Sentence examples for a drawdown in from inspiring English sources

In Afghanistan, the American presence ramped up in 2009, followed by a drawdown in 2011.

In seven of the last eight years, world grain consumption has exceeded production, forcing a drawdown in stocks.

Four years ago, Representative Ron Paul of Texas was the only Republican presidential candidate raising concerns about the cost of the war and urging a drawdown in troops.

Though Republicans have criticized Mr. Obama's setting a timetable of mid-2011 for starting a drawdown in Afghanistan, they have largely supported his sending 30,000 additional troops.

But a decline in vehicle production so far in this quarter because of shortages of parts from Japan could cause a drawdown in inventories and weigh on growth in the April-June period.

Those operations will expand significantly when the State Department takes over more tasks as American troops withdraw from Iraq at the end of the year and prepare for a drawdown in Afghanistan beginning next summer.

After joining the Senate in 2005 Mr. Obama spoke in favor of a drawdown, including in a speech on Nov. 22 of that year.

Sediment from Lake Mills (the reservoir for the Glines Canyon Dam) was tested in 1994 during a "drawdown" experiment (in which the lake was drained to simulate dam removal), and three sediment samples were taken from Lake Aldwell in 1993, with no PCBs detected.

"A drawdown occurring in the middle of a fighting season when we're still giving our military that same mission, we don't want to do something that would put them in jeopardy, we want them to fulfill the missions the safest way possible," Mr. Ryan said.

WASHINGTON — President Obama's team is busy these days managing a troop drawdown in Iraq and a troop escalation in Afghanistan, hoping in both cases to build governments that can manage their own countries.

Dannatt faced controversy over his outspokenness, in particular his calls for improved pay and conditions for soldiers and for a drawdown of operations in Iraq in order to better man those in Afghanistan.