retrenchment

Business people said the retrenchment might not go far enough.

You were to be let go as part of a general retrenchment.

Thus the retrenchment will begin in the fall of 1996.

When you have paid us our price, there will be need of retrenchment.

One has to expect retrenchments at a time like this.

But it has not been completely a period of retrenchment.

Similar retrenchment has hit the air force and the navy.

This was during an era of economic and political retrenchment.

Whether he can actually do anything about it, retrenchment or not, is another question entirely.

But he would not say whether the universities might face retrenchment next year.

Yet, clearly we have now entered into a period of retrenchment.

The company's retrenchment comes when the city's office market is already crippled by too much space.

His foreign policy can be summed up in one word: retrenchment.

Most importantly, we need to fight back the forces of retrenchment.

The result could be still more painful retrenchments in government spending.

Since then, and particularly under the Soviets, there has been nothing but retrenchment.

By 1938, with only seven students in the graduating class, retrenchment became necessary.

The announcement is another sign of global retrenchment in the field.

Consider the magnitude of the retrenchment set out in the Budget.

In all, it was a day of retrenchment for Russian tennis.

Now, however, the growing financial pressure is causing a retrenchment in this practice.

University officials say that given what the campuses have been through this year, there is little left short of retrenchment.

However, the film quickly fell victim to China's cultural retrenchment.

Many people were let go as part of the overall retrenchment."

The most drastic retrenchments were made by the Government and public bodies.