How To Use Demob In A Sentence

This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries. Council on Hemispheric Affairs
They toast their epic efforts in a demob-happy frenzy. Times, Sunday Times
In 1946 he took his demob suit and became lecturer in medicine at the Manchester Medical School.
No one in this world is going to invest time here unless they see the country demilitarise and demobilise.
It is unlikely that the rebels will agree to demobilise.

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It was exalted in contrast to ‘uniformity of provision’, a state Milburn dismisses as the legacy from the years of ‘ration books and demob suits’.
Even while the military endgame played out in Abidjan, post-conflict development specialists were presumably drawing up plans for interventions such as disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, security sector reform, and resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons. Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern
We're bringing people in to be disarmed, demobilized and rehabilitated to a program that will give them new values and give them new skills.
P.S. I found that in times of depression, it paid to look at my “Rundown to demob” calendar. You Ain’t No Picasso « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Despite the problems, the governments of both Uribe and Santos have called the demobilization program a success. The Seattle Times
She went on to say that Obama should welcome progressive forces "to counter the establishment forces in this country" and that "he would be well advised in this next period to remobilize a base that he demobilized in favor of an inside-the-Washington-beltway governance, because he's going to need us. Joe Scarborough, Katrina vanden Heuvel Clash Over Obama (VIDEO)
`I'm still in the air force, though I'll be demobbed in a couple of months. THE OPEN DOOR
After being demobbed in 1946 he worked for a small publishing firm before taking up writing full time. Peter O'Donnell (1920-2010)
No significant demobilization is planned for 7/31; however plans are in place to demob Type 1 Engines starting on 8/1. Threat Eases as Telegraph Slows To a Crawl
A demob-happy Dr Rob joins in.
He still took orders from a voice in his head eight years after being demobbed from the army. Let The Dead Lie
Supposedly "demobilized" in 2006, the AUC has largely continued to carry out its drug-dealing activities and campaign of violence and intimidation against campesinos, indigenous peoples, stigmatized social groups such as homosexuals and prostitutes, labor organizers, critical journalists, and human rights advocates. PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
Do you remember going through the med centre when you were demobbing, hmm? Army Rumour Service
By 1948 over 8 million soldiers had been demobilized, yet labour still remained short.
She also served as chairman of the Ex-Servicewoman's Association, an organization which aimed to find suitable employment for demobilized women.
Foremost among these problems will be that of providing employment for the millions who will be demobilized from the services and from war industry. The I.L.O. Looks Forward
They return to their former ways, though perhaps in newly clandestine associations such as the murky and much feared paramilitary demobilisation, Medellín - and Colombia - are now presented with a worrying remobilisation. blows: desertions, the cross-border killing of commander Raúl Reyes at his camp in Ecuador and the death of co-founder Manuel Marulanda, and the humiliating rescue of its most high-profile prisoner Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
Clearly those attending today were in a demob happy mood knowing that an election is on its way so "let's party" On a serious point, poor Hattie is just a waste of space, an affluent Liebour Toff totally out of her depth. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
The plan has been for the rival armies to demobilise, to unify, and then to hold elections to decide who rules.
Next, only an augmented international security presence in regional centers, plus targeted reconstruction aid that provides incentives for demobilization will bridge the security gap.
A demob candidate less happy than McLeish would be hard to find, and though smiling, often joking and courteous as usual, there was no denying the sad state of mind which he is currently enduring.
It is unlikely that the rebels will agree to demobilise.
The picture was taken in the late Forties, when her father had been demobbed from the Royal Artillery.
Men were demobbed, but often found their wives and kids had changed while they were away.
His demob diary, counting down the days until his national service was over, was preserved as a piece of personal history.
Previous legislation forbade the provision of food aid to warring factions before they demobilised.
The plan has been for the rival armies to demobilise, to unify, and then to hold elections to decide who rules.
A lot of people kept coming through, new drafts as well as those being demobbed.
Me and Sel hadn't seen him since just after I was demobbed. MR STARLIGHT
They were also planning and preparing reception areas for disarming and housing combatants from a variety of armed factions that must demobilise in terms of a set of peace and ceasefire agreements.
He served until the war ended in 1918, and he was demobbed in 1919-and after ‘a day or two’ leave he returned to work on the railways.
Then he would come back for the final tests before demob -- the real one this time, and no mistake. THE OPEN DOOR
After World War II, the U.S. demobilized as quickly as it could.
He was demobilized in March 1946.
Forty years ago this summer, with the map of the Empire all but rolled up, the last British national servicemen returned to Blighty and swapped their battledress for demob suits.
Guerrilla groups have accepted the government's offer of amnesty and have begun demobilizing.
Forty years ago this summer, with the map of the Empire all but rolled up, the last British national servicemen returned to Blighty and swapped their battledress for demob suits.
She completed her doctorate on the reintegration of demobilized soldiers in Mozambique.
They hunt by chasing their prey from behind snapping at their tail to demobilise them.
It has promised to demobilise before, then gone back on its word, but this time it appears to be for real.
Other social forces and popular movements were co-opted or repressed during the period of military government, leading to their demobilization and fragmentation.
This dependency was in other sectors coupled with a kind of demobilisation or role confusion of organs of civil society. Umrabulo Series on Building the South African Women's Movement
After he was demobbed in 1946 the couple, who have no children, lived in London, where Ron was employed as a messenger by a national newspaper.
Next, only an augmented international security presence in regional centers, plus targeted reconstruction aid that provides incentives for demobilization will bridge the security gap.
With the end of filming in sight, he has the air of the demob happy.
At war's end, most nonregular units were returned to their home state and demobilized.
Third, there is also a potential continuing supply of mercenaries as regular soldiers are demobilized.
He served with distinction, twice being decorated for bravery, before being seriously wounded in the head in 1915 and demobilized in 1916.
The different factions had suggested they were ready to stop fighting and demobilise after getting sight of a historic deal presented to them Monday. ANC Daily News Briefing
Washington was trying to put Germany back on its feet while simultaneously demobilizing and turning to domestic matters.
UN peacekeepers would be deployed to patrol a cease-fire and assist in demilitarization and demobilization as well as to help provide a secure environment, so that exiled Tutsi could return. Bystanders to Genocide
Luanda generally blames such "banditry" on UNITA troops, with military sources charging that Savimbi still has more than 30,000 men in arms despite a claim in March that the former rebels had totally demobilised, turning his movement into a purely political opposition party. ANC Daily News Briefing
Günter Verheugen is looking a little more relaxed these days, though he's not demob-happy quite yet.
The government no longer had need for my services and the university was under great pressure to make room for the deluge of exservicemen as they were demobilized from the armed forces. John Pople - Autobiography
He craved to wake up and find he had been through the demob machine without the knowledge that made walking twice the effort. THE OPEN DOOR
The Afghan New Beginnings Programme, which focused on reintegration and demobilisation from 2003 through 2006, tried an approach much like the one currently being proposed. Louis Belanger: Too early for an Afghan amnesty?
I was demobbed early in 1946 and not long after I arrived home Sel got called up to do his National Service. MR STARLIGHT
`When the demob officer comes to talk to you about your case, he'll ask you where you think you caught TB. THE OPEN DOOR
Half a lifetime later and Brian Aldiss remains in Oxford, quite happy to see out his winter years in a leafy suburb of the city he first came to as a feckless war veteran in a demob suit.
Only a united Zimbabwe would ensure the "demobilisation" of such actions against the country. ANC Daily News Briefing
But there are no easy, inexpensive solutions to the process of demobilizing hundreds of thousands of combatants and armed men who know little more than fighting.
The army of some 5.5 million soldiers was demobilized, and military installations destroyed.
He claimed that Masetlha was working with Mantashe to "demobilise" the campaign to elect Mbalula as the next secretary general in 2012. Guardian Online
This policy has signified greater insecurity for women, because the so-called demobilisation of the paramilitary groups, who continue to control many regions of the country, has particularly affected women and girls," María Eugenia Ramírez of the Bogota-based Latin American Institute for Alternative Rights told IPS. AWID RSS Feed
The 40th anniversary of the last National Serviceman to be demobbed is being marked by a special weekend of parades, guards of honour and the unveiling of a commemorative plaque.
In spite of housing shortages, demobilization is now proceeding fairly smoothly, and there can be no doubt that all veterans will be suitably placed within a very short time. Conditions in South Africa
Hmmmm… tomorrow I shall mostly be demob happy, as it's a single day back at work before my week off.
The army was demobilised and without having lost a battle, the nation had lost the war.
The woods were just beginning to turn, the different trees springing into individuality again, demobilized from the uniform green of summer. Mrs. Miniver
As the western allies quickly demobilised after the war, the opposite was the case with the Soviets.
After being demobbed, Columbanus remembers his happiness standing on O'Connell Bridge, being back home and ready to marry and get on with his life.
Years ago when I was demobbed, I was temporally unemployed, so down to the dole house I went, stood in line for five minutes then did a 180, and then found work down on the farm, mucking out, still cannot stand the sight or smell of cow dung denim/jeans, then I found a way to get a decent income and had fun ever since. The Inside Story of the Dog Who Changed My Life « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
On Friday, Uganda said it signed an accord with the LRA for the rebels to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate into the army as a last step before signing a comprehensive peace deal to end more than 20 years of war. ANC Daily News Briefing
He said the process of disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating ex-combatants is gaining ground, with the total number of militia fighters now halved to about 40,000 or 50,000.
More than 62,000 former combatants have been disarmed and demobilized through the CIDA-funded Afghan New Beginnings Program.
One might almost think he's demob-happy and setting up a Brown administration for defeat at the polls. That Blair Roadpricing Email in Full...
Full-time students withdraw from college when mobilized for 12 months but are notified to demobilize early.
He argued that conscious anti-Semites, especially "the 'unadjusted' veterans," would identify unconsciously with the GIs: "just demobilized, ordinary, white native Protestant, 'our kind, '— a band of comrades with battle records, plagued by the unhappinesses and insecurities of that new, troubling No Man's Land between war and postwar. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking, demobilization and economic reconstruction.
Before my demob in 1965, I dreamed of settling down in York.
In the last year the Army has mobilized and demobilized, deployed and redeployed more than 350,000 reserve and active component soldiers at Army installations.
He is handing in his gun to the government, since they just had a peace process and his paramilitaries are demobilising.
He was recalled for duty in 1939, being demobbed in 1945 as an able seaman.
He said: ‘I'm a Dunkirk veteran and I'd just been demobbed a week when the disaster occurred.’
(on camera) For now, these reunions only be lasting for a couple of hours, and that's because these soldiers will be staying on this base to begin what the military calls the demobilization process. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2004
For the past week they've been demob happy, selflessly turning up to the opening of an envelope as long it involved wine and nibbles.
With the end of filming in sight, Schama has the air of the demob happy.
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has more than just extended amnesty for "demobilized" guerrillas; he's also given them jobs in the army. There Is a Military Solution to Terror
By the beginning of 1947 the United States had almost completed tile most rapid demobilization in the history of the world.
A "demobilization" camp for former Hutu soldiers in Mutobo, Rwanda Coming Home to Rwanda
He left the movie world to join the army, but when he was demobbed he resumed his career with a job at the Royal.
The demob suit also gave rise to the phrase ‘the full monty’ after Montague Burton, as some former soldiers were only given a two-piece suit, while others were given a waistcoat as well.
He starts off by saying that he should have been demobbed after 22 years in the Navy, but the Second World War meant that he had to continue his service.
`When the demob officer comes to talk to you about your case, he'll ask you where you think you caught TB. THE OPEN DOOR
By the time he was demobbed in 1945, he'd risen to be the regimental sergeant major of the Parachute Regiment.
As the western allies quickly demobilised after the war, the opposite was the case with the Soviets.
He said Angola had reached the point when soldiers would be quartered in camps and demobilized, which he called the litmus test for peace. ANC Daily News Briefing
The turbaned man sprang to attention, another demobbed soldier of the empire ready to present arms. Let The Dead Lie
The military itself was almost totally demobilised during this period.
They moved to a cottage on the outskirts of the city and eked out an existence on Trocchi's demob pay.
The number of convicts used in road gangs in Alabama increased rapidly in the late 1940s as demobilization increased the population of young men.
At 18, he joined his seven brothers in the armed forces and five years later they were all demobbed without injury.
demobilization of factories
They are nothing less than an attempt to demobilise the left's natural constituencies the working and progressive middle classes, the demographic majority in the UK. Letters: A recovery plan for Labour
She admitted feeling "very demob-happy" when he finally left the Tory front benches in 1999.
In a professional career that started after his demob from National Service in 1954 and ended in 1971 when Britain embraced decimalisation Cooper was twice named sports personality of the year and reigned longer than anyone else as British heavyweight champion. No bad words, just praise, for Henry Cooper as he loses his last fight
He gets out to reveal a cheap, shining suit once given to his father on his demob from the war, Brylcreem stains on the collar, his yellowing hair matching the nicotine on his fingers.
After being demobbed in 1946, he attended Camberwell School of Art, studying under John Minton, Edward Ardizzone and others. Smilby (Francis Wilford-Smith) (1927-2009)
They wanted to "demobilise" the ANC to become only an "electoral machine. ANC Daily News Briefing
The nation relied on volunteers to augment the regulars in the Continental Army, which demobilized rapidly after the war.
Third, there is also a potential continuing supply of mercenaries as regular soldiers are demobilized.
In the end though, he finds himself recording the activities of a retreating army, which in spite of political turmoil at home and some internal dissension within the ranks, demobilized almost as efficiently as it had mobilized.
When I was demobbed all firms were obliged to give you your job back, but because I was only 18 when I was called up I had to continue my apprenticeship until I was 22 years old.
Splinter paramilitary groups did not sign on to the agreement to demobilize.
The demob, TRC, and earlier beneficiaries of Special Pension experiences have left telling memories to these poor families. Speech by Lulu Johnson during debate on Special Pensions Bill of 2008
Campbell put the sea behind him when he was demobbed in 1920. Commander A. B. Campbell
We laid down our arms, we demobilised our soldiers and sent them home.
Having served all over Europe he was demobbed back to the US in 1946 and stayed there until he returned to Ireland in 1952.
The fighters are gradually demobilizing and in return getting light sentences for their crimes.
Some think the Swede has simply gone demob happy.
I dare say, while he was sitting in various holes in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy etc. he would have spent many a happy hour thinking about his 'Human rights'until his demob. in August 45. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Clement Atlee's government gave university grants to bright young working-class men with war service and, six weeks after demob, my father entered Cambridge to study economics. Family life
Are they all just a little demob-happy? Times, Sunday Times
He would in fact have been hard-pressed to discuss postwar monetary and foreign policy or domestic issues such as labor agitation and demobilization.
Presumably he must have been demob-happy.
After he was demobbed [demobilised from the army] he stayed for a while with his old friend in North Sydney, who was finishing his medical degree and would later go into practice.
They are to support disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of the former combatants, he said.
Demobilization and disarmament are, of course, the major tactics; but so is defunding.
GI fathers and their many advocates were particularly vocal critics of delays in demobilization. Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
Politically, everyone wants to demobilize reserve soldiers as quickly as possible following a national emergency requiring their presence.
Then, once agreement had been reached between the two countries, they would both demobilise their armies.
Veterans from across the district have loaned items from the war to the museum, including costumes, uniforms, demob suits, children's clothes and a selection of women's dresses, shoes and hats.
Weapons have been cantoned, troops demobilized, and territory exchanged. President Reports On Us Military In Former Yugoslavia
The war being over, troops in the Mediterranean were expected to be sent home and demobilised.
Operation Axe included the demobilization and disarmament of the Italian Army.
Agathon Rwasa said the demobilisation was a landmark BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
By the end of October, most of the mobilized reservists had been demobilized, but 9,428 still remained on active duty.
Within ten weeks of the implementation of this new system, 56 per cent of officers and 78 per cent of men eligible for release were demobbed.
On demob, he was given a wartime degree and went into the educational world as an administrator, working in many parts of the country until he finished up in charge of education in Keighley.
But as our parliamentarians get demob happy, the temptation to look to a future in light entertainment grows stronger.
He craved to wake up and find he had been through the demob machine without the knowledge that made walking twice the effort. THE OPEN DOOR
We know they've chosen us because we're Tutsi," a Burundian officer who asked to remain anonymous told AFP, adding "we are not refusing to demobilise but we are victims of mistreatment". ANC Daily News Briefing
I returned to Oxford - "demobbed" - in January 1919. Surprised by Joy
As president, Uribe provided the leaders and rank-and-file members of the terrorist paramilitary organizations with amnesty and protection from international prosecution as part of a process of "demobilization" of the paramilitary groups. Council on Hemispheric Affairs
After demob in 1946, Bobby returned home to West Pelton, to his parents and to his childhood sweetheart, Nora Sampy, who lived nearby.
Key points of the UN plan include disarming and demobilizing the rebel troops.
It is certainly very pleasant to consider that we shall have all these valuable assets in hand; but against them we have to allow, which the Chancellor altogether omitted to do, for the big arrears of expenditure and the huge cost of demobilisation, which is at least likely to absorb the whole of them. War-Time Financial Problems
Very few of them have actually finished a 90-day "demobilization" process -- after which the hard work at keeping them out of the war begins. Amnesty Deal Lures Only 3 Percent Of Taliban In One Year
immediate demobilization of the reserves
Secondly, I am demob-happy at the prospect of a fortnight's holiday (starting in less than two hours ' time), and am thus in no mood for cathartic purging.
I'm still in the air force, though I'll be demobbed in a couple of months.
The narrator of the piece mentioned that Blair seemed to be 'demob happy' so I wonder if anyone has a better recollection? Who's Counting When?
It might be an exaggeration to say that Henrik Larsson is demob happy.
Bill's demob papers from the RAF were also discovered intact in the case, which had been home to a family of mice.
The end of the war found him a not untypical figure among socialists of his generation, a dissenting sergeant agitating for demob. Archive 2007-05-27
Please understand that there was no talk of discharging me; no talk of demobilising me; no talk even of disembodying me. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
Whisper it gently, but Sir Alex Ferguson may be starting to become demob happy.
However, he said he was not "demob happy" and was preoccupied with the dissident groups that carried out the recent killings.
Breaking up large elements of the army also raises the possibility that demobilized soldiers could affiliate with ethnic or tribal militias.
They have been at the forefront of efforts to ban the recruitment and use of child soldiers, while encouraging sustainable networks to promote demobilization and reintegration of former child soldiers.
We are using established programs in a more coordinated, focused way to secure civil-service health-care professionals to replace demobilizing reservists.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero says the plane was "demobilized" in the StarTribune.com rss feed
At conflict termination, those forces would be disarmed, demobilized, and restructured as part of a broader transformation from war to peace.
I'm still in the air force, though I'll be demobbed in a couple of months.
Western diplomats say the disarmament and demobilisation of the brigades – and their integration into the security forces of the new government – is the biggest challenge of the coming months. Libya bows to calls for investigation into Gaddafi death
The plan originally called for 11,500 soldiers to be demobilized last year, 10,000 this year and another 10,000 in 2002.
It was 56 years to the day since Mrs Wilson was demobbed and she said: ‘It is a beautiful memorial and it has been a wonderful and very moving day.’
About half the new recruits are drawn from such factional forces, which are supposed to be demobilising.
It would be wrong to say that the increase of points for a drawn match from two to four has illuminated this demob-happy streak but it has certainly helped.
After his demob, Mr Harris worked as a plumber and his wife as a machinist.
That demobbed soldiers shall enjoy a just-for-once job assignment from the government and those who wish to find jobs on their own be given subsidy in one lump sum.
Once demobbed, he qualified as a chartered accountant and joined the family firm in 1949.
This is a significant event because it came on the same day that these brigades agreed they would demobilise.
Christie's most under-rated recurring characters are a sprightly young couple recently demobbed from the First World War forces and in search of a distraction from their tedious new lives.
It's not just the thought of gritty sand infiltrating every bodily crevice; it's the sight of all the cardigans and sweaters, the knee-length socks and tightly knotted ties, not to mention the thick khaki flannels of the demobbed soldier. The big picture: Blackpool beach, 1948
Male. 1.75 + m height . Healthy . Nice appearance and good communication ability . Demobilization soldiers have priority.
Then we were posted straight to Germany and I was there a few months before I was demobbed in 1947.
Then he would come back for the final tests before demob -- the real one this time, and no mistake. THE OPEN DOOR
More than 650 mostly Tutsi soldiers in Burundi refused to demobilise on Monday in the small central African country, citing unfair ethnic treatment. ANC Daily News Briefing
I think that the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants have been a success.
Bill had served in the army during the First World War and, after he was demobbed, spent his gratuity on some cabins and some poultry he kept on a three-acre field his mother had left him.
immediate demobilization of the reserves.
Here, in the first half, they appeared anything but demob-happy. Times, Sunday Times
They were former soldiers from Mozambique's long civil war and, like the other 90,000 or so demobbed men, they were getting $15 a month from donors, along with some funding to start businesses. A revolution in global aid to the poor
It may be a small victory for peace in the volatile area, but some here say winning the peace and convincing these angry young men to disarm and demobilize might have just come too little too late.
After his demob, Mr Harris worked as a plumber and his wife as a machinist.
I am getting demob happy.
Within the U.S. government the military clashed with civilian agencies over its role in noncombat missions such as demobilization and policing. Nation-Building 101
Demobilisation funded Attlee's NHS; by withdrawing from east of Suez, Wilson boosted pensions; the last droplets of the cold war's thawing helped even warrior Blair to rejuvenate the welfare state.
Indeed, criticisms of such decisions as going to war with a relatively small number of troops, demobilizing (or not working to remobilize) the Iraq army, and extending de-Ba'athification beyond the most senior level are frequently made and widely accepted for good reason. Richard N. Haass: The Iraq War in Perspective
They were both 16, surrounded by demobilised ex-servicemen. Times, Sunday Times
Distinguished but disillusioned, Lawrence was demobilized as a lieutenant colonel in 1919.
Both sides have agreed to demobilize 70% of their armies.
Mercenary activities are particularly appealing to people (usually young males) who have difficulty coping with demobilization and who still yearn for a life of excitement.
For example, when two neighboring tribes need to demobilize, the presence of peacekeepers in both of those tribes' lands might help ease anxiety over whether by demobilizing they're opening themselves up to attack by their neighbors.

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