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
While the federal government may demobilize, the onus now has been pushed to the property owners to either finish the job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
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
Austria until the eleventh hour—when it was too late—refused even to discuss the Servian question and never offered either to demobilize or to cease its attack upon Servia.
From The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia by James M. (James Montgomery) Beck
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
Most had already been demobilized, with the US military saying 100 Guard troops remained deployed at the time.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
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
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
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
Four days later they signed an armistice at Salonika, handing over complete control of the Bulgarian railways and communications, demobilizing the Bulgarian armies, and surrendering their arms and ammunition.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
