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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of demobilize.

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Examples

  • The government no longer had need for my services and the university was under great pressure to make room for the deluge of exservicemen as they were demobilized from the armed forces.

    John Pople - Autobiography 1999

  • Cadet, one of a batch of ex-officers demobilized from the Army at the end of World War I; a Cadet was the lowest form of life in the Colonial Administrative Service.

    Empire Into Commonwealth 1959

  • Foremost among these problems will be that of providing employment for the millions who will be demobilized from the services and from war industry.

    The I.L.O. Looks Forward 1944

  • The woods were just beginning to turn, the different trees springing into individuality again, demobilized from the uniform green of summer.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries.

    Council on Hemispheric Affairs 2008

  • Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has more than just extended amnesty for "demobilized" guerrillas; he's also given them jobs in the army.

    There Is a Military Solution to Terror 2008

  • French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero says the plane was "demobilized" in the

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Supposedly "demobilized" in 2006, the AUC has largely continued to carry out its drug-dealing activities and campaign of violence and intimidation against campesinos, indigenous peoples, stigmatized social groups such as homosexuals and prostitutes, labor organizers, critical journalists, and human rights advocates.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2009

  • Supposedly "demobilized" in 2006, the AUC has largely continued to carry out its drug-dealing activities and campaign of violence and intimidation against campesinos, indigenous peoples, stigmatized social groups such as homosexuals and prostitutes, labor organizers, critical journalists, and human rights advocates.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2009

  • Supposedly "demobilized" in 2006, the AUC has largely continued to carry out its drug-dealing activities and campaign of violence and intimidation against campesinos, indigenous peoples, stigmatized social groups such as homosexuals and prostitutes, labor organizers, critical journalists, and human rights advocates.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2009

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