Sentence examples for as a drawdown from inspiring English sources

You can nominate anyone to inherit your remaining pension fund as a drawdown account.

Older styles of pension schemes may not allow your beneficiaries to inherit your fund as a drawdown account.

General Caldwell reported to Levin that President Obama's West Point speech and the mention of July 2011 as a drawdown point when a reduction in US forces would begin, had a "very positive effect on the Afghan leadership".

The bulk of SOTG was withdrawn from Afghanistan in late 2013 as part of a drawdown of Australian forces, although some special forces remained after this date as part of the small Australian force maintained in the country.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has decided to freeze plans for further reducing Army forces in Europe and will maintain about 40,000 soldiers in Germany and Italy, nearly twice as many as had been envisioned under a drawdown that began two years ago, according to senior Pentagon and military officials.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Saturday that the United States should stick to its full counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan at least through this year, even as American forces begin a drawdown in July and some in Congress argue that the current mission is too expensive to continue.

The reopening of NATO supply lines is important for the United States military to support troops currently in Afghanistan, but also to help withdraw tons of weapons and matériel out as a major drawdown approaches in 2014.

In particular, Pakistan is reluctant to take on the formidable Haqqani network in the east that has been responsible for a spate of spectacular attacks in Kabul this year.There is also a danger of a "drawdown recession" as Afghan companies that have grown fat on contracts to support the huge ISAF presence in the country see their lucrative business wither over the next three years.

Without civilian support, a drawdown of American troops was inevitable, as was the fall of the South Vietnamese government.

Herein, reservoir water level (RWL), sediment-occupied ratio of reservoir volume (SOR) and rate of change of SOR (RCSOR) are adopted as three triggers of a drawdown-flushing-based sediment management policy.

Mr. Bush has been dangling that same as-soon-as-possible drawdown for years.