Sentence examples for the drawdown is from inspiring English sources

The drawdown is a huge engineering feat.

He leaves himself only a bit of wiggle room — and says again that there won't be a "steep cliff" to jump when the drawdown is finally concluded.

Will Obama's "War is Over" speech have the effect of pushing it even further out of the minds of most American citizens and voters … even though the drawdown is over time?

When the drawdown is done and the Afghanistan war hits its scheduled end-date next December, the plan is for the Army to still be larger by 10,000 soldiers than it was on 9/11.

The sensitivity analyses for the drawdown illustrate that the drawdown is most sensitive to the well partial penetration.

A sensitivity analysis of the parameters, i.e., the specific storage Ss, w, n and Kr, indicated that the drawdown is not sensitive to them at early times, while it is very sensitive to these parameters at late times especially to the power index n.

The drawdown was kind of slow sometimes.

But the cables reveal that Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told Abdul Rahim Wardak, the Afghan defence minister, that the drawdown was not a political decision but a US military recommendation.

While the mechanics of the drawdown were often argued over bitterly, among American commanders as much as among American politicians, the basic aim of handing the security of Iraq back to its own forces — "We stand down, they stand up" — has been unwavering since Gen. George W. Casey was the American commander in Baghdad from 2004 to 2007.

– while in Iraq the convoys taking US military equipment out of the country as part of the drawdown are under threat from Iran-influenced Shia militias on the road south to Kuwait, and under threat from Sunni insurgents on the road west towards Jordan and Aqaba.

Approximate analytical solutions for the drawdown were obtained and the impacts of different parameters on the drawdown were analyzed.