Sentence examples for gradual drawdown from inspiring English sources
But such a move would raise the question of how the United States can avert an increase in violence in Iraq while carrying out a gradual drawdown.
But she added that a memorandum of understanding could last as long as 10 years and include provisions for a gradual drawdown of American troops.
The Obama administration has said it plans to begin a gradual drawdown of troops from Afghanistan this summer, with a complete withdrawal to be completed in 2014.
Mr. Hollande has suggested only a gradual drawdown of just one-third of the country's installed capacity, despite his pledge to close the Fessenheim plant.
The president's tried, he tried, but he also failed to secure a responsible and gradual drawdown that would have better secured our gains.
That's why, with 49 of our allies in Afghanistan, we've agreed on a gradual drawdown so we're out of there by the year -- in the year 2014.
Incremental and gradual drawdowns of troops over many years is not the correct response to a failed war.
The Fed hasn't made a policy decision about the taper, but Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a rough outline in his latest press conference in which he envisioned a drawdown of quantitative easing starting this year, given a gradual decline in the unemployment rate and continued economic growth.
In Kilcullen's view, allowing the surge to run its course into next spring, while doing as much damage as possible to Al Qaeda in Iraq in the meantime, would make it likelier that a gradual withdrawal of troops would not leave behind the chaos of previous drawdowns — from Falluja and Mosul in 2004, from Tal Afar and Baquba in 2005, and from Baghdad in 2006.
This drawdown will continue.
