Sentence examples for despite the drawdown from inspiring English sources

Administration officials insist that those efforts will continue, despite the drawdown.

Despite the drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. drones and other surveillance aircraft are in short supply.

He continued to be employed, despite the drawdown of the navy following the Peace of Amiens, and received command of the 74-gun on 27 January 1802.

He said flights of RPVs, or remotely piloted vehicles – the Air Force term for drones – have remained at a consistent pace in 2013, despite the drawdown of ISAF combat forces as Afghan forces take over combat missions.

Attacks in 2010 dropped by 20 percent from the previous year, despite political uncertainly and the drawdown of American troops to fewer than 50,000, from twice that figure in 2009, the general said.

This has been highlighted by Gordon Brown's reluctance – despite the British drawdown from Iraq – to agree to the request of UK commanders' to send 2,000 extra troops to join American reinforcements in Helmand.

President Barack Obama has planned to slash the number of US troops from about 9,800 to 5,500 before he leaves office in 2017, despite calls from former commanders and envoys to halt the drawdown.

The drawdown was kind of slow sometimes.

The drawdown is a huge engineering feat.

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Yet the Fed may go ahead with the drawdown anyway.