Sentences with phrase «slow retreat»

Despite cold and snowy winters for the past few years, scientists say it hasn't helped to slow the retreat of the glaciers in Western Canada.

«Moon's slow retreat from frozen Earth.»

The glacier is still quite thick and should slow its retreat once the bedrock slope begins to increase, and the minor lake calving ceases.

Zone 3: Mainly in India, southwestern Tibet and western Nepal, this area has mainly stagnating, retreating snouts and time variability with periods of slower retreat for some glaciers during parts of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Certainly with the Court's slow retreat from the no - funding principles represented in the voucher decision, the stricter Blaine amendments at the state level serve as a remaining bar to greater public funding of religious schools.

The influenza outbreak that's killed thousands of Americans and wreaked havoc on the lives of many more seems to have passed its peak and started a slow retreat.

Callendar's discovery prompted skepticism, but work by other scientists at the time studying the altered flowering times of plants and the slow retreat of glaciers spurred a continuing interest in how climate had evolved.

Technical achievements aside, Das Boot's key scene is undoubtedly the one where the Captain orders a slow retreat from drowning and burning enemy sailors, the power of the moment lit with astonishing clarity by Prochnow's humanity.

Kirshbaum left Amazon in 2013, and the retailer's publishing arm began a slow retreat to Seattle shortly thereafter.

The slow retreat is an attempt to avoid provoking a sudden or instinctive attack.

It was only when gaming became «Mainstream» that we saw the slow retreat into a more «friendly gaming community».

Since the 1970s, the glaciers have followed a pattern of periods of accelerated melt with two to three years in between of slower retreat and occasional advance (or growth).

It also means the cryptocurrency is slowing retreating to the cryptocurrency market.