The phrase "divest by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to get rid of or dispossess something or someone through selling, transferring, or giving away. Example: The company plans to divest by selling off its non-core assets in order to focus on its main business.
Now that Cerberus is being forced to divest by one of its largest investors, and horrendous publicity, it deserves opprobrium, not respect.
A month ago, Swarthmore students stepped up pressure for their administration to divest by occupying a campus building, a move mirrored by students at University of Mary Washington, Harvard and Yale.
Stockton and others have suggested the decision to divest by one major U.S. denomination could push other churches on the brink to act.
John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation, another good government group in DC, says it dawned on him during the primary that if Trump won, he wouldn't be required to divest by law only by tradition.
Although only a small fraction of total global investment capital, pledges to divest by major institutions represent, at the very least, a public relations headache for the fossil fuel industry.
ShipCom recently became an independent company after it was divested by Eastman Chemical.
The system was dismantled in 1983, when the 22 operating companies were divested by AT&T under court order.
In May 1142 he recovered Saxony, one of the two duchies of which his father had been divested by Conrad III, the first Hohenstaufen German king.
He is called on by America to show "leadership", yet is divested by Israel of all political authority.Israel's invasion of Ramallah was one of many.
By divesting — by announcing that they are breaking ties with these companies — they will begin the process of politically bankrupting them.
By the time Mr. Brown arrived in 1999, Electronic Data had been divested by G.M. but was steadily losing ground to I.B.M. in a rapidly expanding computer services market.
