First, he sent scrum-half Thomas to the sin-bin for not retreating at a penalty.

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France got the opening score at the Stade de France through a seventh-minute Elissalde penalty, given against the Irish for not retreating the full 10 metres following a previous infringement.

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With Leamy - for hands in a ruck - and Simon Shaw - for not retreating 10m - in the sin-bin, O'Gara sent over his second penalty for a three-point lead.

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The visitors began badly when fly-half Steve Meyer missed a straightforward penalty just two minutes after kick-off, while Meyer was sin-binned in the 16th minute for not retreating 10m from a quick tap penalty.

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The idea was to redeem the world, not by retreating from it, but by "Christianizing it, " carrying out all the tasks of daily living with a new spirit.

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And we are not a retreating nation.

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As a result, investors may want to consider reducing allocations to commodities in their investment portfolios for 2012 from the levels they had set in 2011, but I would not recommend retreating entirely from commodities as an asset class.

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It is intended to drive home the administration's new and insistent message: that withdrawal from Afghanistan and wide-ranging defence cutbacks do not mean America is retreating from Asia.

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Each one told me how they took time off, retreating into the unknown, tolerating (though not enjoying) the uncertainty, allowing things to fall apart without rushing to put them back together.

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The private sector has not yet come close to filling the gap left by the retreating state.

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Realistically, however, even an improved state pension would not be enough to take up all the slack left by retreating companies.

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This attitude toward struggle is not only counterproductive -- leading to self-defeating behaviors including retreating inward with self-doubt and avoiding necessary risk for fear of failure -- it is also wrong.

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The glaciers could be retreating because of one of the countless natural oscillations in the climate that scientists do not properly understand.

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