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The goal of raids in Yanomami Indigenous territory is to disrupt the supply lines of illegal mining so that it can no longer be supports and force the retreat of the trespassers. – Environmental Agency	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think people feel isolated after brain injury because they don’t feel able, and when you don’t feel able, you generally retreat back inside, at these retreats, people are given the space to lean into those deep challenges and express them and talk about them. – Adam Pearce	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At the end of the day, anyone else will be intimidated, bought off, blackmailed or ripped to shreds. I alone will never retreat. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The ongoing lack of affordability has limited buyer activity this winter, but this month’s retreat in mortgage rate has shown how eager buyers are to get back into the market, lower interest rates and the coming spring homebuying season promise more opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. – Hannah Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude than to be gravely misunderstood. – S.A. Quinox	added by QuinoxPoetry 1 year ago
This is a terrible crime, enabled by the complete lack of vetting and transparency in the wake of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan retreat, our government should be protecting the families of New Mexico, not importing twisted individuals who prey on children. That is why last year I pushed for thorough vetting of migrants that the Biden administration has brought to our communities, and why I continue to fight for accountability. – Yvette Herrell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
All kids experienced loss, whether loss of their normal lives, their family's livelihood or loved ones, it's not surprising that we are seeing kids retreat into the places where they do have control. – Eli Lebowitz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Alaskans know I'm the last one who'll ever retreat. Instead, I'm going to reload, with optimism that Alaskans learn from this voting system mistake and correct it in the next election, let's work even harder to send an America First conservative to Washington in November. It's the only way to clean up the mess that President Joe Biden in 2020 and the radical Democrats have made of things. – Sarah Palin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These are not good days for liberty. If you look around the world, you see that the idea of freedom, freedom which contains a sense of carefree-ness, seems everywhere in retreat, hounded by guns and bombs. – Salman Rushdie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude, than to be gravely misunderstood. Author: S.A. Quinox – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
Having places for the cat to retreat, such as cat towers or cardboard boxes, will also give them some security in their new space, with kids [in the house], take things slowly, speak softly to the cat and allow the cat to come to the child at its own pace. – Natalie Buxton	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Scholars of the rise and fall of democracies have identified the business sector as often one of the most important bulwarks against authoritarianism, but... the attitude inside too many C-suites today after seeing what happened to Disney is to keep their heads down and retreat from playing any role in the current battle for democracy. – Protect Democracy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My heart is heavy because it aches for the times when we actually lived up to our reputation as the world's greatest deliberative body. It longs for the days in which Democrats and Republicans would meet on middle ground rather than retreat to partisan trenches. – Senator Orrin G. Hatch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Thousands, already tens of thousands, are killed in this war against Ukraine. And this number will unfortunately only grow, we are not going to surrender. We have nowhere to retreat. – Wladimir Klitschko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are not going to surrender. We have nowhere to retreat. – Wladimir Klitschko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In the coming years, we expect the Thwaites grounding line in the region to slowly retreat up the seabed slope that it currently rests on as the warm ocean eats away at its underside. – Peter Washam	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Today, I pray for the victims, I pray for our country, I pray for our children and grandchildren, and I pray that this travesty of a case is an outlier on our path to a more just system, and not a signal of retreat backwards, because, we simply ca n’t afford it. – Ben Crump	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Can we build walls and levies and dikes fast enough to keep up with that ? One concern would be that at that point you're sort of looking at managed retreat essentially, rather than geoengineering in a lot of places. at the high end, the worst-case scenarios, with sort of business as usual greenhouse gas emissions... we will literally be remapping coastlines. – Read MoreThe study	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It perfectly illustrates the current moment – right now that first retreat he’s talking about is mostly digital. That’s how we get away from ourselves — by retreating into technology and social media. But the only way to find peace and thrive is to take breaks from the world and make time to regularly renew ourselves by reconnecting with ourselves. – Arianna Huffington	added by AnaDay 2 years ago
Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine who served four tours in Iraq, said, “The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan has passed, but there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat.” – Seth Moulton	added by MoWali 2 years ago
This murderous attack offers the clearest possible reminder that terrorists will not stop fighting the United States just because our politicians grow tired of fighting them, i remain concerned that terrorists worldwide will be emboldened by our retreat, by this attack, and by the establishment of a radical Islamic terror state in Afghanistan. – House Republican	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's a myth to say there was widespread public pressure on the administration to leave, the general public was ambivalent. This was a retreat of choice, not a retreat of necessity. – Peter Feaver	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Take a breath, take a stance, don’t rush forward or hold back, close your eyes, and let the mind relax. As anxious feet retreat to the cuddle of melodies, begin the journey of dance and the sacred path – Shah Asad Rizvi	added by shahasadrizvi 2 years ago
There are over 130 million families in America. I don't need all 130, I need a million, and if we get a million families involved and get them loud and active in the process, we will change things and change things fast, and they will start to retreat. – Founder Terry Schilling	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

The goal of raids in Yanomami Indigenous territory is to disrupt the supply lines of illegal mining so that it can no longer be supports and force the retreat of the trespassers.

– Environmental Agency

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think people feel isolated after brain injury because they don’t feel able, and when you don’t feel able, you generally retreat back inside, at these retreats, people are given the space to lean into those deep challenges and express them and talk about them.

– Adam Pearce

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At the end of the day, anyone else will be intimidated, bought off, blackmailed or ripped to shreds. I alone will never retreat.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ongoing lack of affordability has limited buyer activity this winter, but this month’s retreat in mortgage rate has shown how eager buyers are to get back into the market, lower interest rates and the coming spring homebuying season promise more opportunities for buyers and sellers alike.

– Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude than to be gravely misunderstood.

– S.A. Quinox

added by QuinoxPoetry
1 year ago

This is a terrible crime, enabled by the complete lack of vetting and transparency in the wake of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan retreat, our government should be protecting the families of New Mexico, not importing twisted individuals who prey on children. That is why last year I pushed for thorough vetting of migrants that the Biden administration has brought to our communities, and why I continue to fight for accountability.

– Yvette Herrell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

All kids experienced loss, whether loss of their normal lives, their family's livelihood or loved ones, it's not surprising that we are seeing kids retreat into the places where they do have control.

– Eli Lebowitz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Alaskans know I'm the last one who'll ever retreat. Instead, I'm going to reload, with optimism that Alaskans learn from this voting system mistake and correct it in the next election, let's work even harder to send an America First conservative to Washington in November. It's the only way to clean up the mess that President Joe Biden in 2020 and the radical Democrats have made of things.

– Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are not good days for liberty. If you look around the world, you see that the idea of freedom, freedom which contains a sense of carefree-ness, seems everywhere in retreat, hounded by guns and bombs.

– Salman Rushdie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude, than to be gravely misunderstood. Author: S.A. Quinox

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

Having places for the cat to retreat, such as cat towers or cardboard boxes, will also give them some security in their new space, with kids [in the house], take things slowly, speak softly to the cat and allow the cat to come to the child at its own pace.

– Natalie Buxton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Scholars of the rise and fall of democracies have identified the business sector as often one of the most important bulwarks against authoritarianism, but... the attitude inside too many C-suites today after seeing what happened to Disney is to keep their heads down and retreat from playing any role in the current battle for democracy.

– Protect Democracy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My heart is heavy because it aches for the times when we actually lived up to our reputation as the world's greatest deliberative body. It longs for the days in which Democrats and Republicans would meet on middle ground rather than retreat to partisan trenches.

– Senator Orrin G. Hatch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Thousands, already tens of thousands, are killed in this war against Ukraine. And this number will unfortunately only grow, we are not going to surrender. We have nowhere to retreat.

– Wladimir Klitschko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are not going to surrender. We have nowhere to retreat.

– Wladimir Klitschko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the coming years, we expect the Thwaites grounding line in the region to slowly retreat up the seabed slope that it currently rests on as the warm ocean eats away at its underside.

– Peter Washam

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today, I pray for the victims, I pray for our country, I pray for our children and grandchildren, and I pray that this travesty of a case is an outlier on our path to a more just system, and not a signal of retreat backwards, because, we simply ca n’t afford it.

– Ben Crump

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Can we build walls and levies and dikes fast enough to keep up with that ? One concern would be that at that point you're sort of looking at managed retreat essentially, rather than geoengineering in a lot of places. at the high end, the worst-case scenarios, with sort of business as usual greenhouse gas emissions... we will literally be remapping coastlines.

– Read MoreThe study

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It perfectly illustrates the current moment – right now that first retreat he’s talking about is mostly digital. That’s how we get away from ourselves — by retreating into technology and social media. But the only way to find peace and thrive is to take breaks from the world and make time to regularly renew ourselves by reconnecting with ourselves.

– Arianna Huffington

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine who served four tours in Iraq, said, “The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan has passed, but there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat.”

– Seth Moulton

added by MoWali
2 years ago

This murderous attack offers the clearest possible reminder that terrorists will not stop fighting the United States just because our politicians grow tired of fighting them, i remain concerned that terrorists worldwide will be emboldened by our retreat, by this attack, and by the establishment of a radical Islamic terror state in Afghanistan.

– House Republican

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's a myth to say there was widespread public pressure on the administration to leave, the general public was ambivalent. This was a retreat of choice, not a retreat of necessity.

– Peter Feaver

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Take a breath, take a stance, don’t rush forward or hold back, close your eyes, and let the mind relax. As anxious feet retreat to the cuddle of melodies, begin the journey of dance and the sacred path

– Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

There are over 130 million families in America. I don't need all 130, I need a million, and if we get a million families involved and get them loud and active in the process, we will change things and change things fast, and they will start to retreat.

– Founder Terry Schilling

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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