Sentence examples for in a downsizing from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Kight's case, he was unemployed for the second half of 2007, after losing an earlier job he had at a different electronics manufacturer in a downsizing.

Like the ex-Boeing auditor, this woman had worked for many years for the same company, and had lost her job in a downsizing.

Disability services have been further cut in a downsizing of the Human Rights Commission.

Still, when Mr. Nandigobe lost his job at FXall a few months later in a downsizing, they refused to see the situation as bleak.

Regarding "Plenty of Students, Not Enough Staff" (cover, Feb. 18): In 1988 I was let go in a downsizing by a company after more than 25 years of service.

Re "In a Downsizing, Loyalty Is a Two-Way Street" (The Right Thing, April 15), in which Jeffrey L. Seglin discussed the business ethics of laying off employees: The column brought to mind the spirit of the industrial consultant W. Edwards Deming, who believed that layoffs should start with management, because management is most responsible for whatever is prompting the layoff.

In 2010, Ms. Harmon was laid off from her job as a human resources administrator for a trucking company in Tucker, Ga., during a downsizing.

We talk about investing in infrastructure: Why not help a downsizing Detroit bootstrap its recovery by tearing down empty eyesores and replacing them with affordable housing?

Cheryl Champagne was 60, with 25 years as a finance manager, when she took an early retirement buyout package from a downsizing Hartford Life Insurance Co. in September 2009.

Nestled in its folds is a small monitor on which you can watch two bulldozers in a junkyard downsizing the vehicle — a performance in itself.

Yet many if not most of these companies are operating in a "downsize-and-distribute" mode of resource allocation.