1. The government is retreating from its promises.

2. The flood waters are slowly retreating.

3. He watched her retreating figure.

4. He has a retreating chin.

5. Gladys Brown glowered at Meryl's slender retreating back.

6. As a result, ice caps are retreating.

7. Racal appears to be retreating from the market.

8. But males retreating to the backwoods to beat their chests and nurture each other is not a healthy solution.

9. Friends of the Earth accused the government of retreating from a firmly-stated commitment to identify contaminated land.

10. Lindsey stifled a sigh as she watched his retreating figure.

11. The administration is retreating from its goal of buying 75 Stealth bombers.

12. His pulse was a distant polka retreating into the unknown.

13. Below the old Church at Battersea the retreating flood had left exposed a wide shelf of mud and gravel.

14. It is clear that we are not retreating from our influence on nature.

15. Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.

16. Retreating ice shelves could be expected as a result of global warming, but are not in themselves evidence of it.

17. Olive steadfastly refused to move from the Hall, retreating gradually into the east wing as the rest deteriorated.

18. Retreating troops were told to abandon their weapons and run as fast as they could towards the beach.

19. If your ordinary life is out of control, then retreating into a cosy ritual will not improve matters.

20. Kirkus also made a solo attempt on the line now known as Nameless, retreating from its final pitch.

21. "You haven't heard the last of this!'' shouted Spencer, retreating up the stairs.

22. And some, and among them Rhodri Parry, had more dangerous and precious things to hide from the retreating soldiery.

23. Behind her back, Mitch looked sceptically at his editor and Richie grinned, his gaze on Maggie's retreating figure.

24. The only trouble was this: the sepoys kept on bravely coming forward, while he and his men kept on retreating.

25. Perform combination techniques on the move so that you are able to work effectively in a retreating as well as an advancing mode.

26. Destiny tapped Colin Powell on the shoulder and he sold a million books before retreating to his Virginia mansion.

27. She traced a pattern over the rough-hewn stone of the sill, while behind her there was no sound of retreating footsteps.

28. Stopping to pick his hat off the road, he looked up at the retreating men.

29. Terry was standing at the landing window, Rose just retreating down the stairs.

30. She felt a sharp blow to her arm and gasped, retreating further.

31. Purple lines floated on the surfaces of his eyes, coming briefly into focus, then retreating into vague smudges.

32. Madonna shared a corner table with Evans and Rossellini for a while before retreating to the bar area.

33. Amelia loved poetry and had an ingrained habit of retreating into it to handle difficult situations.

34. Far from rejecting internationalism and retreating to isolationism, the Republicans were proposing to go beyond containment.

35. It was about laying waste enemy territory, about the pursuit of a retreating army, about sieges.

36. Atop their pillars round the Sheldonian Theatre, the busts of Roman emperors cast classically guarded looks at his retreating figure.

37. Retreating from the strange creature Barbara loses her balance and tumbles over a cliff.

38. What a spectre is that retreating sail!

39. Technically, they're retreating, but strategically, they're advancing.

40. During the Iraq War, American forces shelled Baghdad to deter the Republican Guard from retreating into the city.

41. The Waffen-SS divisions were now constantly retreating, though every so often a handful of tanks and panzergrenadiers would turn to form a rearguard .

42. But, they say, the effects are more noticeable in and near Juneau , where most glaciers are retreating 30 feet a year or more.

43. Shock troops were sent to hang on the rear of the retreating enemy.

44. The backshore dunes' retreating, the berms' lowering, and the shoreline's moving landwards was the main response feature of the profiles.

45. The artillery had a field day with the retreating enemy infantry.

46. London Metal Exchange copper rallied 5.6% at the open of electronic trading Monday, but the move proved to be a knee-jerk reaction, with prices retreating soon after.

47. Through a telescope we watched the unfolding drama of a puffin on a ledge, peering over the edge, thinking better of it, retreating, advancing, retreating.

48. Far from retreating , the women stood their ground , shouting angrily and rallying for a second attack.

49. They kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian.

50. From the hill base, the Hunter and the surviving Elites had re-formed their line and were retreating, already fifty meters away.

51. South Korea says the North Korean patrol boat suffered heavy damage in the exchange before retreating.

52. The young nurse pulled a face at the Matron's retreating figure.

53. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house!

54. The Marquis looked that way, and listened for the retreating step of his valet.

55. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind,(/retreating.html) down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

56. MITAG will travel WNW to NW in the next 36 hours along the southwestern periphery of the retreating subtropical ridge.

57. Their own promptitude in retreating at the critical moment saved them.

58. One of the retreating jobs was to dismantle the jib of a crawler mounted mobile crane.

59. Owing to the human activities, too much cutting of the forests and hunting, lesser pandas disappeared in part of the lesser panda districts and are constantly retreating to the southern mountains.

60. By burning his ships and eliminating the option of quickly retreating to Europe, Cortez guaranteed that he wouldn't leave his allies.

61. Based on her book-phrase in QQ signature, he digs out nowhere she wanted broke up?It is clearly now she used the skills of retreating in order to advance.

62. As the first option of the retreating means in that LLC, the transfer of shares becomes a mostly used choice in practice.

63. Why didn't he hold the Yankees instead of everlastingly retreating?

64. MITAG will travel WNW to NW in the next 48 hours along the southwestern periphery of the retreating subtropical ridge.

65. But having committed herself to this line of action there was no retreating for bad weather.

66. Himalayan glaciers are not retreating as rapidly as predicted and in some cases are expanding, claims Indian glaciologist Vijay Kumar Raina, who has caused controversy among scientists.

67. Retreating soldiers were dousing homes and shops with petrol and setting them on fire.

68. After his defeat at Plataea in 479 BC, Xerxes, king of Persia, was retreating from Greece when his ship, overloaded with Persian warriors, was caught in a heavy storm.

69. The design of the utility model uses the one way stopping and retreating device to realize the manual reset, consequently enlarges the range of application, reduces the volume and reduces the cost.

70. NATO stepped up its military campaign, bombing retreating columns as well as advancing ones, and attacking command-and-control centres frequented by Colonel Qaddafi and his family.

71. Retreating into self-sufficiency just when production may be reshaped is a starve-thy-neighbour policy.

72. A picked body of men were sent to bring up the rear of the retreating troops.

73. The catalytic performance of a deactivated commercial CB-8 Pt-Re reforming catalyst has been entirely recovered after chlorinating and retreating[Sentencedict], which can be reused in the commercial unit.

74. The retreating German army tried to blow up all the bridges on the Rhine River to stop the Allied troops from crossing into Germany.

75. He jabs it with the business end of the spear and it yelps, retreating, baring its fangs.

76. In 1776, George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.

77. In the top part of the weld, the tracer material in advancing side flows along the welding direction, and the tracer material in the retreating side flows oppositing to the welding direction.