Sentence examples for retrenchment it from inspiring English sources

The American Folk Art Museum's dramatic retrenchment — it sold its architecturally ambitious West 53rd Street building to the Museum of Modern Art after 10 years and moved back to its original, smaller space on the Upper West Side — has been a cautionary tale for small and medium-size art institutions.

For all its ills, Ireland has form when it comes to retrenchment: it cut debt sharply in the late 1980s.

In times of austerity and welfare state retrenchment, it is crucial that women's voices and perspectives are included in the process.

It's hard to imagine that Self's picturesque words need any illustration, but in a world so flattened by recession and dreary retrenchment, it is refreshing to be rewarded with such extravagant fare.

After decades of retrenchment, it is hard to remember the burst of fresh ideas that accompanied the council, which took place from 1962 to 1965, and the years immediately following.

From the outside, the old studio system seemed to run effortlessly, its gears slicked and slippery smooth, but in truth it was always plagued by cycles of uncertainty and retrenchment; it was a perpetual mutating machine.

Faced with what is likely to be its first quarterly loss, Singapore Airlines said yesterday that it would lay off 414 employees who are based in Singapore in its biggest retrenchment since it began flying in 1972.

Selling retrenchment, when it is truly needed, will be hard enough politically without it coming as a German diktat.

"Hard Candy" is a retrenchment, but it's a typically savvy one.

So when the orchestra took the stage recently, only moments after each of the musicians had been handed a "retrenchment" letter, it was to say goodbye.

In an era of fiscal retrenchment, does it make sense to spend taxpayer's money on ever-more elaborate airport scanners, or on Alzheimer's research?