In seeking to lift the sanctions, top Trump administration officials argued that Deripaska had sufficiently divested control of the firms and that keeping the penalties in place for Deripaska-linked aluminum producing companies would benefit other aluminum companies based in China and elsewhere.
Fast forward almost three decades and Olympic sports in this country were thrown into turmoil by the Australian Sports Commission's 2012 Winning Edge strategy, which divested direct control of elite training programs from the AIS to individual national sporting organisations.
The company noted that among other things it plans to divest its remote control and digital video security categories; the company also plans to discontinue certain other "non-strategic" products, including speaker docks and console gaming peripherals, by the end of 2013.
Beginning in 1990, the state divested itself of control of the energy industry.
But, the good news is the public needn't wait for change, they can take control and divest.
During opening arguments on Monday, a lawyer for the city, Heidi Grossman, said that plaintiffs sought "to divest the N.Y.P.D. of control over how the N.Y.P.D. investigates crime".
Among the new rules is one that would require foreign companies to divest themselves of majority control of their mining projects within 10 years of starting production.
Ministers are required to divest themselves, or relinquish control, of all shares and similar interests in any company or business involved in the area of their portfolio responsibilities.
The government's "standards for ministerial staff" require that staff "divest themselves, or relinquish control, of interests in any private company or business and/or direct interest in any public company involved in the area of their ministers' portfolio responsibilities".
"Ministers are required to divest themselves, or relinquish control, of all shares and similar interests in any company or business involved in the area of their portfolio responsibilities," the Howard government's 1998 guidelines read.
At the same time, they would divest themselves of their control of government ministries, a power that is keenly central to Shas, which is built on a social movement providing services and religious education to the poor and the working class.
