Sentence examples for scale back the efforts from inspiring English sources

Between 2005 and 2015, the unnamed companies ― in energy, manufacturing, finance, insurance and media, with workforces ranging from 1,500 to 36,000 employees ― adopted progressive climate policies with much fanfare, only to quietly scale back the efforts in the years that followed.

The "skinny repeal" plan floated by Senate GOP leaders would scale back the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act from an Ohio-class battleship salvo to the plink of a BB gun.

Mr. Giuliani recently made a concerted effort to get back into the mix in the early states with a heavy advertising campaign in New Hampshire, but scaled back the effort when it failed to lift his standing in the polls.

After nearly three weeks of searching, Sheriff's Department officials said they were scaling back the effort.

She passed up a chance to reassure senators who are concerned that she intends to scale back the Education Department's efforts to enforce civil rights laws in schools.

Proposed cuts to next year's NASA budget would drastically scale back the agency's efforts to explore Mars, likely costing hundreds of Jet Propulsion Laboratory workers their jobs.

But Obama is now making his decision amid a difficult reelection effort and when the killing of Osama bin Laden has made some lawmakers argue that the time is ripe to dramatically scale back the U.S. war effort.

Yet even with the potential difficulties, Trump will have the administrative tools to massively scale back the Obama administration's efforts to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, former federal officials say.

No intelligence effort can ever keep us 100% safe, but to stop or scale back the NSA's special intelligence efforts would amount to unilateral disarmament in a war against terrorism that is far from over.

Now, one of the immediate questions he faces is whether to accelerate or scale back those efforts.

Now, the Democratic-led House is certain to reject the administration's efforts to scale back the agency's reach and ambition.