How To Use Demobilize In A Sentence

  • The nation relied on volunteers to augment the regulars in the Continental Army, which demobilized rapidly after the war.
  • Weapons have been cantoned, troops demobilized, and territory exchanged. President Reports On Us Military In Former Yugoslavia
  • Then, once agreement had been reached between the two countries, they would both demobilise their armies.
  • Politically, everyone wants to demobilize reserve soldiers as quickly as possible following a national emergency requiring their presence.
  • 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.
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  • We laid down our arms, we demobilised our soldiers and sent them home.
  • Splinter paramilitary groups did not sign on to the agreement to demobilize.
  • 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.
  • Third, there is also a potential continuing supply of mercenaries as regular soldiers are demobilized.
  • The war being over, troops in the Mediterranean were expected to be sent home and demobilised.
  • They wanted to "demobilise" the ANC to become only an "electoral machine. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • 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
  • The military itself was almost totally demobilised during this period.
  • 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
  • As the western allies quickly demobilised after the war, the opposite was the case with the Soviets.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • No one in this world is going to invest time here unless they see the country demilitarise and demobilise.
  • When war ended, hordes of soldiers were demobilized and war industries slumped.
  • Cadet, one of a batch of ex-officers demobilized from the Army at the end of World War I; a Cadet was the lowest form of life in the Colonial Administrative Service. Empire Into Commonwealth
  • 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.
  • Both sides have agreed to demobilize 70% of their armies.
  • Distinguished but disillusioned, Lawrence was demobilized as a lieutenant colonel in 1919.
  • They were both 16, surrounded by demobilised ex-servicemen. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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
  • This is a significant event because it came on the same day that these brigades agreed they would demobilise.
  • The plan originally called for 11,500 soldiers to be demobilized last year, 10,000 this year and another 10,000 in 2002.
  • At conflict termination, those forces would be disarmed, demobilized, and restructured as part of a broader transformation from war to peace.
  • French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero says the plane was "demobilized" in the StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Breaking up large elements of the army also raises the possibility that demobilized soldiers could affiliate with ethnic or tribal militias.
  • 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
  • By the end of October, most of the mobilized reservists had been demobilized, but 9,428 still remained on active duty.
  • 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
  • She completed her doctorate on the reintegration of demobilized soldiers in Mozambique.
  • He was demobilized in March 1946.
  • After World War II, the U.S. demobilized as quickly as it could.
  • 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.
  • The plan has been for the rival armies to demobilise, to unify, and then to hold elections to decide who rules.
  • Previous legislation forbade the provision of food aid to warring factions before they demobilised.
  • It is unlikely that the rebels will agree to demobilise.
  • The plan has been for the rival armies to demobilise, to unify, and then to hold elections to decide who rules.
  • They hunt by chasing their prey from behind snapping at their tail to demobilise them.
  • She also served as chairman of the Ex-Servicewoman's Association, an organization which aimed to find suitable employment for demobilized women.
  • By 1948 over 8 million soldiers had been demobilized, yet labour still remained short.
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • It is unlikely that the rebels will agree to demobilise.
  • No one in this world is going to invest time here unless they see the country demilitarise and demobilise.
  • 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
  • It has promised to demobilise before, then gone back on its word, but this time it appears to be for real.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • More than 62,000 former combatants have been disarmed and demobilized through the CIDA-funded Afghan New Beginnings Program.
  • Full-time students withdraw from college when mobilized for 12 months but are notified to demobilize early.

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