Sentence examples for is retrenchment from inspiring English sources

The national mood is retrenchment — perhaps not cynicism or isolationism, but at least a wary and pragmatic realism.

"Whatever the cause, the later days of the empire were marked by discouragement and fear, by what has been well termed 'a failure of nerve.' The Roman Empire was like a declining business, whose program is retrenchment and retreat, whose ventures are desperate, whose employees can only shrug their shoulders and hope that the old enterprise will last out their time".

Gilpin says HP's current enterprise-software strategy is retrenchment into territory where it has more credibility.

"When people realised these were hard problems, there was retrenchment.

Local stations across the country suffered mightily in 2009 when there was retrenchment from advertisers, especially from those in the automotive category.

Over the past couple of seasons there was retrenchment but this season goals are up again to the extent that if the average is maintained it will be the highest-scoring season in 20-team Premier League history.

However, not all processes are retrenchment oriented; Cefis and Marsili (2005) emphasize that growth-oriented process innovations particularly have a strong effect on survival chances.

Throughout the American economy, retrenchment is begetting retrenchment.

Subsequently, Morrow et al. (2004) find industry conditions to significantly determine retrenchment success, stating that cost retrenchment is only positively related to improved performance in declining industries.

It is a retrenchment, not a referendum".

The third installation is a retrenchment.