Sentence examples for divest up from inspiring English sources
The government plans to divest up to 70% of near 500-year-old Royal Mail, which is expected to make its market debut on 11 October.
In the meantime, the company plans to divest up to $8bn of assets over the next two years and cut 4,000 jobs from its exploration arm and 3,000 from "downstream" refining.
In addition to the litigation, officials said they expect to divest up to $5 billion in investments from as many as 190 companies with fossil fuel ties, even as they promised to maintain their fiduciary duty to New York's pensioners.
New chief Robert Dudley Robert Dudley announced the company would divest up to $30 billion in non-core assets to pay for clean up and damages, a process that continued in October with the sale of four fields in the Gulf of Mexico to Japan's Marubeni for $650 million.
The H-shares of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China plunged 4.1% to 4.90 Hong Kong dollars (63 cents) on news that Goldman Sachs is divesting up to about $1.9 billion worth of shares in the Chinese lender at a discount of 4 to 6% below its Monday closing price.
Perhaps the company will eventually conclude that the costs, in bad publicity and constant legal battles, of maintaining its monopoly exceed the benefits, and choose to divest or open up Windows itself.
Biogen Idec, which introduced the first biologic for psoriasis in 2003, has already given up, divesting its drug to Astellas Pharma, a Japanese pharmaceutical company.
And my greatest fear is that in order to govern, I will end up divesting myself from who I really am".
An editorial in The Independent of London lamented a government policy, spurred by transnational conflict, that "ends up divesting us of cultural riches" like "the great Russian-born pianist".
Over a period of years, Walmart learned the distribution business from McLane and ended up divesting McLane to Berkshire-Hathaway for $1.5B in 2003.
Cornell and hundreds of universities ended up divesting from South Africa throughout the 1970s and 80s.
