It is a full scale, small, but efficient house that can become a year 'round retreat complete in every detail.

Hengist asks Vortigern to give him only enough land that Hengist can encircle with a leather thong, so that Hengist may build a fortress upon it — in case a future retreat may require it.

They can also be used to cover the retreat of forces disengaging from the enemy, or for interdiction of supporting units to isolate front line units from resupply.

* Adieu is a novella by Honoré de Balzac in which can be found a short description of the French retreat from Russia, particularly the battle of Berezina, where the fictional couple of the story are tragically separated.

On their consequent retreat northwards, they blew up the church of St. Ninians where they had been storing munitions ; only the tower survived and can be seen to this day.

The rate of retreat for a waterfall can be as high as one and half meters per year.

The meaning of a spiritual retreat can be different for different religious communities.

A retreat can either be a time of solitude or a community experience.

The Christian retreat can be defined in the most simplest of terms as a definite time ( from a few hours in length to a month ) spent away from one's normal life for the purpose of reconnecting, usually in prayer, with God.

When defeated, Koopas may flee from or retreat inside their shells, which can then usually be used as weapons.

From the High Middle Ages and throughout the Early Modern era, the political history of the Eastern Alps can be considered almost totally in terms of the advance or retreat of the house of Habsburg.

If he is in condition to continue the action, he will disregard it ; if he is not, it will be an excuse for his retreat and no blame can be imputed to him.

Hightower's retreat from society and his reluctance to reenter it can be read to contrast Christmas.

A statue for him can be found in the park at the Coehoornsingel, where in the harsh winter of 1795 English and Hanoverian soldiers were buried who had died while on retreat from advancing French troops.

Weta can inflict painful scratches, with the potential of infection, but their defence displays consist of looking large and spiky, and they will retreat if given a chance.

The tree's retreat can be used as a proxy for temperature changes during this period.

For example, a general or adviser with high intelligence statistics can lure an enemy unit into a trap or cause the unit to retreat.

A retreat can also be used as a plot device in a non-Earth setting, such as the diminishing of the Spirit-skills in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green Sky Trilogy.

The fish lay their eggs in a safe spot close to the anemone from where they are easily protected, and the parents can retreat to the safety of the anemone if danger threatens.

The defender uses mobile armored and infantry divisions to protect these points, but the defenders are still very mobile and can normally retreat.

However, this can be extracted at a later stage ( see retreat mining ).

Only in times when reality is a hollow, unspiritual, and shadowy existence, can a retreat be permitted out of the actual into an inner life .”

The term caucus is also used in mediation, facilitation and other forms of alternate dispute resolution to describe circumstances wherein, rather than meeting at a common table, the disputants retreat to a more private setting to process information, agree on negotiation strategy, confer privately with counsel and / or with the mediator, or simply gain " breathing room " after the often emotionally-difficult interactions that can occur in the common area where all parties are present.

Beaches are dynamic geologic features that can fluctuate between advancement and retreat of sediment.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.

And no messages can be transmitted on these circuits until senders and receivers authenticate in advance, by special codes, that the messages actually come from their purported sources.

All can be connected with the gold circuit from their homes.

Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.

And any sequence can not only change its positions in the work but can even be eliminated from it altogether.

Nothing can show more than this the immensity of the danger to democratic peoples that lies in even relatively slight deviation from their true concept of sovereignty.

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.

Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.

Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

He has employed from his section rich immediate materials which in a loose sense can be termed Southern.

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.

one can take it as no more than another veil torn from the mystery of the soul.

But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.

As a nation we can successfully pursue these objectives only from a position of broadly based strength.

In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.

After all, Shelley is no `` orthodox '' or Hellenic Platonist, and even his `` romantic '' Platonism can be distinguished from that of his contemporaries.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.