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That score was characteristically smart, slamming on the brakes and stepping out into the blind-side to cross as Samoa were retreating.

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Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.

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They also run online meetings for Sisters in Service members who live further afield, and they are looking at organising fitness activities and residential retreats.

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St Catherine's Monastery has endured many upheavals through the past millennium and a half but, when the oldest of the monks at the site originally moved there, it was still a remote retreat.

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Since coming to office this year, the US vice president has repeatedly criticised measures like the UK's Online Safety Act and claimed free speech in Europe was "in retreat".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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