Thankfully, the corridor remained unoccupied, so that nobody witnessed his humiliating retreat.

It would appear that one side or another must beat a public and humiliating retreat for these meetings to have a meaningful outcome, some analysts said.

It had forced Khrushchev to remove his missiles, a humiliating retreat and a considerable loss of face in the international community.

Her clarification, of course, had turned into kRo's humiliating retreat.

Vespasian was closest to them, the legate of the II nd, who had seen his men forced into humiliating retreat at the river.

Their meddling threatens to force the United States from a widely admired position of leadership into humiliating retreat.

The British curbed their ambitions in Afghanistan following this humiliating retreat from Kabul.

The army was determined not to repeat its humiliating retreat from Indochina.

The United Nations, they feared, would become drawn into a vicious ethnic civil war and eventually forced to beat a humiliating retreat.

Things do not go according to plan, as Rick's group puts up a tenacious defense that leads to a humiliating retreat.