Sentence examples for divisions off from inspiring English sources

Firms that once flogged unloved divisions off to private-equity buyers now have lots of cash on their balance-sheets, so do not need to sell.

And yet divisions off the field could not be avoided.

The club had risen from playing local league football to two divisions off the Football league after five promotions in six years following funding from Heaney.

"They want to spin these divisions off to make it easier for investors to see the value of their Internet operations," says Rennaissance Capital analyst Randall Roth.

Property developer Heaney has bankrolled Truro City as they have gone from playing local league football to the Blue Square Bet South, two divisions off the Football League.

Under the ownership of Heaney, Truro gained five promotions in six years to go from local league football to two divisions off the Football League and also won the 2007 FA Vase.

Pfizer, which spun its animal health division off as Zoetis this year, withdrew its roxarsone drug, 3-Nitro, from the market in 2011 after the F.D.A. found inorganic arsenic in chicken livers.

According to Mr Costa's leaked plea-bargain testimony, the mischief involved siphoning 3% of the value of contracts signed with his division off to slush funds for politicians, including Ms Rousseff's left-wing Workers Partyy (PT) and its coalition allies.

That's why Switzerland's Novartis, which is also reportedly a bidder for the DuPont division, spun off its crop division, merging it with that of AstraZeneca.

Commanders of the outgoing and incoming divisions faced off and snapped salutes, swapping places in formation.

Others, such as the Carlyle Group, specialized in picking up the divisions cast off by corporations scrambling to demonstrate their corporate focus.