Global warming sparks scramble for black gold under retreating ice.
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Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision.
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Their mood changed only after the governor - wi retreated into his palace.
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However, after contact with the mucus, the ants retreated and exhibited antennal cleaning, especially when contact with the nectary took place soon after mucus treatment.
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They can automate their response, as with a doomsday machine, or change their environment, as when troops burn their bridges to make retreats impossible.
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Prospective proponents of universal worker protection policy retreated, conceding business prerogatives in the labor market.
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In exploration, he advances, fixating the stimulus, just as he does if, after retreating, he regains courage and pursues the object.
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After this loss of honour (for such was the decree's real significance), conservative nobles retreated into passivity or departed altogether.
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To her, the increasingly guilty pleasure she took in retreating into her own imaginary world and characters was a form of false worship.
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Whenever it seems that a summatory point is going to be made, the author persistently retreats into jargon, loading his sentences with unnecessarily complex terminology.
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They believe that such terms can only stand for internal mechanisms; a behaviorist who uses them must therefore be retreating from behaviorism.
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Study courses and retreats were methods used to spread the word among a core of activists.
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As silence retreats, the sonic entity in our external world enters in and becomes part of the constant exchange inside us.
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The literature also indicates that the glaciers generally retreated during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Middle-class residents were anxious to demarcate themselves from the working class, and sought to do so by retreating into private suburban domesticity.
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glacial retreat
Interglacial episodes, or at least episodes of glacial retreat, are evidenced by interdigitating strata of warm, or nonglacial, facies.
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religious retreat
The format involves a number of individuals, who are not necessarily religious, spending a period of time in a place ofreligiousretreat.
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retreat centre
Theretreatcentrerequested urgent medical assistance.
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