Sentence examples for for a drawdown from inspiring English sources

(What he did do after becoming a candidate was to propose legislation calling for a drawdown).

I dont know what the right charge is for a drawdown service at the moment".

He proposed legislation calling for a drawdown after he began running for president.

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.

Those operations will expand significantly when the State Department takes over more tasks as American troops withdraw from Iraq at the end of the year and prepare for a drawdown in Afghanistan beginning next summer.

Mr. Bush's claim that things were going so well in Iraq that he could "accept" his generals' recommendation for a "drawdown" of forces was a carnival barker's come-on.

Instead, the Democratic senators are now discussing legislation that might set nonbinding goals for the completion of a drawdown that would shift most remaining American forces into support roles.

Open image in new window Fig. 3 log log plot of pressure drop and pressure derivative of a drawdown test for a dual-porosity model with a vertical well using Discrete Fracture Model.

Under Mr. Obama's plans, a review of progress is set for later this year, before a 2011 deadline for beginning a drawdown of troops.

Though Republicans have criticized Mr. Obama's setting a timetable of mid-2011 for starting a drawdown in Afghanistan, they have largely supported his sending 30,000 additional troops.

Some folks in Washington who want the war and occupation in Afghanistan to continue indefinitely are trying to pretend there has been no commitment made for a significant drawdown, or indeed any drawdown at all, in the summer of 2011.