But his stewardship was not marked by the wholesale federal retreat on health issues that some liberals had feared.

But others said that the adjustments by the Justice Department and the commission did not represent a wholesale retreat.

And they criticized the Republicans as making a wholesale retreat on welfare in the name of deficit reduction.

Some liberal Catholics interpreted the outcome of the conference as a wholesale retreat.

Now with part of the tax incentive removed, few expect a wholesale retreat from venture capital.

The Times Mirror Company announced a series of cutbacks and closings yesterday that amount to a wholesale retreat from its strategy of becoming a multimedia powerhouse.

The inability to select anyone to lead certainly contributed to the wholesale retreat of an army that possibly could have defeated the Franks.

From up here it looks remarkably like a flippin' wholesale retreat, wot?

While that decision may be a pragmatic move, it must not turn into a wholesale retreat from efforts to curb Microsoft's monopolistic practices.

INDEPENDENT money managers agree that investors should not stage a wholesale retreat to ultrashort funds.