demobilize
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The oilfield-services company, formerly known as Schlumberger, had to demobilize operations in a number of countries in response to customer actions to safeguard personnel and facilities, Le Peuch said Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The Army Corps and its contractors initially aimed to demobilize by Jan. 8, 2026, the one-year anniversary of the fires, but federal cleanup efforts finished much earlier than expected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026
Petro has pushed for what he calls a “total peace” that would demobilize all of the country’s remaining rebel groups as well as its drug trafficking gangs.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
To achieve lasting peace, Libya needs not only to find its way out of the current political crisis, but also to demobilize a generation of young men who have grown up knowing little but war.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
I shall exhibit a paper covered with seals to a scribe at the G.M.P., who will utter a few lamentations as a matter of form, and demobilize me with much grumbling.
From General Bramble by André Maurois
It demobilizes, distracts, and depresses those who want to do better.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
Baker won plaudits for the Central American plan that demobilizes the contras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such sluggishness would scarcely reduce unemployment, which stands at 7.3% and could climb even higher as the Pentagon demobilizes the armed forces and slashes military contracts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. mobilized to fight World War II, then rapidly demobilized after it ended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Although some dissident guerrilla groups remain active, the deal brought about a transformation for Colombia -- about 13,000 fighters and collaborators demobilized and returned to civilian life.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
The JEP was established as part of a 2016 peace agreement between the state and the now demobilized FARC, which ended the rebel group's role in a conflict that has killed more than 450,000.
From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2023
Mancuso, 59, was one of the rural paramilitary bosses to most eagerly embrace reconciliation efforts when he and some 30,000 other right-wing fighters demobilized under the 2005 Justice and Peace law.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
When the enlisted women were demobilized, they had to sign a pledge promising they’d do just that—not say anything about what they’d done.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Overprotected by parents in the physical world and underprotected in the virtual one, Generation Z has become ill-equipped to face and overcome crises while suffering from the demobilizing effects of depression and anxiety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Jeronimo would not detail what Los Shottas would get out of demobilizing other than “the tranquility of the people.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
“There are a lot of state resources in the field that have been decreasingly utilized that we are demobilizing over time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
The bright side of all this is that far from demobilizing Muslims, it has coincided with a surge in Muslim civic engagement.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2018
We shall yet be faced with the question of demobilizing a considerable part of this fleet into private hands, or frankly acknowledging that we operate it for other reasons than interest on our investment.
From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
