The Oslo agreement provided for a phased withdrawal from these areas over the next few years.

"If it sticks for 12 hours, then there will be a phased withdrawal from the city," he said.

No public relations campaign could succeed in painting an early phased withdrawal as anything but a strategic defeat.

They are still talking about a phased withdrawal and an arbitrary exit date.

Throughout 2006 a phased withdrawal of the Craven stock took place.

In addition, Israel proposed a phased withdrawal over several years.

Iraq said yesterday that it planned to begin a phased withdrawal of its occupying troops on Sunday.

By this, I don't mean a phased withdrawal, let alone the leap in the dark of total abandonment.

Following the phased withdrawal, this has eventually been reduced to 70,000.

Sydney remained on station until at least 29 May, when a phased withdrawal began.