Recede

The Court is unwilling, however, to recede from the position announced in its repeated decisions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to these proxies, the climatic evolution of East Africa over the past 150 years (‘modern climate†™) is characterized by a drastic dislocation around 1880, when lake levels dropped notably and glaciers started to recede from the latest maximum extent. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It required an effort for her to recede from the comfortable habit of thought she had attained to the point of view from which the aspirations of the soul had appeared of more importance than the satisfactions of the body. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Charles II was forced to recede from the French alliance by his Parliament in 1674. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

The change is not in God, but in the circumstances which regulate God's dealings: just as we say the land recedes from us when we sail forth, whereas it is we who recede from the land (Eze 18: 21; 33: 11). ❋ Unknown (1871)

He often expanded his poetic rhapsodies on the sex life of plants with prose footnotes that also ascribe a wide range of intentionality and emotion to the plant kingdom: The vegetable passion of love is agreeably seen in the flower of the parnassia, in which the males alternately approach and recede from the female; and in the flower of nigella, or devil in the bush, in which the tall females bend down to their dwarf husbands. ❋ Unknown (2001)

It's getting a lot of attention in the world of new media, mainly because Epstein spends a couple of its chapters (previously published in The New York Review of Books) discussing the opportunities now offered by digital technology to do what he has been trying to do throughout his career: resuscitate serious publishing and bookselling, and America's literary life itself, even as the material essence of those institutions — paper and ink — begins to recede from the world. ❋ Unknown (2001)

It will also be remembered when despatches of a somewhat irritating character, passed between the Governments of the United States and Great Britain with regard to the celebrated Trent affair that Her Majesty revised the despatch which Lord John Russell proposed to send to the Government of the United States, and suggested certain modifications in the language used by Lord John Russell, which enabled the Government of the United States to recede from the position it had taken in this matter without loss of dignity. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The feather'd nations shed a floating shade; part of the tail on the right side of the fish strikes the water at the same time that another oblique plain strikes it on the left side, hence in respect to moving to the right or left these percussions of the water counteract each other, but they coincide in respect to the progression of the fish; this power seems to be better applied to push forwards a body in water, than the oars of boats, as the particles of water recede from the stroke of the oar, whence the comparative power acquired is but as the difference of velocity between the striking oar and the receding water. ❋ Unknown (1803)

So they're still waiting for that river to recede, which is really just a glorified creek, but now rushing torrent and has been the last couple of days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is that if they will seek out a special type of tick, the gen-e-tic, they can use it to cause their myopic gene to recede, that is, to become recessive. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1997)

"It was easy to kind of recede into the woodwork," he said, adding that he made comments only about the issue of reasonable doubt. ❋ Dan Morse (2011)

'unknown man' that life must recede - in other words, that the organ-building processes of the body must come to a standstill - if consciousness is to come into its own. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)

"recede," as it were, in either direction, is another matter. ❋ Enrico Caruso (1897)

However, should sex and family issues recede in political significance, religion—or religiosity—will gradually cease to be such a salient political division. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

The data suggest that abortion and gay marriage may recede as political issues. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

This was not a temporary crisis like the near-collapse of 2008; this was an intrinsic problem reaching crisis levels from which it could not be expected to recede. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such traditionally constitutive elements of fiction as "plot," "character," or "setting" might remain as notional devices, but would recede in importance to the structural patterning of language the author has employed. ❋ Unknown (2010)