Retreat
in sentence
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But, while deliberation is taking place on how much Europe should
retreat
from its historical domination of multilateral bodies, there is little vision beyond this.
Following the Iraqi army’s retreat, the Peshmerga promptly took over the city, giving the Kurdish north ample oil and gas reserves.
With the United States an increasingly reluctant world policeman as it reconsiders, reduces, and realigns its strategic commitments, European countries – especially the United Kingdom and France, given Germany’s
retreat
from military participation – will have to bear principal responsibility for dealing with African security issues.
Radically rethinking evolutionary theory invariably attracts the attention of creationists, who gleefully announce that if professional advocates of Darwinism cannot agree, the concept must be in
retreat.
But, at the very least, President Barack Obama’s declared focus on “nation-building at home” has created a perception of
retreat
that worries many allies.
In all of his big diplomatic confrontations – over North Korea’s nuclear weapons, over the Mexican border wall, and over the revision of the North American Free Trade Agreement – Trump’s modus operandi has been to escalate aggressive rhetoric almost to the point of warfare and then suddenly negotiate a tactical
retreat.
But so would a breakdown in Buenos Aires, followed by a brief extension of anti-China tariffs and then, a few months or weeks later, another Trump-Xi summit and another “victorious retreat.”
Think of the British in June 1940 seeing their
retreat
from Dunkirk as a great triumph.
In the NIC’s view, “a collapse or sudden
retreat
of US power would most likely result in an extended period of global anarchy,” with “no stable international system and no leading power to replace the US.”
America’s Late Imperial DilemmaNEW YORK – US President Barack Obama is under attack – from so-called liberal hawks, more or less to the left of center, as well as from active interventionists on the right – for being a weak president, leading a war-weary (even world-weary) America in
retreat.
Kagan may be right in thinking that a precipitous US
retreat
from East Asia could have dangerous consequences.
If Japan’s relatively inexperienced government is blamed for everything that goes wrong, people might wish to
retreat
to the old ways of murky paternalism.
Liberalism is in
retreat.
Globalization is in retreat.”
But to abandon it altogether and
retreat
from globalization is the wrong answer.
One of the most hopeful and refreshing aspects of the Arab Spring has been the
retreat
of Arab radicalism in the face of real people anxious to address real problems.
Beyond placing hope in the revisionist power of chaos, the “Remain” camp is betting that “Leave” supporters will ultimately realize the folly of a “soft” Brexit, and
retreat.
But to say that, one must also assume that to some extent he himself is unbalanced and has shifted from a kind of guerilla warfare against the West, always with some possibility of retreat, to all-out combat.
I do not believe that the US is in a “period of retreat.”
The European integration process has, at its core, always been values-driven and rules-based – two qualities that are on
retreat
in today’s world.
Rather than
retreat
from a system that has yielded exceptional results, we must use the international community’s current crisis as a historic opportunity to reshape the existing order to better meet our modern challenges.
Today’s
retreat
to advanced-country asset markets could quickly revert to
retreat
from them.
This contributed not only to sovereign-debt and fiscal crises, but also to protracted stagnation outside East Asia, including Latin America’s “lost decade” and Africa’s “quarter-century retreat.”
If we are to realize the EU’s potential, and avoid a
retreat
by Britain to its sidelines, the balance between the EU and its member states will have to be re-addressed from first principles, with European institutions redesigned to make them truly more accountable and closer to those that they govern.
Only an alliance of conservative leaders and powers (including a
retreat
by America from diplomatic radicalism), Abdullah believes, can restore some stability to the Middle East.
Lest his base think he had gone soft on immigration, Trump attempted to cover his
retreat
with harsh rhetoric, arguing that illegal immigrants would “infest” the US and that most were hardened criminals.
The subsequent
retreat
to fiscal virtue triggered the 1938 “Roosevelt Recession.”
Even the Catalan pro-independence movement, headed by various parties, most of which would not feel comfortable being labeled “anti-globalization,” follows a similar logic of
retreat
into nationalism.
If you lack confidence in your ability to surmount the challenges of modernization, you might as well
retreat
into yourself and focus on who you are, rather than on what you want to achieve with others.
Kan’s
retreat
means that the mandarins continue to hold the reins of foreign and defense policy.
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