Sentence examples for drawdown means from inspiring English sources

To watch tonight: President Obama's second Oval Office speech, tonight at 8 P.M. Obama will talk about how he kept his promise to withdraw troops from Iraq and discuss "what this drawdown means to our national security efforts in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia and around the world as we take the fight to Al Qaeda," said his press secretary, Robert Gibbs.

Obama has announced plans to begin withdrawing troops in July 2011, but Arianna argued that the proposed drawdown means little since it is "contingent on conditions on the ground".

The day before the Oval Office speech, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs talked to reporters about "what this drawdown means to our national security efforts in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia and around the world as we take the fight to Al Qaeda".

It doesn't sound like a drawdown meant to bring the number below where it was before Obama's escalation.

Fewer than 10 per cent realise that opting for an income drawdown product means that as their pension fund remains invested, it can be paid out to the person of their choice when they are no longer around.

It's a form of income drawdown, which means that instead of buying the usual pension annuity on retirement (where you receive a specified income at regular intervals) you can keep your old age savings invested in whatever you like, drawing an income from them each year.

Small units are inherently at greater risk than large units, and as the drawdown proceeds, their means to protect themselves, move and communicate must be maintained, increasingly by Iraqi support groups rather than American ones.

A White House fact sheet noted that even with the buildup in Afghanistan, the drawdown in Iraq means the total number of uniformed Americans in the two countries will drop to 146,000 by the end of August, down from 177,000 when he took office.

Drawdown must not mean write-off.

The tight schedule set for US military drawdown by President Obama means there is no time to lose.

And our drawdown in Iraq also means that today there are tens of thousands fewer Americans deployed in harm's way than when I took office.