The crusaders were turned back after their dwindling supplies led to a forced retreat.

It's a good principle not to delay what will be a forced retreat.

Then the Battle of Caporetto defeat, with its forced retreat, caused 76a Squadriglia to relocate quickly thrice in November 1917.

- so has the 1996 Clinton victory now produced an explanation in the same ringing meter for its forced retreat from some questionable political fund raising: "It was a temple, you idiot!"

Since his forced retreat from power in a corruption scandal, Tom DeLay, the former House Republican majority leader, must have been watching re-runs of "Cool Hand Luke."

I raved on, waving my fist, shouting with what I hoped would sound like the bravado often used to cover a forced retreat.

His men grumbled when Theseus began to lead them in a forced retreat.

A lower-off and forced retreat left the top section still to climb.

This forced retreat gave him time for reflection, meditation and produced in him a late awakening to religious faith.

The forced retreat, a culmination of years of distrust between the peasants and the mine, was a chastening blow for an industry in the midst of a boom.