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
More men are avoiding military service, while calls to demobilize exhausted frontline soldiers have grown.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
He’s also negotiating with the most powerful of Colombia’s armed groups – from leftist guerrillas to smaller trafficking mafias – in an effort to get them to demobilize simultaneously.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
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
The summons to demobilize was met by a point-blank refusal, when the fleets of the powers—Russia and France excepted—entered on the scene, and the blockade of the Greek coast was declared.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by Stillman, William James
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
Prisoners serving in the army would be integrated into special units for the duration of martial law, meaning that they would not be demobilized until the end of the war.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
In 2003, he joined a peace process under which paramilitary leaders demobilized in exchange for reduced sentences.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
“E. O. Lawrence personally never quite demobilized after the end of World War II,” the Rad Lab physicist Wolfgang “Pief” Panofsky would observe many years later.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
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
Besides demobilizing the armed forces and preparing for the homecoming of servicemen and women, he also had to guide the nation through the process of returning to a peacetime economy.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
On June 9, 1916, it was announced from Athens that the king had signed an order demobilizing twelve classes of the army, amounting to 150,000 men.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
