Sentence examples for downsized from inspiring English sources

The coalition rapidly downsized Prevent and shifted it to a police-led initiative.

He said it could be set to increase as older homeowners with equity in their properties downsized, but that an improving mortgage market would mean the proportion was unlikely to grow.

There's the totally un-Googleable Seventeen who, weirdly, have 14 members, and Apeace, who had 21 members until June this year, when they sensibly downsized to 15 – coincidentally, the exact number of people you can fit in a minibus.

The IoS, which downsized in October 2005, was the only Sunday quality title to record an increase in circulation both year on year and on the previous month.

Both lost their jobs when those industries downsized and sent the majority of contracts overseas.

DEREK LOWE, recently downsized chemist, makes excellent sense about outsourcing Connecticut, where I live, used to have a reasonably thriving ironworking industry, but it didn't survive the discovery of cheaper ore deposits.

When combined with a turbocharger (a supercharger driven by exhaust gases), Fiat engineers talk of producing a "downsized" two-cylinder engine that performs like a bigger four-cylinder one, but with fuel savings of some 20%.

The question for the future, one that no historian can answer, is whether the relative decline of America means that the dreams of individual Americans will need to be downsized too.

Like many relics of the cold war, it has been mercilessly downsized.

But the area's big employers left or downsized long ago.

In "The Effects of Organisational Downsizing on Product Innovation", an article published in California Management Review in 1995, Deborah Dougherty and Edward Bowman said that downsized firms lose the ability to carry out a crucial final stage in the process of bringing a new product to market.