Greece will also have to downsize its public sector, reform tax administration, and take other steps to modernize its economy.

Firms and workers would need to adjust as reform forces some industries to downsize or close and allows others to expand.

Freer trade would force some industries to downsize or close, although more industries would expand, and for some people and communities, the transition would be difficult.

They could have bought a smaller house had they known that their hours would be reduced, but now it is difficult to downsize the one that they did buy.

In Southern Darfur, 800 weapons were collected by the Government of the Sudan over the period of review as part of its effort to downsize the Popular Defence Forces.

It shrank its budgets and began to downsize, and, while it was handed some new responsibilities in the meantime surveillance over currency manipulation, in particular its deliberations proved largely irrelevant.

The EU s stricter labor rules are a well known and often cited example. European labor market rigidities mean that it is difficult in many EU countries to downsize a company.

Egypt could not truly set out on a path of democratization without first amending its constitution to downsize the Pharaonic powers of its president and set limits on his term in office.

Unfortunately, six years after the establishment of UNMIK, those prerequisites had not been met and he was astonished by the proposal to downsize the Mission in terms of both its composition and budget appropriation.

Six months previously, the Under Secretary General had told the Committee that the functioning of the two Tribunals was at risk and that the Secretariat had decided to freeze recruitment and downsize their operations.

(a) The increase in the volume of cases that started in 2002 has been continuous and is expected to last through the 2006 2007 biennium given that several missions are expected to either close or downsize

For example, The Economist s recent portrait of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shows that Italy continues to be stymied by labor rules that make businesses reluctant to expand beyond 15 employees (after which it becomes hard for a firm to downsize).

Today, as the Fed documents clearly demonstrate, the IMF has become marginalized not least because of its ineffective policy process. Indeed, at the outset of the crisis, the IMF, assuming that demand for its resources would remain low permanently, had already begun to downsize.