Sentence examples for major drawdown from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, US forces appear poised for a major drawdown.

The reopening of NATO supply lines is important for the United States military to support troops currently in Afghanistan, but also to help withdraw tons of weapons and matériel out as a major drawdown approaches in 2014.

In interviews and briefings this week, some of the generals pulled back from recent suggestions, some by the same officers, that positive trends in Iraq could allow a major drawdown in the 138,000 American troops late this year or early in 2006.

Sadr was in the government while our first major drawdown was accomplished.

The Zagreb agreement heralded a major drawdown of Italian occupation forces from large areas of the NDH, including areas of Bosnia south of the Italian-German demarcation line, as well as Kordun, Lika and Dalmatia, and the Chetnik leaders believed that this would reduce the area in which they could operate with Italian consent.

But last week, Mr. Paul was joined explicitly by another contender, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah and the Obama administration's former ambassador to China, who said that the cost of a continued military presence was a leading factor in his belief that a major troop drawdown should begin in Afghanistan.

Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a former governor of Utah who just finished a two-year stint as ambassador to China in the Obama administration, said Tuesday that the cost of a continued military presence was a leading factor in his belief that a major troop drawdown should begin in Afghanistan.

"Nobody knows if the trends are durable in the absence of national reconciliation and in the face of major U.S. troop drawdowns in 2008".

Over its one year deployment, the corps oversaw the responsible drawdown of major components of US Forces in Iraq.

Drawdown is a major concern for geothermal developers who must forecast reservoir performance and consider its effect in their techno-economic analysis.

Sen. Dodd's warning, a drawdown in card issuances by major financial institutions, slowing consumer spending and an uptick in national savings could serve to temper MasterCard's results next time around.