Voorbeelden van retrenchment

• The worsening economic environment has seen a sharp retrenchment in electronics sales.

• Plans for such a significant fiscal retrenchment come at a vulnerable time for the world economy.

• Bank employees have suffered from mass retrenchments.

• One fifth of the sample had experienced unemployment through retrenchment in the manufacturing industries.

• There might be an employee possibly in his own borough, who had been displaced because of nationals retrenchments.

• I hope that whatever retrenchments are forced upon us in the future, these four establishments will be kept on.

• I said that we must exercise all the retrenchments that are possible—or words to that effect.

• We are prepared to make certain retrenchments in the social services.

• We ran into cuts in capital receipts spending, moratoria and retrenchments.

• I entirely agree with the retrenchments which are being made.

• We all know about the difficulties of the airlines and the retrenchments in that business.

• The further evil might also follow, and education itself, which is of primary importance to the country, would be prejudiced by retrenchments in other directions detrimental to educational efficiency.

• Thus, retrenchment in some areas of the welfare state may be accompanied by expansion in others.

• Advocates of retrenchment must persuade affected officials to transcend their special interests for the good of common goals.

• Retrenchment has not been easy, of course, and has often been less than successful, but in all these cases the process was essentially endogenous.

• Path dependency made it difficult to achieve either retrenchment or structural change within the existing budget.

• As always in times of retrenchment, elected officials have needed to win the goodwill of voters and interest groups for these unpopular cutbacks.

• Moreover, while the welfare state is under pressure, it does not automatically follow that governments will seek to undertake retrenchment in all programme areas.

• Furthermore, in some programme areas the losers from retrenchment are diffuse and the gainers are focused.