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We had to beat a hasty retreat from his noisy, enthusiastic supporters to conduct an interview in the back of my car.
BBC: Sierra Leone faces huge election test
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However, he was forced to make a hasty retreat at the end of the ceremony when some fans tried to invade the stage.
BBC: Ronaldo welcomed by 80,000 fans
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Oil prices beat a hasty retreat Monday, as the dollar firmed up and the prospect of diplomatic talks with Iran soothed fears of a military strike.
FORBES: Dollar Beats Back Oil
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Informed by his advisors that winning the support of space workers around Cape Canaveral was important to carrying Florida in the primaries, Obama beat a hasty retreat.
FORBES: Saving NASA From The Obama Science Fair
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It flared up over plans to mark the battle's 250th anniversary with a re-enactment, and ended with Quebec separatists crying victory and Canada's federal government beating a hasty retreat.
ECONOMIST: A 250-year-old defeat still rankles
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Americans remaining at the embassy were forced to beat a hasty retreat, evacuating into helicopters from rooftops as South Vietnamese friends and associates begged mostly unsuccessfully to be taken along.
NPR: Ford Remembered in His Own Words
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"Downing Street suddenly knew that it faced a choice between the story coming out, though in a far more technicolour and dramatic way than anyone had up to that stage realised, or beating a hasty retreat, " he writes in the latest edition of the magazine, edited by Tory MP Boris Johnson.
BBC: Blair 'feared' Black Rod's evidence
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But this week Vodacom beat a hasty and not very dignified retreat.
ECONOMIST: A surprise exit from Africa's most promising market