Meanings of make retreat in English

Your next step on this sinful road may make retreat impossible.

Like Cortes, he must burn his ships behind him, and make retreat forever impossible.

In case of disaster, did it make retreat more easy?

My message to you is, turn away from it, another step may make retreat impossible.

The men in their front ranks were often linked together so as to make retreat impossible.

We must strive to make retreat impossible, but we must not lose sight of Victor Amadeus.

She had burned her boats, and made retreat impossible.

And the fact that my wife had arranged to meet us at Hag's Head made retreat inconvenient.

The troops, however, remained in line of battle; but during the day information came in which made retreat imperative.

Then a shell burst plunk under the line behind the two foremost enemy trains, which made retreat for them impossible.

I went from time to time to make retreats, or, to be more accurate, vacations, in my House of Saint Joseph.

This consideration also makes retreat into the theory of an illegal praxis impossible, and renders the legitimacy of the actually subsisting indisputable.

And he bounded up a staircase, while Des Hermies pushed Durtal along in front of him in a way that made retreat impossible.

He was equally cordial in his relationship with other Orders, welcoming them gladly to his own house, and often making retreats in their

"Not that"-pointingto Behar Singh and speaking in clear, energetic English-"notthat has made retreat impossible.