Royal Mail, now divested of its pension liabilities, is reckoned to be worth another £2.5 billion.
Its patriarch was executed, and the church was divested of its extensive landholdings.
I could see it quite clearly, as I had seen it one day, while waiting in his kitchen for a sun shower to pass, rays of sun alighting on it, divesting it of its sheath of brown dust, the red ripples flowing through it, so that it seemed to liquefy, as if it were being newly blown.
III, §14), the "geometrical cogency" of proofs (RFM III, §43), and a "geometrical application" according to which the "transformation of signs" in accordance with "transformation-rules" (RFM VI, §2, 1941) shows that "when mathematics is divested of all content, it would remain that certain signs can be constructed from others according to certain rules" (RFM III, §38).
It would be a challenge to keep faith with so many tumultuously occupied characters even if they were not being systematically divested of sympathetic qualities; as it is, the negativity becomes a slog.
Moreover, it has been so thoroughly adopted by sloanes and lithe young London twentysomething socialites that, to my eyes, the biker jacket has been thoroughly divested of any rebellious elements it might once have had and now looks about as exciting as a pashmina.
But it's also been through several rocky patches over the last 10 years, including profit warnings, and it has divested of several operations — including the sale of its telecoms assets in 2007 for $525 million to Atlantic Bridge Ventures.
The real problem is that now that the job is in the public eye, it is divested of any "real life" significance and can only be lauded in a PR-contaminated world.
We ought to see that constitutional inheritance as a national treasure, yet we've divested ourselves of it without much of a debate.
Since then he has divested it of many of its non-packaging-related assets.
