retrenchment

How To Use retrenchment In A Sentence

• Yet he recognized that he needed active assistants to break through the lines of bureaucratic retrenchment, and he often used plenipotentiaries to investigate, control, and bully on his behalf.
• Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
• When every other industry is seeing a slowdown, cost-cutting and retrenchment, the gaming "behemoths" - Sony Ericsson, Zapak. com and Microsoft Xbox 360 have joined hands. Www.indiantelevision.com
• The retrenchment of our railways has to stop.
• The directors defended the retrenchment of two expatriate general managers.
• The UK has lost a major bookstore chain in the last two years, and the remaining one has had to undergo retrenchment. Times, Sunday Times
• The title article calls for “retrenchment” in the “humanitarian missions” abroad that are consuming the country’s wealth, so as to arrest the American decline that is a major theme of international affairs discourse, usually accompanied by the corollary that power is shifting to the East, to China and maybe India. Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World
• The retrenchment of social programmes has been accomplished by the politics of stealth and the politics of strength.
• Suri's book says that the idea of nation-building may encounter periods of retrenchment, but it always makes a comeback. News
• They argue that this will most likely lead to a retrenchment of orthodoxy.