The number of officials to be retrenched will not exceed five or six.
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The capital balance today, including special loans for earlier projects abandoned or retrenched, is now over £80 million.
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Many social services departments are experiencing large funding gaps, which means that they are retrenching many of the services that they might offer.
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In the past decade, banking services have retrenched out of rural areas.
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If it slims down and retrenches too much, however, how will it meet demand when it increases, as we hope that it will?
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There is the old business of retrenching, saving and economising in any way.
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Not only is purchasing power to be curtailed, but road-building, housing and the like are to be retrenched.
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We are heading for a shortage of milk and a retrenching agricultural industry.
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I say that whatever services are retrenched, this service should not be retrenched.
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In 1923, provision was made that any men who were retrenched were due for compensation, and in every case they were looked after.
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I think we can all notice that the life of luxury is extending rather than retrenching.
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The grounds alleged are that the company refused to reinstate 93 men retrenched last year or to discuss with the union the company's estimate of men surplus to requirements.
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Like many other industries, farmers are retrenching.
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A few days later the government retrenched the planned nuclear phaseout after the industry pushed for reconsideration.
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The church is now retrenching after its period of high growth and hundreds of units have been decommissioned since 1998.
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