It is entitled 'The Harcourts; Illustrating the Benefits of Retrenchment and Reform,' and is from the pen of a lady.
We need domestic retrenchment and reform in all the departments of home.
Retrenchment having been insisted upon by England and France, it was resolved to reduce the force to some eight thousand, and orders of dismissal were accordingly issued.
Retrenchment is the word even where caste customs of long standing are involved.
The old Liberal idea of peace and retrenchment again is recognized by the Socialistic, and indeed by the whole body of social reformers, as equally essential for the successful prosecution of their aims.
Driven back, and refused a parley, by which they sought to entice the Frenchmen from the fort, the enemy began to construct a retrenchment facing the redoubt, determined to begin the siege.
Here is a considerable retrenchment in the scope of our philosophy: no material world, no soul, and (in the proper sense of the words) no God and no knowledge.
At any rate, he aimed instinctively at economy of terms, retrenchment in belief, reduction of theory to the irreducible minimum.
I can see an opportunity for its candidates to pose as the apostles of retrenchmentand reform.
This alone would suggest that not retrenchment only, but an improvement also in the system of the Council's business, was intended.
Peace andRetrenchment must continue to be inscribed on the Liberal banner as well as Reform.
At no moment in recent years was it more desirable to urge a demand for retrenchment in the national expenditure, and probably at no moment could such a demand be urged with more chance of good result.
And so it is the bounden duty of the Liberals to raise their old banner of Retrenchment once again.
The liberal party plead for economy and retrenchment in the army and the navy, in the church and the state.
In addition to the reforms already mentioned, he is the advocate of Universal Suffrage, of a dissolution of the union of Church and State, of Free Education, of Retrenchment in all departments of the Government.
His plans of retrenchment had deprived Greenwich of much of its trade, hence his seat was threatened.
It was characterized as "a policy of which peace, progress and retrenchment were the watchwords.
A public meeting was held at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, at which it was agreed to petition the Legislature to effect a retrenchment of the public expenditure, and a reform of the House of Commons.
At a special meeting of the Norwich Corporation an address was ordered to be presented to the Prince Regent, praying for "the utmost retrenchment of the public expenditure consistent with the welfare of the State.
See First Report of the Committee on Retrenchmentin the Public Expenditure, 1915 (Parliamentary Papers, Cd.
First Report of the Committee onRetrenchment in the Public Expenditure, 1915 (Cd.
But the Jesuits would not hear of any retrenchment of their power or privileges.
William Pitt made his first speech in the debate which Burke had excited, and argued in favor of retrenchment with the eloquence of his father, but with more method and clearness.
But what was a retrenchment of two hundred thousand pounds a year, when compared with the vast expenditures of the British armies in America and in India?
To this should be added a faithful collection of the revenue, a strict accountability to the Treasury for every dollar collected, and the greatest practicable retrenchment in expenditure in every department of Government.
The head of the new government promised retrenchment as soon as the government was formed.
And, therefore, the work of retrenchment must be a well-considered and a gradual work.
Mrs. Riggs’s bright and confident faith lifted up all our hearts bowed down as they were by discouragement in view of the vast work to be accomplished and the retrenchment in funds.
There can not be any further retrenchment of the Indian work if it lives at all.
The Minister was vilified in the cheap weekly papers as a joint conspirator with those foreigners who christened their treason by the fair names of retrenchment and order.
Impolitic retrenchmenthas touched other positions than these.
Miss Nightingale, as a disciple of Lord Lawrence, was wholly opposed to an aggressive policy which, moreover, had the effect of causing retrenchment in all departments except the military.
The Sanitary Commissions had been reduced on the ground of expense to two officers (a President and a Secretary) in each case, and a further retrenchmentwas now in contemplation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retrenchment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
