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In summertime the garrison comes to life with the Changing of the Guard (10am daily, June 24–first week of Sept.) and Beating the Retreat (6pm Wed–Sat during July and August).
Finding his forces outnumbered and overextended here, the young prince beat a tactical retreat, but the English army hounded him relentlessly.
The WP says that although Lewinsky didn't provide any new information (to the "dismay" of the prosecutors, says USAT ), she also didn't retreat in any way from her past testimony.
… In an interview , George W. Bush begins to lay out his foreign policy vision: "[The United States] should not retreat" but should "be humble in its leadership."
The retreat from Medicaid--government-subsidized care for the poor and disabled--is the more pronounced of the two.