Sentence examples for divested holdings from inspiring English sources

Some 36% of those polled said they had divested holdings of a company's shares in the last year due to the risk of so-called 'stranded assets', while another 27% expect to monitor this risk closely in the future.

In the 1980s, Ohio Wesleyan's administration, moved by student activism, pledged and eventually fully divested holdings connected to South Africa.

He was also a faculty activist -- he'd speak quite openly at faculty meeting about his concerns and was one of the first to encourage the University to divest holdings in South Africa.

Federal law requires presidential nominees to divest holdings that may conflict with their official duties.

Yet two weeks ago, Zerhouni told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that he generally favored relaxing the new requirement that senior agency scientists divest holdings of stock in individual companies.

They want West uninvited to the May 3-4 meeting because of what they describe as his offensive criticism of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and his support for universities to divest holdings from companies that do business with the Israeli military.

He has divested his holdings in those companies, he said.

Mr. Swensen noted that the university divested its holdings in South Africa and Sudan years ago.

That's what happened a quarter century ago when, around the western world, institutions divested their holdings in companies doing business in apartheid South Africa.

"Mr. Gargano divested his holdings many years ago so there wouldn't be any reason to question anything," said Thomas Aro, executive vice president of Alpha.

But while Kushner divested some holdings, he and his wife have maintained large stakes in businesses with domestic and foreign ties.