Fall back Sentence Examples

It was time to fall back and rebuild another.

It had a stiff fight on the 23rd of April and was obliged to fall back.

He smiled at her, understanding what it was to mourn the loss of a sibling.  As much as he missed Jade, he was glad he at least had Hannah to fall back on.  She had Katie's beauty – without the abrasive personality.

Avoiding the artificial restraints of civilization, they were prone to fall back into animalism pure and simple.

We have already seen that De Blainville, though fully persuaded of the great value of sternal features as a method of classification, had been compelled to fall back upon the old pedal characters so often employed before; but now the scholar had learnt to excel his teacher, and not only to form an at least provisional arrangement of the various members of the Class, based on sternal characters, but to describe these characters at some length, and so give a reason for the faith that was in him.

Meanwhile the Spanish governor-general, Manuel Macias y Casado, had ordered the forces under his command in the southern part of the island to fall back towards the ridge of mountains intersecting it from east to west, just north of the town of Coamo.

The road now lay completely open, but the Austrian columns had so opened out owing to the state of the roads that the leading troops could not pursue their advantage - Dupont rallied and the Austrians had actually to fall back towards Ulm to procure food.

Before his advance both Ney and Bernadotte (the latter, between Ney and the Baltic, covering the siege of Danzig) were compelled to fall back.

Calling up St Cyr, whom he had already warned to remain at Dresden with his command, he decides to fall back towards Erfurt, and go into winter quarters between that place and Magdeburg, pointing out that Dresden was of no use to him as a base and that if he does have a battle, he had much better have St Cyr and his men with him than at Dresden.

Moore was ignorant of their exact position and strength, but he knew that Valladolid had been occupied, and so his first orders were that Baird should fall back to Galicia and Hope to Portugal.

He then finally decided to attack Soult (intending subsequently to fall back through Galicia) and ordered up transports from Lisbon to Corunna and Vigo; thus changing his base from Portugal to the north-west of Spain; Blake's Spanish army, now rallying under the marquis de la Romana near Leon, was to co-operate, but was able to give little effective aid.

An insulting decree was passed in the Cortes, ordering the prince Dom Pedro to come to Europe, which filled the Brazilians with alarm; they foresaw that without a central authority the country would fall back to its former colonial state subject to Portugal.

The engagement was disastrous to the British, who had undertaken far too comprehensive an attack, and the Natal Field Force was obliged to fall back upon Ladysmith with the loss of 1500 men, including a large number of prisoners belonging to the left column under Lieut.-Colonel F.R.C. Carleton,who were cut off at Nicholson's Nek and forced to surrender by a mixed force of Transvaalers and Free Staters under Christian de Wet.

The Maltese relied on the Roman Canon Law, the English on the common law of England, Scots or Irish had nothing but the English law to fall back upon.

The right wing of the German Seventeenth Army had been forced to fall back some 12 m., abandoning in succession a series of strong and well-fortified defensive systems, the loss of which had an instant effect on the situation to the south.

When the German squadron was sighted it would have been possible to fall back on the " Canopus," but this would have entailed the destruction of the " Otranto," which would have been overtaken by the enemy in two or three hours.

About the middle of the afternoon Hancock arrived on the field with orders from Meade to assume command and to decide whether to continue the fight there or to fall back.

When the cage arrives at the surface, or rather the platform forming the working top above the mouth of the pit, it is received upon the keeps, a pair of hinged gratings which are kept in an inclined position over the pit-top by counterbalance weights, so that they are pushed aside to allow the cage to pass upwards, but fall back and receive it when the engine is reversed.

Having been abruptly recalled into Anjou by a revolt of his barons, he returned to the charge in September 1136 with a strong army, including in its ranks William, duke of Aquitaine, Geoffrey, count of Vendome, and William Talvas, count of Ponthieu, but after a few successes was wounded in the foot at the siege of Le Sap (October 1) and had to fall back.

Forced asunder at the outset, each would (in all probability) fall back along his own line of communication, and the gap thus made between the allies would enable the emperor to manoeuvre between them and defeat them in turn.

In the garden Jesus here Himself goes forth to meet His captors, and these fall back upon the ground, on His revealing Himself as Jesus of Nazareth.

A fortnight later the same manoeuvres, combined with constant "tapping" at the Confederate defences, caused him to fall back again.

Otho's advanced guard successfully defended Placentia against Alienus Caecina, and compelled that general to fall back on Cremona.

The Othonians, though taken at a disadvantage, fought desperately, but were finally forced to fall back in disorder upon their camp at Bedriacum.

After 1885 Canada was therefore compelled to fall back upon the treaty of 1818 as the guarantee of her fishing rights.

In winter, when the plants are at rest, little water will be necessary; but in the case of those plants which have no fleshy pseudobulbs to fall back upon for sustenance, they must not be suffered to become so dry as to cause the leaves to shrivel.

Finally he would consider, in a crowning treatise De cive, how men, being naturally rivals or foes, were moved to enter into the better relation of Society, and demonstrate how this grand product of human wit must be regulated if men were not to fall back into brutishness and misery.

If this view be, rejected and it is necessary to fall back on the choice between 64 and 67, the problem is perhaps insoluble, but 64 has somewhat more intrinsic probability, and 67 can be explained as due to an artificial system of chronology which postulated for Peter an episcopate of Rome of twenty-five years - a number which comes so often in the early episcopal lists that it seems to mean little more than "a long time," just as "forty years" does in the Old Testament.

It fell with the coming back of the xile Dion in The tyranny had lasted so long 3 5 7 Y Y g that it was less easy than at the overthrow of the elder tyrants to fall back on an earlier state of things.

But all the greatest of the Hebrew prophets fall back speedily upon the unassuming human " I "; while in the Koran the divine " I " is the stereotyped form of address.

For thirteen days a cannonade of the town was continued without effect; and on the 20th of April, news having come in from the advanced guard at Hamad of large reinforcements to the besieged, General Stewart was compelled to retreat; and a dragoon was despatched to Lieutenant-colonel Macleod, commanding at Hamad, with orders to fall back.

No pantheistic theory of an eternal substance continuously expressing itself in different individuals who fall back into its being like drops into the ocean will here be sufficient.

In the end she was defeated, and there was nothing for it but to fall back upon Palmyra across the desert.

In his answering despatch Cadorna repeated the instructions to fall back upon the principal line of resistance in case of an enemy attack.

Retiring on the night of May 29, the troops that were to fall back upon Pria Fora lost their way in the dark and kept too far south, halting on Monte Ciove, the ridge that joins Pria Fora to Monte Novegno and Monte Brazome.

There was a tendency to fall back upon the conception of some kind of parallelism, whether it was taken to be interpretative or rather corrective of Kant's meaning.

Army and fall back on a line that could be held by a smaller number of troops.

He was obliged to fall back along the road by which he had come.

He was prepared indeed to fall back upon that, in the event of the Estates at any time refusing sanction to either church or creed, as their sovereign in Paris promptly refused it.

Only here, instead of assuming something immaterial (and therefore unverifiable), we fall back upon a current of air or gas (irv€Uµa); the essential reason of the thing is itself material, standing to it in the relation of a gaseous to a solid body.

Wellesley, who had now become Viscount Wellington, opposed his march south wards, and won a victory at Bussaco on the 27th of September; but Massena subsequently turned the position of the allied army on the Serra de Bussaco, and caused Wellington to fall back upon the fortified lines which he had already constructed at Torres Vedras.

When, however, Lysias returned in force to renew the contest, Judas had to fall back upon the Temple mount, and escaped defeat only because the Syrian leader was obliged to hasten back to Antioch in order to prevent a rival from seizing the regency.

Systems life Spinozism, which seem to form a third class, neither sacrificing force to thought nor thought to force, yet by their denial of final causes inevitably fall back into the Democritic or essentially materialistic standpoint, leaving us with the great antagonism of the mechanical and the organic systems of philosophy.

To obviate this difficulty we are forced to fall back upon weight, or rather the structures and appliances which weight represents.

Menelek was advancing with a large army in national support of Mangasha, and the subsequent reverses at Amba Alagi (7th December 1895) and Macalle (23rd January 1896) forced the Italians to fall back.

We thus after all fall back on reflection as our ground for their universal application; mere spontaneity of apprehension is futile; their universality is grounded in their necessity, not their necessity in their universality.

The legal support given him by judges of his own selection was fortified by the military support of an army collected at Hounslow Heath; and a Roman Catholic, the earl of Tyrconnel, was sent as lord-deputy to Ireland (1687) to organize a Roman Catholic army on which the king might fall back if his English forces proved insufficient for his purpose.

It might either fall back on the moral principles commonly accepted, and, affirming their objective validity, endeavour to exhibit them as a coherent and complete set of ultimate ethical truths; or it might take the utility or conduciveness to pleasure, to which Hume had referred for the origin of most sentiments, as an ultimate end and standard by which these sentiments might be judged and corrected.

Observe that for a determinant of the n-th order, taking the decomposition to be r + (n - I), we fall back upon the equations given at the commencement, in order to show the genesis of a determinant.

After the loss of Spain, ff15 reconquered by Wellington, the rising in Holland preliminary to the invasion and the manifesto of Frankfort which proclaimed it, he had to fall back upon the frontiers of 1795; and then later was driven yet farther back upon.

They pass into the refrigerator, where they are condensed and fall back as a condensed liquid through the meal, percolating it as they pass downwards, and reaching to the bottom of the vessel as a more or less saturated solution of oil in the solvent.

Public opinion, however, in Brandenburg was too strong for him, and he was compelled to fall back upon the Lutheran Formula and the religious policy of his father.

He smiled at her, understanding what it was to mourn the loss of a sibling.  As much as he missed Jade, he was glad he at least had Hannah to fall back on.  She had Katie's beauty – without the abrasive personality.

Pushing back an ugly thought that he might be trying to keep her mind otherwise occupied, she let her gaze fall back to the book.

On the 20th extreme destitution obliged the British to fall back on Badajoz.

My father, being self employed, had no dole to fall back on, no assistance from the state at all.

An * indicates the timeserver you currently are using, and a + indicates a good fall-back connection.

At least you have the viewfinder to fall back on in those circumstances.

The Bourbonists in Calabria, utterly disorganized, broke before the invincible red-shirts, and the 40,000 men defending the Salerno-Avellino line made no better resistance, being eventually ordered to fall back on the Volturno.

The emperor having beaten Blucher, the latter must fall back to rally and re-form, and call in Billow, who had only reached the neighbourhood of Gembloux on June 16; whilst on the other flank Ney, reinforced by D'Erlon's fresh corps, lay in front of Wellington, and the marshal could fasten upon the Anglo-Dutch army and hold it fast during the early morning of June 17, sufficiently long to allow the emperor to close round his foe's open left flank and deal him a deathblow.

Pushed back, as he had been in Spain, from bastion to bastion, after the action on the Beresina, Napoleon had to fall back upon the frontiers of 1809, and thenhaving refused the peace offered him by Austria at the congress of Prague, from a dread of losing Italy, where each of his victories had marked a stage in the accomplishment of his dreamon those of 1805, despite Lfltzen and Bautzen, and on those of 1802 after his defeat at Leipzig, where Bernadotte turned upon him, Moreau figured among the Allies, and the Saxons and Bavarians forsook him.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).

The result is that the authors too often fall back upon self-evident truisms to structure their work.

In fact I am thankful to have my state pension to fall back on.

If that is enough, your baby will fall back to sleep.

By talking calmly and patiently, you can provide that to your baby and your baby can fall back to sleep.

While other people may fall back on easy standbys, you can find an unexpectedly perfect gift.

Sound sleepers find this useful as often they wake up once, only to fall back to sleep again.

It's a different story if you have plenty of money in savings for emergencies even after paying your debt off, but if paying your debt means you have no money to fall back on in the bank then you should leave your money where it is.

By not having overdraft protection to fall back on, accountholders must pay close attention to their balances to ensure they do not overextend themselves.

It's good to have something else to fall back on if your life style changes.

That's why it's so important to have a strong emotional core, the essential you to fall back on.

When trouble within the ranks occurs, members have no other outside friendships to fall back on for comfort or support.

Many teens that contemplate on dropping out of school look at the GED as something easy to fall back on and think it is just as good as a diploma.

Don't fall back onto simple ice breaker type questions about their favorite color or food.

By having a staple of easy, last minute youth group games to fall back on, you can spend that hour counseling the student and helping him take his faith to a new level.

I can still fall back into that, but if I am truly feeling spiritual, I care for others, myself and the universe.

I believe that I have made progress in all these defects, but it is very easy for me to fall back into them.

In certain cases, it is too easy for the addict to leave the facility and fall back in with old friends and old habits.

After Heidi Montag fell a bit flat with her first music single "Higher," it seemed that she would just fall back on her status as reality show star on MTV's The Hills.

This is important because replacement parts for proprietary kits may be impossible to find once the kit is out of production, and there may be no generic equivalents to fall back on.

Bedwetting can wake the child during the night and the episode may lead to the child's inability to fall back asleep.

Wish-fulfilling dreams are ones that make you want to fall back into the dreaming state upon waking.

Alcohol can also make it difficult to fall back asleep after you wake up.

If you do love them, but they break as a result of defective craftsmanship or materials, you have a two-year warranty to fall back on.

As he starts to fall back down, quickly complete Gouken's Ultra Move.

If you think you may be interested in pursuing video game design, but are not sure it is your chosen career, it is a good idea to have a four-year degree from a major university to fall back on.

If they have children of their own, these offspring fall back into the child welfare system just as they did.

If your company's maternity leave policy only provides a portion of your salary, having savings to fall back on will ease the burden somewhat.

Games that don't require any special organizing can be great for using as a fall-back, should the festivities quieten.

Quizzes and word games can be a great fall-back for engagement parties.

It's considered a good luck symbol, so if you happen to be born in the year of the Rat, you have some excellent qualities to fall back on.

Only time will tell, but when age and injury take their toll, having your own TV show to fall back on isn't too shabby.

The snooze function could be a handy fall back for days when someone is exceptionally tired or fancies a lie in.

Female children, on the other hand, have two copies of the X chromosome, which often leaves them one normal X chromosome to fall back on to produce that essential protein, allowing proper development to occur.

If you find yourself on the diet roller coaster where you eat right for a few days or weeks and then fall back into your old eating habits, it may have to do with the diet you've chosen to follow.

At the urging of his father he learned the trade of carpentry so that he would have something to fall back on should acting not pan out.

For that amount of time, they would fall back into their old roles, with Alex in control.

Thus the south-west monsoon begins in the Arabian Sea with west and north-westerly winds,which draw round as the year advances to south-west and fall back again in the autumn by northwest to north.

The best part is you'll always have the original design to fall back on for days when you just feel like covering up.