Word: retreating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just weeks after the document was released, rumors and confusion left HoCo chairs uncertain about how to proceed in light of the new regulations, prompting College administrators to attend the HoCo retreat in mid-February to clarify questions and concerns that arose from the new rules...
...feeble U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government, or TFG), but recent months have seen a comeback by the radical Islamic groups that had asserted control over parts of the shattered country. Reports from the region suggest that the fundamentalist fighters will capture a town in a lightning raid and then retreat, more to show off their muscle than anything else. According to witnesses, the fighters behind these raids belong to the al-Shabab, a band of mostly young men who adhere to Taliban-style Islamic codes...
...patrol the area. But for about 20 years FARC units like the 48th Front have regularly slipped across the porous border into Ecuador - there are only two points along the 250-mile (400 km) frontier where passports are even checked - under cover of the rainforest's lush vegetation to retreat, rest or replenish supplies. Half a million Colombians are estimated to have moved into Ecuador with them. (Ecuador has recognized about 60,000 as war refugees.) Muddy Ecuadorian border villages like Puerto Nuevo are growing and are now overwhelmingly Colombian, says Fabian Narvaez, head of the Ecuadorian Army...
...University Hall across the Yard to Mass. Hall. Until 2007, the top two floors of the building held approximately two-dozen first-year students, but the dorm was taken offline for the 2007-2008 academic year. The closing of the doors of Mass. Hall to freshmen was a sad retreat from a tradition that held great symbolic value. For practical reasons, the use of Mass. Hall as a freshman dorm was purely positive: It increased the amount of students able to live on Harvard Yard without resorting to crowding or stuffing even more freshmen into Claverly Hall or Apley Court...
...dead turtle Orlando, and, looming above all else, he who had wronged her once again. She could not believe that she had allowed herself to be taken in, that she had allowed him to bring her to the brink of carnal bliss, only to recoil so suddenly and retreat stupidly into the hallway.Had the Viscountess been in a reflective mood, she might have considered the possibility that she no longer possessed for him the charms she had once had as a young bride; but that thought was too painful to accept, and she thrust it aside in favor of fury...