Sentence examples for Economic retrenchment from inspiring English sources

The festival arrives during a painful economic retrenchment across Europe that has drastically cut into government grants for the arts.

But if there is no significant economic retrenchment over the coming year, the head winds buffeting Republicans could be reduced.

Despite the economic retrenchment and a late spring freeze that hurt their yield this year, they had their first profit.

Whoever eventually agrees to take up the post faces an unenviable task, having to deal with linguistic tensions against the background of economic retrenchment.

The news came at the end of a week that showed the economic retrenchment that began in the second quarter has spilled over into the summer.

My approach was relatively inexpensive and seemed fitting for a moment of economic retrenchment in a blessed, cursed, bailed-out country.

Rapid growth in China and India has pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, sustained expansion has spread from Asia, where rapid catch-up has a long history, to South America, where halting growth and economic retrenchments were more the norm.

When China's leaders launched an economic-retrenchment program in the fall of 1988, they did not seem to have their heart in it, and the lectures on austerity seemed to fall flat on the ears of the officials who were called upon to put the measures into effect.

But among voters, the unemployment rate remains one of the most recognized barometers of economic progress or retrenchment.

LOS ANGELES — After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence in its future, California is showing the first signs of a rebound.

The wider economic situation dictated retrenchment and significant savings.