| At some point, one argument runs, households will have to retrench, slowing consumption and therefore economic growth. |
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| If the United States were to experience a deflation in housing prices, consumers would be forced to retrench. |
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| If it is necessary to retrench employees, packages will be determined according to the law. |
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| By necessity, economies will have to retrench and become more local, more self-centered. |
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| Rising losses led to a restriction of new bank funding, forcing the company to drastically retrench and restrict lending. |
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| When troubles start, they understandably retrench their consumption and begin to build savings in anticipation of dimmer times to come. |
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| A slower economy in turn, would cause businesses to retrench labor, increasing unemployment and slowing consumer spending further. |
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| Brown will meet his closest lieutenants to retrench and thrash out some way of turning a deteriorating situation to his advantage. |
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| We see market conditions worsening as financial services firms retrench still further. |
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| At the same time, in anticipation of a slowdown, businesses retrench and through their actions they produce one. |
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| There are various reasons, then, why many citizens have supported right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state. |
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| Companies invest when interest rates are low and capital is easy to raise, and then retrench savagely as rates rise. |
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| The authorities began to retrench the extent of freedom extended to the press. |
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| Their instinct is to hold their ground rather than retrench, advance rather than retreat, intimidate rather than negotiate. |
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| Now it may not even get a proper theatrical release in the US, as the Weinsteins attempt to retrench by trying a VOD premiere. |
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| Households will retrench as unemployment rises and those with jobs fear they may lose them. |
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| Organizations can choose to retrench, or they can choose to prepare for success and leadership roles. |
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| Nevertheless, the need to retrench has engaged us in some hard analysis in the past months, and we have made some difficult trade-offs. |
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| Test for operational integrity well before use is required to provide time to retrench if faults arise. |
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| When hearing it, it does not wish to provoke, neither does it retrench into comfortable habits. |
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| Some want to retrench faster than that, and some even argue for total disengagement from Europe. |
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| Budget pressures may also cause GSCs to retrench and to focus funding on a more narrow range of discipline activities. |
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| Yet when orderbooks from emerging countries began to shrink, GTM-Entrepose was forced to retrench to European markets. |
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| It is not the state, it is often not the major enterprises, which indeed tend rather to retrench. |
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| Slovakia: Subsidies for new jobs and reduction of employment taxes for employers that might otherwise retrench workers. |
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| Winners increase production, and export more, while losers retrench or disappear, and export less. |
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| Like almost everyone else, Suncor's initial response to the global economic situation was to retrench and regroup. |
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| Unfortunately, the extent of the downswing will be proportional to boom-time excesses, and the profligate consumer sector will be forced to retrench. |
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| Old and outdated equipment is also a factor in the decision to retrench. |
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| If these borrowers ever get underwater on their mortgages, they will almost certainly pull back on spending, turn risk averse and generally retrench. |
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| That is a poor return on his past effort and, it is possible to hope, continuing interest in the environment. The downturn should have spurred Mr Cameron not so much to retrench as rethink. |
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| Second, the chancellor is an ardent believer in expansionary fiscal contraction: the idea that as you retrench the public sector, the private sector will automatically and immediately step in to fill the gap. |
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| Although true dialogue is itself highly 'ethical' in its operation, there are particular devices that you can use to reduce the risk that people will retrench into their starting position or become adversarial. |
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| But how is it that we can just decide as the NDP has decided that this is enough, that we are going to leave these people, and we are going to allow the Taliban to retrench because that is surely what will happen. |
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| This leads the community to retrench and become risk averse, which invites complaints by politicians that the community is fecklessly timid. |
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| That was a big lesson — you have to learn to be tolerant of failure, because if you are intolerant of failure, your company will retrench and not be innovative. |
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| Senior Management turnover and turbulence, severe cuts in government funding, box office problems, and the lack of a coherent artistic vision all led the NAC to gradually retrench. |
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| Real residential investment, which has fallen at a double-digit annual rate for four consecutive quarters, will likely continue to retrench through year-end. |
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| The next day it was time for the Prime Minister to retrench. |
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| Worried about the steady rate of retrenchment, it announced that employers who wish to downsize their workforce should lay off foreign workers first before they retrench locals. |
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| The financial crisis of 2009 has led venture capital investors to retrench, favoring even more strongly ventures closer to market over those in the early stages of development. |
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| Where Governments retrench and the formal private sector is unable to pick up the slack, the informal sector becomes the source of employment of last resort. |
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| Airlines continued to retrench and restructure their own operations during 2005 and successfully filled more seats with passengers on fewer aircraft. |
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| The conservative stance taken on maturity guarantees paid off as the increase in capital and reserve requirements for guarantees caused competitors to retrench. |
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| When the economy slowed, the company was forced to retrench. |
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