• River levels are expected to make a quick retreat, according to the National Weather Service.

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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.

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  • This is especially true if we were to let Saddam Hussein either get away with this aggression or make a tactical retreat that will permit him to preserve those capabilities.

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  • By October 2007, Michaelis said, al Qaeda seemed to make a strategic decision to retreat northward to Mosul.

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  • The warm neutral color palette (deep cocoa, creams and terra cotta) and custom-made furniture make the rooms a rich retreat after a day on the slopes.

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  • Their pledge to scrap inheritance tax for most households, so popular when it was unveiled in 2007 that it helped make Mr Brown retreat from a snap election he was about to call, now seems indulgent.

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  • Democrats today presumably view the current two-week agreement as a similar opportunity to make a short-term tactical retreat in hopes of winning bigger battles in the future (not just the fight over FY2011 spending levels, but also the upcoming FY2012 budget resolution debate and the debt limit conflict in June or July).

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  • Thapar's 39% stake in each, together with his private holdings, make him a billionaire even after the recent retreat in Indian share prices.

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  • Calculating politicians and a vicious media make sure that citizens retreat from empathy, which offers the only path to unity, and arrive at the dead end of argument and grievance.

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  • For example, a retreat out in the woods might make for being led to walk on top of a log or across a rickety bridge.

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  • Anyway the purpose of a retreat is to become precisely what you make it, right?

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  • After seeing Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette, " Ms. Savage felt inspired to make something of a pilgrimage to Versailles to see the Petit Hameau a lush retreat originally built for Marie Antoinette within the palace's grounds.

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  • This implies such ideas as currency boards, which restrict a government's ability to vary monetary policy, and international agreements which make it difficult to retreat from commitments to more open trade.

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  • The poison of radical Islam will spread far and wide across borders if it can make even a plausible claim to being on the ascendancy, and nothing would show that more than the retreat of America from Iraq.

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  • As with religion, it is presided over by a caste of spectacularly unattractive people pretending to an obscure form of knowledge that promises to make the seas retreat and the winds abate.

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  • When it comes to negotiation, it would be hard to retreat from asking for those opt-outs, but he should not make too much of a failure to win. (There is precious little new social legislation in the pipeline, and Britain already has the right to opt out of most new judicial measures.) A reprieve for the City from the proposed financial rules would be a coup.

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