How To Use Retrenchment In A Sentence

  • Capitalism, in the form of greedy and reckless banking, has certainly contributed to the present need for public retrenchment and unwelcome cuts. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a significant speech last week, Shirley Williams damned parts of the hastily recooked bill as "confusing, obscure and ambiguous", and argued cogently that muddled policy at the top is compounding the difficulties of managers charged with overseeing retrenchment on the ground. The malady lingers on | Editorial
  • The union is protesting against what it calls the retrenchment of 30 teachers in the sprawling township. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The halfway report argued that the Government has put in place a bold programme for reform underpinned by ambitious targets for financial retrenchment. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cuts may not be only a temporary downsizing, but rather a long-term retrenchment of the nation's second-largest transit system. Chicagotribune.com -
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  • The coalition government took office amid economic crisis and the armed forces are no exception to the need for financial retrenchment. Times, Sunday Times
  • They say the manner in which the retrenchment was done is unfair and unconstitutional.
  • Reactive techniques like reorganization, retrenchment, and restriction are the natural enemies of organizational innovation.
  • While there have been numerous retrenchments over the past few years, the current workforce is the foundation upon which the future will be built.
  • But If American consumers are in long-term retrenchment mode, a value-added tax that discourages consumption and encourages savings will further depress the consumer-spending component of GDP. When It Comes to Others' Big Tariffs, U.S. Is a Patsy
  • The second element must be causally referable to the first, which is to say the termination of employment, the retrenchment, must be on account of or as a consequence of the redundancy of position, not some other circumstance.
  • The most recent annual figures show evidence of a retrenchment by the non-local developers.
  • Or will such a zealous embrace of fiscal retrenchment tip the economy back into recession?
  • “History teaches us,” writes Bradford DeLong, “that when none of the three clear and present dangers that justify retrenchment and austerity—interest-rate crowding out, rising inflationary pressures on consumer prices, national overleverage via borrowing in foreign currencies—are present, you should not retrench.” Beyond the Crash
  • When our flight was in its fourth month, we heard rumours about retrenchment of the programme.
  • Where it is not a question of outright retrenchment, natural attrition is allowed to follow its relentless course and vacant positions are simply not being filled.
  • Yes, there must be short-term retrenchment, sacrifices by management and labor, termination of unprofitable product lines and hard choices that must be shared by all. Save the Auto Industry, The American Way
  • Retail trade fell, precipitating a drop in wages and retrenchments.
  • However, the alliance would necessitate the short-term retrenchment of some Airlink cabin staff and cut-backs in cockpit personnel. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • This unfortunate situation brought about the retrenchment of numerous employees and the closure of some lodges along the river.
  • The thousands of supernumeraries in the Eastern Cape who cost the province R1 billion a year are not facing retrenchment in the immediate future.
  • Additionally, this long-term retrenchment measure illustrates that the Conservatives are beginning to think in terms of governing rather than opposing. Further, stronger, faster
  • The division also operates the Outreaching Placement Service which offers registration service at the workplace to the affected workers in major retrenchments .
  • Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
  • Reactive techniques like reorganization, retrenchment, and restriction are the natural enemies of organizational innovation.
  • In a time of retrenchment defence cuts are inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The delayering thrust in organizations is said to occur due to technological change, increased global competition, and retrenchment during recessions.
  • Once things slowed down, retrenchment became a serious business just as health care and education expenses began to shoot upwards.
  • Nor could the president give a convincing answer to the obvious question of how the reforms will be paid for at a time of economic retrenchment. Times, Sunday Times
  • The railwaymen were the next to threaten a strike against retrenchments. Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 8
  • The Government has a strong case for fiscal retrenchment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or will such a zealous embrace of fiscal retrenchment tip the economy back into recession?
  • The finance ministers had managed to limit the impact of fiscal retrenchment somewhat by an expansive monetary policy.
  • Does it imply a widespread retrenchment from multilateralism? Times, Sunday Times
  • These cuts will entail serious retrenchment in Europe's farming sector and they are at the limit of what is socially tolerable and economically possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • He gives me hell in querulous falsetto, and drops down to the dung-hill harem where his claws sink in ... Retrenchments.
  • Some retrenchment is suggested by Edward's household later sharing accommodation with Elizabeth and Mary. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • He said that employees are to be repositioned within the company and hopefully there will be no retrenchments.
  • Due to globalisation, closures and large-scale retrenchments are taking place.
  • Economic retrenchment is certainly necessary for countries that have lived beyond their means. Times, Sunday Times
  • It may be doubted whether one of these retrenchments, involving a strict revision of officers 'allowances known as "batta," was considerable enough to be worth the almost mutinous discontent which it provoked. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)
  • I think you're going to see a retrenchment of US embassies in Africa.
  • Indeed, it appears a major period of retrenchment is already in progress.
  • His retrenchment had not left him materially impoverished.
  • The retrenchment of gas imports has assailed the country's northern mining district.
  • In case of retrenchment or disability due to accident, the premium is waived.
  • HARRIS: All right, as we try to get more familiar with this Greenspan lexicon, he mentioned the word retrenchment maybe 10, 15, 20 times in the span that we listened to yesterday. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Fed Chairman Greenspan Testifies Before House Budget Committee - March 2, 2001
  • The administration's distancing from Northern Ireland is part of a conscious pattern of diplomatic retrenchment.
  • Financial difficulties tell only part of the story of the retrenchment of the Guggenheim empire.
  • Their production control struggles were a powerful response to economic retrenchment.
  • He oversaw the retrenchment of the national army during an unstable period.
  • There was no retrenchment to be made, for military inspectors ran from day to day through the hospitals, and watched over the furnishment and the service of the various houses. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
  • You talked about excesses and imbalances and the need for retrenchment.
  • The combination of adverse weather and declining sales led to retrenchment by many cooperatives.
  • If there were not enough volunteers for retrenchment packages, Telkom would go ahead with retrenching workers.
  • He dismisses what in his own view is the most fundamental retrenchment of government power in our time—the abolition of the draft in 1973.
  • A particularly salient feature is a territorial retrenchment of the north.
  • The pittance paid out in compensation for retrenchment has provided barely a few months subsistence, with former employees being thrown into abject poverty.
  • They argue that this will most likely lead to a retrenchment of orthodoxy.
  • Suri's book says that the idea of nation-building may encounter periods of retrenchment, but it always makes a comeback. News
  • The retrenchment of social programmes has been accomplished by the politics of stealth and the politics of strength.
  • 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 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 directors defended the retrenchment of two expatriate general managers.
  • The retrenchment of our railways has to stop.
  • 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
  • Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
  • Labour has argued that the fiscal retrenchment is choking off the recovery. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has also codified a number of issues such as retrenchment and dismissal which were previously major strike triggers.
  • Lack of fuel and replacement parts has led to the reintroduction of animal traction for agriculture in a retrenchment to a preindustrial past.
  • Retrenchment has, regrettably, been postponed one time too many.
  • The tangled scalar geographies of welfare retrenchment and workfarist institution building cannot be collapsed into a single scalar narrative.
  • Even in the midst of retrenchment, he recommends that companies forge ahead.
  • Municipality administrators who allow councillors to block the suspension of municipal services of defaulters can face legal action and retrenchment.
  • There is little in today's credit availability environment that would lead me to believe retrenchment is imminent.
  • One is that the country will look at the fiscal retrenchment ahead and decide instead to default on its debt. Times, Sunday Times
  • She also noted that as a result of restructuring and retrenchments, a lot of people had been left jobless.
  • The outlook remains grim, not least because the fiscal retrenchment has barely begun on the other side of the Atlantic. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • In his spring budget he will need to reinforce his commitment to retrenchment.
  • The division also operates the Outreaching Placement Service which offers registration service at the workplace to the affected workers in major retrenchments .
  • Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
  • These disputes of right involve matters relating to retrenchment, discrimination, and unlawful strikes.
  • Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
  • Retrenchment is written up as evident as the prophetic words of fire upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace -- _To let -- to let -- to let_. Olla Podrida
  • The salient point here is that the retrenchment was plainly not forced by tight money or credit.
  • None of the parties disputes the need for fiscal retrenchment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Almost daily, we hear of further retrenchment and more job cuts in an effort to lower inventory levels.
  • The stipend is equivalent to a dancer's monthly salary paid to board members to attend one-off meetings to discuss the dancers' possible retrenchment.

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