Retrenchment on one front is likely to be accompanied by expansion elsewhere.
He resigned from the cabinet in 1927 but resumed his post two years later and again met strong opposition to his acceptance of the warships' limitations imposed by the 1930 London Naval Conference; the opposition increased when he formed a committee to reorganize the army as part of a general retrenchment brought on by the Great Depression.
But Margaret Thatcher became prime minister that year, and her administrations imposed a general moral retrenchment on television.
The long-term health of the UK's research base and of the economy as a whole should not be jeopardised by a retrenchment on current spending commitments.
The belief here is that, unlike with other cuts, no pragmatic justification is required: a hard-grafting majority are angry with a workshy minority, and want retrenchment on principle.
This will force a retrenchment on the part of consumers and lead to the postponement of many investment decisions.Significantly weaker external demand will result in a sharp contraction in export volumes in 2009 for the first time since 1996.
George Osborne, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, ended months of reticence on exactly how he planned to fix the public finances by offering a grim menu of fiscal retrenchment on October 6th.
There's a facile contention that President Trump — hostile to free trade pacts and skeptical of grand military alliances — is an isolationist, an advocate of American retreat and retrenchment on the global stage.
Granted, critics say that some of the rulings -- like banning ephedra -- were years in the making, but other people note that unlike, say, the Environmental Protection Agency, the F.D.A. has not seemed in retrenchment on regulatory matters.
A wholesale retrenchment on Wall Street and in related professions is being compounded by uncertainty in tourism-related businesses, which usually start hiring in February to prepare for a flock of visitors in the spring and summer, the data showed.
