How to Use "retrench" with Example Sentences

1. Is the credit crunch forcing firms to retrench directly ?

2. International firms could decide it is not cost-effective to keep open their other european offices and retrench to london .

3. The downturn in profitability will redraw the industry landscape , analysts and executives say , forcing traditional producers to retrench and consolidate , and accentuating the rise of china as an aluminium powerhouse .

4. But is it already time to retrench ?

5. Next , we need to retrench , to reconsider the direction of research on this disease .