On this second front, he is beating no retreat.

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He went to a retreat of Republican House members last week where he told them, reportedly, there were no press in the room, that if he watched his poll numbers, he would lie in a fetal position on the floor.

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Florida's law states that a person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force ... to prevent death or great bodily harm.

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Security spokesman Alejandro Poire said there would be no truce with the cartel, which he said was "in retreat".

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Mr Rawls makes no retreat from his previous criticisms of unjust institutions when he argues that liberal-democratic governments may not use these coercive means to foist liberal democracy on decent but illiberal peoples.

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He offers no change - nothing to take the country forward - just a retreat into the dogma of the past.

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He said the guerrillas were pinned down for the moment but there would be no retreat.

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Now Gordon Brown has also warned this week, saying that there will be no retreat to the soft options, the narrow politics of failed policies of the past and he was aiming that at the Deputy Leadership candidates and I wonder whether he was aiming it at you.

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