Retreat in example sentence

His calm retreat from some of the more isolating notions practiced by General de Gaulle, and his ability to have these policies accepted by most rank-and-file Gaullists, speak of self-disciplined ambitions, and a maturing Gaullism for the next century.

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A few years ago, I did a meditation retreat in Thailand.

So what you'd be wondering, watching the Human Show, is are we going to confront and address the catastrophic climate shift that may be heading our way by growing our consciousness, or are we going to continue to retreat?

We tend to retreat and say, "We can draw a picture, we can post some graphs, we get it, we understand how this works."

The challenges that we face cannot go away if we recoil and retreat into our shells, wishing and imagining that those problems will somehow magically disappear.

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