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Retreating in sentence

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This has been true for more than a decade, which is why the US was retreating from global leadership long before Trump took office.
Far from retreating into the role of fixer of market failures and outsourcer of services, governments should invest in their own critical faculties.
The Schengen area is still a work in progress, but the direction of its evolution is clear: rather than retreating on the principle of freedom of movement, member states are gradually reinforcing the EU’s external border.
The US, long a leader in establishing global norms, is retreating behind a psychological wall.
Rather than retreating from multilateralism, the international community must strengthen collective action.
A Better GlobalizationMADRID – The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted much reflection on the state of globalization, its drawbacks at a time of worldwide disruption, and the supposed benefits of retreating to the national sphere.
Citizens are demanding individual economic security and retreating into an isolationist mentality.
With the United States under its current administration retreating from the post-war transatlantic alliance, the EU was given the opportunity to make good on its expressed commitment to values, rights, and multilateral cooperation, and assert itself as a global leader.
First and foremost, the US under President Donald Trump is retreating from the global stage, and from Asia in particular.
With the US retreating from Asia and China threatening to dominate the region, Asia’s democracies must assert their common interests more strongly.
The two women were left to gaze at the doctor's retreating back.
But it was content to let its adversary approach, and then it would quickly resume its retreating ways.
'Yes, I have won a battle,' he told himself, 'but I must follow it up, I must crush the arrogance of this proud gentleman while he is still retreating.
Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by a steady and invisible force.
The knife and fork fell from the hands of the unwelcome intruder, as the door closed on the retiring figure of Harper; he arose slowly from his seat; listening attentively, he approached the door of the room - opened it - seemed to attend to the retreating footsteps of the other - and, amidst the panic and astonishment of his companions, he closed it again.
The air was mild, balmy, and refreshing; in the east, clouds, which might be likened to the retreating masses of a discomfited army, hung around the horizon in awful and increasing darkness.
The victorious Americans pressed the retreating Germans until they had driven them under the protection of the fire of the infantry; and feeling themselves, in the privacy of the lawn, relieved from any immediate danger, the predatory warriors yielded to a temptation that few of the corps were ever known to resist - opportunity and horseflesh.
Frances turned, and caught a glimpse of the retreating figure of him who had been so conspicuous an actor in the scene, and the illusion vanished.
"'Tis well, sir," said Wellmere, haughtily, and retreating towards the door, "my situation protects you now; but a time may come - "He had reached the entry, when a slight tap on his shoulder caused him to turn his head; it was Captain Lawton, who, with a smile of peculiar meaning, beckoned him to follow.
Frances listened anxiously to the retreating footsteps of his horse, and, as they died upon her ear, she ventured from her place of secrecy, and advanced a short distance into the field, where, startled at the gloom, and appalled with the dreariness of the prospect, she paused to reflect on what she had undertaken.
The cuadrillero on this let go Don Quixote's beard, and went out to look for a light to search for and apprehend the culprits; but not finding one, as the innkeeper had purposely extinguished the lantern on retreating to his room, he was compelled to have recourse to the hearth, where after much time and trouble he lit another lamp.
So saying he leaped off the bed, intending to close the door and not allow Senora Rodriguez to enter; but as he went to shut it Senora Rodriguez returned with a wax candle lighted, and having a closer view of Don Quixote, with the coverlet round him, and his bandages and night-cap, she was alarmed afresh, and retreating a couple of paces, exclaimed, "Am I safe, sir knight?
The retreating party in their haste, however, did not stop for that, or heed his menaces any more than last year's clouds.
'What do you mean by this insolence?' said Mr. Tupman, starting up; 'leave the room!''Hollo,' said Mr. Grummer, retreating very expeditiously to the door, and opening it an inch or two, 'Dubbley.'
'I am all right, Sir,' replied Mr. Stiggins, in a tone in which ferocity was blended with an extreme thickness of utterance; 'I am all right, Sir.''Oh, very well,' rejoined Mr. Anthony Humm, retreating a few paces.
'There, sir,' said Pott, retreating from the stove, 'and that's the way I would serve the viper who produces it, if I were not, fortunately for him, restrained by the laws of my country.''Serve him so, sir!' cried Slurk, starting up.
"We are never safe from HIM.""He will not come in, as Mrs. Jennings is from home.""I will not trust to THAT," retreating to her own room.
TARVIN stood on the platform of the station at Rawut Junction watching the dust cloud that followed the retreating Bombay mail.
Tarvin addressed a remark of confused purport to the retreating figures.
Kate gazed long after his retreating figure, and then took herself into the house, where a warm, healthful chat with Mrs. Estes, chiefly about the children at Bangor, helped her to a sane view of the situation she must face with the reappearance of Tarvin.
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