Sentence examples for drawdown to a from inspiring English sources

The decision to declare a "pause" in Britain's planned drawdown to a force of 2,500 troops from its current level of 4,000 was politically awkward for Prime Minister Brown, who laid out the plan in October.

The modelled abstraction rate is adjusted to limit the drawdown to a predefined level (usually the uppermost water strike) at the end of a designed production period.

If not, the report argues that "a more significant drawdown to a narrower military mission would be warranted".

If there is not such progress, concludes the report, then "a more significant drawdown to a narrower military mission would be warranted".

If history is any indication, this would not be the first time Mr. Putin has used a military drawdown to resolve a deadlocked political scene such as the one in Syria.

That all suggests that if Speaker Pelosi is "serious" herself, she ought not to limit her efforts to support a "serious drawdown" to giving an interview in the Huffington Post.

In Connecticut, for example, Joseph I. Lieberman -- who was one of only six Senate Democrats to vote against a June resolution calling for a troop drawdown to start this year -- is battling an antiwar challenger who is trying to deny him the party's nomination for a fourth term.

Obama doubled-down by committing tens of thousands more troops to show he was no wimp, only to set a date for a drawdown to show he was no warmonger.

The official said a drawdown to roughly 10 brigades would enable the Army to give many soldiers at least a year at home for every year they are deployed, an objective of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

By the end of this year, the United States will remove more than 23,000 troops from Afghanistan, beginning a protracted drawdown to at least nominally end more than a decade of overseas wars that have killed nearly 7,000 US service members and left thousands more wounded, disabled, and traumatized.

The general's message: the Army's five-year drawdown to 490,000 soldiers from a post-9/11 peak of 570,000 would be accomplished mostly through attrition; and unlike the last time the Army shrank the ranks — in the 1990s after the collapse of communism and the first Iraq war — the service would do all it could to not lose military expertise earned the tough way since Sept. 11, 2001.