How to Use demobilize in a Sentence

demobilize

verb
Definition of demobilizenext
Synonyms for demobilizenext
  • Both leaders agreed to demobilize their armies and sign the peace treaty.
  • Two of the 20 disarmed and demobilized weeks later in the town of Bouar were women.
    — Cassandra Vinograd, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Under the terms of the deal, thousands of rebels demobilized and the group is now a political party.
    — NBC News, 27 May 2018
  • The firm has until July 6 to demobilize its crews and clear the work area, Baker told lawmakers in the email Monday.
    — oregonlive, 29 June 2021
  • Worse, by the time the victors and the defeated met in Versailles, thousands of Allied troops had already demobilized and returned home.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • And to keep—try to push out and then demobilize some of the Shia militia forces operating in the country right now, which is counterproductive for the U.S. forces.
    — WSJ, 17 July 2017
  • Fire crews will be demobilized over the next few days as containment increases and the fire is extinguished.
    — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
  • Over the next 24 hours, his team will demobilize the nine vessels, medical personnel and other equipment on the scene.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • The county also declined to pay thousands of dollars in set-up and demobilizing costs, records show.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The blaze has held steady at less than 1,000 acres, and state fire marshal’s office personnel are scheduled to demobilize Monday.
    — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2020
  • His efforts to demobilize armed groups and improve the military’s training suffered from delays and a lack of resources.
    — Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The ex-guerrillas turned in thousands of weapons and demobilized after more than 50 years, helping bring Colombia’s homicide rate down to historic lows.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Even before details of the arrest were known, FARC leaders condemned it as a set-up that would undermine almost 7,000 demobilized rebel fighters' trust in the peace process.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • While the vast majority of the FARC demobilized under a 2016 peace deal, there are dissident factions.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Yet Americans of that era had a deep and vocal dislike of standing armies, and Washington moved swiftly to demobilize the Continental Army once the war was over.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The virus now demobilizes the very system that facilitated its spread.
    — On Barak, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Santa Clara County officials announced plans to demobilize their mass testing and vaccination sites by the end of the month.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The bill, for instance, leaves open the possibility of demobilizing troops after three years of service.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • All Red Cross shelters and animal shelters are in the process of being demobilized and no overnight evacuation shelters are available at this time.
    — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Zelensky has also asked the military and parliament to prepare a law to demobilize those who have been fighting for nearly two years.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The regime are attempting not only to coerce a few activists but to broadly demobilize the opposition.
    — Jason Scheideman, Washington Post, 9 May 2017
  • Scott says if a firefighter on a wildland blaze tests positive for Covid-19, plans are being devised to demobilize an engine crew or entire strike team from the fire line and place them in quarantine.
    — Paul Vercammen, CNN, 2 Aug. 2020
  • There have been regional efforts in recent years to demobilize the M23, but its leaders have complained about the slow implementation of a peace accord and accused the Congolese army of waging war against it.
    — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • There they were all medically examined thrice in 72 hours for signs of influenza before they could be demobilized.
    — Howard Phillips, Quartz Africa, 15 Mar. 2020
  • To achieve lasting peace, Libya needs not only to find its way out of the current political crisis, but also to demobilize a generation of young men who have grown up knowing little but war.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2022
  • Many firefighters had been demobilized, but about 698 personnel remained in the region.
    — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 8 June 2017
  • But its most potent power is the ability to demobilize, by instructing progressives that Democrats aren’t serious about climate change and aren’t worth their time, money, and effort.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Last week, the conductor was safely and successfully installed, utilizing a smaller rig (see Figure 1) that has since demobilized from site.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Authorities said the group was dressed in civilian clothing and returning a rural zone where members of another rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, had demobilized as part of a 2016 peace deal.
    — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The federal and state governments should give all militias that do not qualify as indigenous police a grace period to disarm and demobilize.
    — Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2018

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