Voorbeelden van retreating

• Fire fighters had to retreat from the fierce heat.

• On seeing us, the deer stood stock-still for a moment, then turned and retreated into the forest.

• The army was forced to retreat.

• I saw her coming and retreated.

• They retreated to the relative safety of the forest.

• It is the biological equivalent of the retreating glaciers and ice shelves, and yet to unravel its complexities can take a lifetime's work.

• Global warming sparks scramble for black gold under retreating ice.

• Physically, this would correspond to transition from a retreating to an advancing saturation front.

• Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision.

• To her, the increasingly guilty pleasure she took in retreating into her own imaginary world and characters was a form of false worship.

• They believe that such terms can only stand for internal mechanisms; a behaviorist who uses them must therefore be retreating from behaviorism.

• Middle-class residents were anxious to demarcate themselves from the working class, and sought to do so by retreating into private suburban domesticity.

• Following - the subject followed a retreating opponent with the nose maintained close to the opponent's anogenital region.

• However, having gone down a column, "retreating" upward no longer reduces the political visibility.

• In exploration, he advances, fixating the stimulus, just as he does if, after retreating, he regains courage and pursues the object.

• Retreating textures elicited strong initial activity that declined to baseline levels before movement ceased.

• In the meantime, states have gradually been retreating from the social responsibilities that characterized their early populist development.

• This view does not produce a solution to the problem by retreating to describing subjective rationality.

• The edge which moves with the flow is called the 'retreating edge' (the right-hand edge in the figure), the other edge is the 'advancing edge'.

• The male partner is sometimes prevented from mating by the female partner retreating into its shell.