouted the order to retreat.

83. I would rather die than retreat.

84. Club Med is the renowned retreat for lustful yuppies.

85. Then retreat along the trail. Mission accomplished.

86. Thoreau begins his quest with a retreat from society.

87. But we should not retreat into our inner selves.

88. The tiny cabin offered no opportunity for retreat.

89. The retreat gives me a kind of spiritual nourishment.

90. Their face-off on July 1 was a disastrous retreat.

91. Excellence becomes a code word for retreat from equity.

92. And I, for one will always remember that retreat.

93. The retreat was held in a no-frills hotel about thirty miles from the corporate headquarters.

94. But as an obstruction to the Federal retreat, the fight amounted to nothing.

95. Like other Whole Being participants, Roujansky said she relishes the inner peace fostered by the retreat.

96. You must never allow yourself to be crowded out, neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary.

97. He made this announcement at the Board of Trustees' annual retreat.

98. In a retreat, House leaders proposed allowing employees to return to work with pay while budget talks proceed.

99. A flat which had seemed to offer stimulus, satisfaction,(http://) retreat and self-sufficiency dwindled overnight into just somewhere to live.

100. She even considered a discreet retreat to her own lair, but recognised that she lacked such disinterested nobility.

101. Pop art directly challenged what was increasingly seen as abstract art's esoteric retreat from the world.

102. Any females which are not ripe will either stay away or beat a hasty retreat.

103. By the end of the 1980s central economic planning was in retreat, even in its heartland.

104. The overwhelming impression of Soul is of a science in retreat, forced to admit the inadequacy of its materialism.

105. Bill and his men would retreat to the rhododendron bushes and radio to the sniper teams on the roof.

106. But these sheep weren't posing for a rural getaway or a pastoral retreat.

107. Objects and fantasy are then used not as a means of venturing out, but to beat a retreat.

108. It was on one such retreat that he originally encouraged the Mac team to consider themselves pirates.

109. In the 1960s she and husband Harry bought a Whitby cottage as a weekend retreat.

110. Eventually the scarp will retreat from the original position of faulting and it may be buried by sediment.

111. As a retreat conductor, preacher and speaker for religious communities in the Assembly and the Synod he had few rivals.

112. At some later date, a slight glacial retreat would weaken the dam wall and its subsequent collapse would prove catastrophic.

113. For as long as they had known each other it had been their nest, their retreat, their beautiful private world.

114. I ordered our troops to retreat and disappear like burning grass in the dry season.

115. She would install Hannah in front of the television and retreat to another room.

116. Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable, then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat.

117. He went to work on the President, telling him that to retreat now would be to accept humiliating defeat.

118. The consultants presented two alternatives, based on discussions at the last retreat.

119. On 24 September he went into retreat at Mirfield in Yorkshire, where once he thought of becoming a monk.

120. They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.

121. It was not a conscious choice to retreat from public life into a private world.

122. It was once a retreat for the monks of the Celtic Church.

123. The decade's retreat from the cutting edge is certainly in evidence.

124. This move would either have won material or force Black to retreat into a hopelessly passive position.

125. Wounded men all round him tried to get up and retreat, but only brought eruptions of machine gun fire.

126. Her hands held the back of his neck, then loosened, and she turned on to her stomach but not in retreat.

127. At that time, Rommel was in retreat and the Eighth Army expected to enter the major port of Benghazi any day.

128. The Wall Street retreat was also nudged by fears throughout the day stirred by the continued budget impasse.

129. Did he not choose to retreat when his old enemy Rennenkampf was advancing?

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130. It ended with heavy losses to the enemy and, finally, their retreat.

131. She would heed their call and they would immediately retreat into sudden apathy.

132. This caused his further retreat to a cave on Mount Kolzim.

133. He was too good at games for that, too central a figure among us to retreat into himself.

134. Why such a startling retreat from the nearly unanimous support for the free processing zone 18 months ago?

135. The Sandinistas were forced into a temporary retreat but returned later with reinforcements to do battle in the streets.

136. Then, thanking him, I beat a hasty retreat to the sacristy door and knocked.

137. The hot wind blows a storm of dust and leaves, and the women retreat into their houses.

138. More significant for Scandinavia was its retreat in 1950 back to limited and relatively non-controversial sectoral coordination at the regional level.

139. The prayer opposite was composed last year by deacons on retreat before they were ordained priests and missionaries.

140. Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.

141. Standing aside can allow a choice of entry and retreat as desired.

142. The dignity of the law has met the volatility of Nature and has been forced to retreat.

143. He informed us that our brigade was to be the rear guard of the army, which was in full retreat.

144. Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes, to block it out, to let me retreat into sleep.

145. But the playroom is to be absorbed into the retreat and conference centre next year.

146. Admit temporary defeat with good grace, retreat, reconsider and wait.

147. Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.

148. Most of the Others were too paralyzed with fright to move; but some began a slow, stumbling retreat.

149. No, there had always been routes through from Earth into the Dominions, other than that at the Retreat.

150. Incidentally, after 18 ... f4 the retraction 19 a3 could be more promising than Timman's retreat.

151. His body was arched as though he had been forced to retreat.

152. The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas, forcing the marchers into hasty retreat.

153. He announced his decision at the annual Board of Trustees' retreat on September 10.

154. Then, before she could decide whether to retreat and wait for the Empress to leave, a man murmured softly.

155. The retreat design was also congruent with the power styles of Tom Rice and the consultant.

156. There were times he would retreat to his attic room and not want to be disturbed.

157. To the Gaijin rear Jotan's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat.

158. If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion, then a tactical retreat was necessary.

159. A comic gives children the opportunity to retreat into their own world; it is a very private thing.

160. The retreat of Marxism has been paralleled by the ascendancy of the New Right.

161. But the family found great enjoyment at their new weekend retreat.

162. I didn't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches.

163. The cave continues but then suddenly falls to horrendous depths and a retreat must be made to the point of entry.

164. John Sitter writes: By the mid-century, retirement has hardened into retreat.

165. By March 31 Gamsakhurdia forces were said to be in retreat although railways and roads were still blocked.

166. Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site, people believed they could do it again, and did.

167. In 1443, the Hungarian army advanced into Serbia, and the Turks were forced to retreat.

168. Services are held regularly, and once a month prisoners are taken on a religious retreat nearby.

169. She wanted only to be free of this, for the lake to clear, so she could retreat to her task.

170. Their forced retreat, with a rope too short to reach the ground, took on epic proportions.

171. By the marriage cohorts of 1870 a decline in national marital fertility became apparent, unrelated to any major retreat from marriage.

172. This summer, he held a retreat in Laguna Beach for 14 people, all department heads.

173. He thought it likely that the Confederates would retreat before he could renew his attack the next day.

174. And shortly, in her armies' unremitting retreat, the great fortress of Przemysl was abandoned to siege.

175. Wagner, in retreat from pursuing creditors and political enemies, was one.

176. We do not have the right to find retreat in earnest indecision.

177. As it turned out, these ambitions proved only partly realizable in one retreat.

178. Pretty and earthy, she can be aggressive or retreat believably, and has some nice scenes with her extended family.

179. Preparations for a retreat on the referendum were evident at Labour's Brighton conference last week.

180. So far, the proponents have answered these questions by retreat into euphemism and advance into metaphor.

181. Thus, the more the mind seeks to pry into reality the farther does reality retreat from it.

182. It's for throwing at them as you retreat into the living room.

183. The slowdown in buying corresponds with a stock market retreat that cut 165 points off the Dow industrials on Tuesday and Wednesday.

184. They had survived the trials of imperial retreat, economic decline, and industrial conflict, and remained cohesive and intact.

185. The retreat of individuals to the private sector simply obscures the deep troubles of national education as a whole.

186. Before 1950, the laity had little opportunity to make the Exercises, which were typically given during a thirty-day silent retreat.

187. Beat a hasty retreat, that was what he would do.

188. Not just because of the extraordinary value it represents, but because of the unique qualities our auspicious holiday retreat has to offer.

189. She had already started to retreat into eating when she felt upset.

190. It is not enough for me to explore( ), to retreat graciously into the dust and floorboards of those exotic places.

191. Undaunted he would retreat, threading the twine between his fingers and thumb, before blindly pushing forward in a new direction.

192. Morrissey's retreat was probably due to a realisation that he couldn't control his own public persona.

193. News came in March that he had been captured and probably killed during the retreat from Teruel.

194. But then, instead of making a hasty retreat, they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions.

195. One approach was to read these young people the riot act and let them repent or retreat.

196. When challenged, he may give up easily and retreat to his own world.

197. Appointees interviewed repeated a familiar theme: They all loved their jobs but are beating a retreat without regret.

198. With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.

199. Padilla ordered his companions to retreat while he stayed on.

200. It's been near impossible for anymole to see him since November, when he went into retreat.

201. Hastily revising his plans for my career, he settled us into our Cape Cod retreat and went on the offensive.

202. Keep your paragraphs short and sweet: I have enclosed a brochure about our winter retreat.

203. We accept our responsibility not to retreat from interpreting the full meaning of the covenant in light of all of our precedents.

204. The part-time volunteers have been sounding retreat with the massed bands of the Light Division.

205. The idea is to retreat to the oasis whenever you can, thus reducing your overall exposure.

206. The advance and retreat of the last glaciation caused sea-level changes to take place there very recently, in geological terms.

207. It would be for her a retreat, a spiritual renewal.

208. Worse, in the short term, would be the economic dislocation caused by the retreat from today's multilateral trading system.

209. It had recently withdrawn the ice-breaker Endurance, generally taken as a clear sign of retreat.

210. During the day they retreat into shallow burrows a few centimetres below the ground.

211. Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.

212. He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me approaching, but it was not hasty enough.

213. Inpart, this retreat reflected a natural contraction in foreign policy concerns by a number of members.

214. Five years later, the new albums represent neither an expansion nor a retreat but a hesitant reluctance to set out anew.

215. Cut loose from its eyes suddenly, the mind will rear up , spin, retreat.

216. Houston and his small force of Texans camped on the first night of their retreat from Gonzales.

217. As night fell the Empire army was in full retreat with wolf riders snapping at their heels.

218. The group has a regular daily attendance of 22 youngsters, and currently meets at St Joseph's Retreat.

219. During a time of meditation in that retreat,() he wrote a note which survived.

220. Refereee Kevin Breen ordered a Chester free kick to be retaken after 35 minutes when Coughlin failed to retreat 10 yards.

221. Here dear Anderson had built a retreat for her bantams - there was no man kinder or more trustworthy.

222. Frim successful persuasion, advance and retreat by easy stages.

223. With more participants joining this years retreat, I was hardly lacking in any help or advice and I had no cause to be disappointed in my expectations.

224. Original program reduces an area with centrosphere and talk with the developing zone only, the area of 80% above have not go back farmer and retreat agrarian.

225. If the worst comes to the worst", Becky thought, "my retreat is secure; and I have a right-hand seat in the barouche.

226. The army had been compelled to retreat from Vilna owing to various complex considerations of state, of policy, and tactics.

227. Near Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the Sun Meadow resort is another cold-climate nudist retreat with ample side attractions.

228. Mr. Obama and his family will spend the next week on vacation, at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland and on the Atlantic resort island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

229. The jet stream will retreat poleward, and rain-bearing storms that travel along the jet will have more moisture to precipitate out, since more water vapor can evaporate into a warmer atmosphere.

230. Most news organizations are in retreat, shuttering bureaus and laying off journalists. But the former "Red China News Agency" doesn't need to worry about the inconvenience of turning a profit.

231. The couple are expected to spend ten days there and are due to fly out by private jet in mid-May before being taken by helicopter from the mainland to the tropical retreat.

232. Scarabeo Stone Camp, a tented retreat set amid the desert highlands of Morocco, is a vanisher's paradise.

233. An Indian glaciologist, Syed Iqbal Hasnain, now at the Stimson Center in Washington, told me that most Himalayan glaciers are in retreat for three reasons.

234. The campers typically don't remember details of the retreat, says Caitlin Morgan, the gerontologist and social worker who directs the camp. But the experience significantly lifts their mood.

235. The St. Regis is a luxury retreat on a generous stretch of beach arguably among the better stretches of sin Asia, comparable to Phuket or Bali, ideal for walks, sun bathing swimming.

236. Cover is of high importance to achieve tactical advantages. Suppressive fire will button the enemy and they hardly will shoot back or have any chance to retreat without high casualties.

237. They went there to have a nice, you know, retreat from all the hubbub of the capital city of Cuzco.

238. She envisions a time when the writing and travel will not preoccupy her so and she can retreat on a piece of land and create her own garden, raising her own food.

239. The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible discharge of musketry.

240. A static state balance appearance of the Laizhou gulf is: the Zhaoyuan will also retreat 228 m, the boundary river mouth retreat larger, is 678 m, the Shihuzui northeast segment will silt up 593 m.

241. Higher-end hotels there include Thambapanni Retreat (www.thambapanni.biz), which features four-poster beds, yoga and an ayurvedic spa.

242. Arguably the most significant advance of the GUI menu was this retreat from the hierarchical form into monocline grouping.

243. Every night, I retreat to my lonely bedsit,() and sit and do some life doing.

244. This may explain why there is so little visible security at Putin's dacha, Novo-Ogarevo, the grand Russian presidential retreat set inside a birch- and fir-forested compound west of Moscow.

245. Some economists said it was a sign that the hardliners were in retreat and the ECB was becoming more dovish.

246. When the lower space needs to be increased, the internal frame is lifted upwards and then moved backwards, and a check bar arranged on the supporting frame plays the action of stopping the retreat.

247. Among them, Gold Fields is also deep into the 13 companies the only retreat into the "three boards", that is, the charged' affaires transfer of shares in the market.

248. Alternatively, you may be on vacation or a business trip over the weekend of July 6-7 and visit a theme park or go on a retreat or to a special seminar, convention, or a tradeshow.

249. This fibreglass ball chair is a cheap way to add a private retreat to the family home: if you swivel it away from the infant mayhem in your living room you are cocooned in a womb-within-a-room.

250. Like Darwin, Florence Nightingale could focus ruthlessly on her work because of the invalidism which allowed her to retreat from social life.