1.   At an annual pre-Easter retreat, the bishop of the Madison Diocese had urged his priests to speak to their parishioners about it.

2.   Gingrich met with the full freshman class the following morning, before they decamped to Baltimore for their second annual retreat.

3.   It is the image of acrimony that the House is trying to buff clean with its annual retreat on civility.

4.   Jury-rigged ritual heralds the annual retreat of pagan hordes of tourists despoiling mountain paradise.

5.   Matthew Burke recently took the staff of his Encino accounting firm on their third annual retreat conducted by Arete Adventures.

6.   President Clinton and the other leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum are scheduled to meet for their annual retreat Tuesday at the University of British Columbia.

7.   That same year, he took Clinton to the Bilderberg conference in Germany, an exclusive annual retreat for international businessmen and political leaders.

8.   The bishops interrupted an annual retreat to respond to suggestions that they had erred in isolating the sect over disagreements on doctrine.

9.   The feminist emphasis is appreciated by the nuns who visit Wisdom House for annual retreats led by Sister Jane Silk.

10.   The partners have often held their annual retreat at the Doral Arrowwood resort in Rye Brook, N.Y..