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Spiders use silk for many purposes, including the trailing safety dragline, wrapping eggs for reproduction, protective retreats and catching prey.
And wherever life is, it never retreats.
When it meets itself, it knows it's already there, it recognizes it's there, and instead retreats back and grows in other directions.
As if that weren't enough, the water then retreats, dragging with it the newly created debris, and anything, or anyone, unfortunate enough to be caught in its path.
Yet I'd sit on these silent retreats, sweating through T-shirts in the middle of winter.
They're not retreats from the world at all, but instead they're the reasons why we come to these spaces.
Eventually, O’Keeffe settled down in New Mexico, near one of her favorite artist retreats.
A normal guy becomes linked to the strange world, called Midian, through his dreams and his psychiatrist coerces him into believing he is responsible for a series of gruesome murders of families in recent months... Thinking this to be true, he retreats to Midian - located under a rural cemetery - where he is reluctantly accepted.
Panic-stricken, he retreats to a bar, and meets Joe Curran (played by Peter Boyle): a loud-mouth, angry, bigot who is bitter over how his beloved country has become.
What she doesn't expect is to find another supposed doctor in his position after Stephens is attacked by axe-wielding maniacal "judge" Oliver W Cameron(..in a running gag, anytime he confronts a situation out of his control, he retreats to repeating his name).
Desperate to re-center himself, Cassavettes retreats to a remote Greek island--where the locals and the island itself weave a little magic.
Sayer retreats to his palatial estate, running Maria through a humiliating series of mind games, threatening to molest and kill her.
He retreats to California to start his work giving advice on a radio show pretending to be the infamous Dr Lawrence Baird.
When Stanwyck's husband-to-be is murdered on the eve of their wedding, she retreats to a mountain lodge, where she slips (sort of) off a cliff and is rescued by wealthy attorney Morgan.
In 1840, faced with blind discrimination, unfounded gossip and strict religious judgment, Anson Campbell, a seminary student, retreats to the sea.
When the mean teenagers belittle and abuse him, Allan retreats into the woods to find refuge with his frogs.
And get this: the scene stays tracked as Lulu retreats into the rain and disappears.
US President Donald Trump seems intent on ensuring that America retreats, at least partly, from its global leadership role.
As the US retreats from the world stage and a multipolar global order emerges, the international monetary system may well be transformed – but probably not into a renminbi-led system.
As unrest mounted with these military retreats, offshore US forces monitored and intercepted jihadists who sought to enter Somalia, while Kenya and Ethiopia blocked the unrest from metastasizing across the region.
As the United States retreats from global leadership, China is expanding its international influence.
Occasionally, however, governments stage successful retreats from welfare-state dysfunction.
Once again, too, state coffers are tapped to support these privileged retreats.
He is spineless, devoid of principle, and retreats in the face of responsibility.
Now, however, the trillion-dollar overnight repo market in housing mortgages is so large that, when the housing market retreats, financial stability could be threatened.
If the dollar retreats in 2016, however, the basket peg implies a stronger renminbi-dollar rate, which might be unhelpful.
Nevertheless, for most of his presidency, Yeltsin kept alive – albeit with many tactical retreats – the goal of economic reform.
He banned business-class travel and expensive government retreats, sacked allegedly corrupt senior officials, and began streamlining complicated regulations that crooked bureaucrats exploited to extract hefty bribes.
Trump’s skill at turning US retreats into personal political victories was on display in his dealings with North Korea and his acquiescence to Russian dominance in Syria.
If Trump eventually retreats in his confrontation with China, few voters will know or care that he failed to achieve his supposed economic objectives.