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The researchers also found that as the soapy film retreats, soap molecules pack together more tightly.

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

Finally, a squad of reinforcements arrived and they were able to retreat.

Alison, meanwhile, had gone to a yoga retreat with her hippy-dippy mother.

Over 250 were killed before Stirling ordered the final retreat and surrendered himself to the British.

The law professor, Benny Tai, urged the students to “retreat and take the spirit of the Umbrella Movement into the community.”

The engineer officer charged with preparing the line of retreat reported that the one bridge across the Elster was not sufficient.

When this last shred of hope was gone, the Brigadier reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

Orlean was regarded as a fairly attractive woman; but her chin, unlike that of the one before him, was inclined to retreat.

In the retreat across the Niemen he proved himself absolutely incapable of reorganising a beaten force.

At least, his way of retreat would have remained open, and he might have gone, to return another day with force at his heels.