With European export orders canceled en masse, Chinese factories are faced with the prospect of massive layoffs.

Sami was discharged from his treatment program.

Sami was waiting for Layla to be discharged from the hospital.

while you all get fat off layoffs.

Disarmament and repatriation of foreign armed groups

Of that number, 38,984 have been demobilized.

Group discussions during the workshop.

We should not therefore put the blame for the actual lack of agreement on any single delegation or group of States this is collective work and responsibility.

The first caseload was demobilized from the army and the rebel groups on a voluntary basis, followed by those currently identified within the army.

And this is a community project I visited recently in Toronto.

The Government continued to promote the demobilization of members of illegal armed groups.

When layoffs were necessary, black employees were the first to go.

The international community has a collective role to play in that regard.

The first phase, which ended in September 2004, saw the demobilization of 2,300 children.

Rather than resorting to extensive layoffs, firms had their employees work a partial week.

These are the most drastic temporary dismissals to take place in Finland since 2000.

The need for collective, timely, and decisive action is overwhelming.

She died in poverty, poor even among the poor, and was buried in a common grave.

There were reports of mass killings and scores of civilian deaths.

Dawn song is a communal chorus, particularly during the breeding season.

These abuses triggered a mass movement of people in dire humanitarian circumstances.

Early in 1647 the Long Parliament wished either to disband many of the regiments or to send them to Ireland.

Large systems are privatized without social welfare programmes for labour laid off.

Additionally, those who are found to be under 18 at the training stage are discharged from the military.

All had a policy whereby the prisoner could be released, but the period to be served varied considerably.

The process of demobilizing and disarming ex combatants of the Afghan military forces was finalized under Japanese leadership this summer.

There, too, a solution must be found through an inclusive and equitable collective security system.

The protection will be covered by means of the establishment of a collective fund separated from the existing social security fund.

It is important to point out that countries need effective demobilization and reintegration programmes for young people involved in armed conflicts.

In late 2004, the demobilization was initiated of approximately 3,000 members of the AUC.

Special emphasis has been put on demobilizing child soldiers within six months of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Q Pars Arts is a collective project where several people including some bloggers contribute.

First came the apocalyptic collapse of fascism as Hitler took Germany with him into a collective suicide.

Salaries in Bosnia and Herzegovina are regulated by a general collective contract and branch collective contracts.

Homicides were also alleged to have been committed by members of the security forces, as well as for mass and arbitrary arrests.

States shall not invoke derogation clauses to justify taking hostages or to impose collective punishments.

It is high time for an urgent collective effort to put an immediate end to that modern scourge.

Thirdly and finally, maintaining and enhancing programmes for the demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers are, in our view, of the utmost importance.

Between the mid 1970 s and the mid 1990 s, Australia had several mass shootings.

But an overarching collective commitment is needed to take advantage of this opportunity, and to achieve inclusive development.

New York Bay is the collective term for the marine areas surrounding the entrance of the Hudson River into the Atlantic Ocean.

Within the education community there's this discussion of, Should it just be the young teachers who get laid off, or the less good teachers who get laid off?

This makes it extremely difficult to let workers go, which makes employers reluctant to hire new people in the first place.

In that connection, also noteworthy is the demobilization of thousands of child soldiers in Afghanistan, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

A demobilization and reintegration programme led by UNICEF has seen a total of 4,756 child soldiers demobilized since the beginning of 2004.