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
A delegate for Los Shottas told The Associated Press that the group hopes for peace, but would only demobilize if every single armed group in Colombia also sets down their weapons.
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
Santa Clara County officials announced plans to demobilize their mass testing and vaccination sites by the end of the month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
On July 31 Russia mobilized her entire army, which led to Germany's ultimatum that Russia demobilize within twelve hours.
From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various
It demobilizes, distracts, and depresses those who want to do better.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
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
Baker won plaudits for the Central American plan that demobilizes the contras.
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
“SLB demobilized operations in a number of countries in response to customer actions to safeguard personnel and facilities,” Le Peuch said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
In 2003, he joined a peace process under which paramilitary leaders demobilized in exchange for reduced sentences.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
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
“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
“A final plan for demobilizing the remaining sites is being prepared.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
The 3.4% decline in 2020 was still the biggest annual decline for GDP since an 11.6% drop in 1946 when the country was demobilizing after World War II.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
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
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