After having incurred the enmity both of rival princes and of his own nobility, Otakar was first divested of his rights to Austria, Styria, and Carinthia by the Diet of Regensburg (1274), then placed under the ban of the empire (June 1276).
When eBay enterprise was first divested by eBay and sold to a Permira-led consortium in 2015, its value was $925 million, which itself was a pretty significant drop compared the $2.4 billion eBay paid when it first acquired the basis of eBay enterprise in 2011.
Yet it was the Quakers in Britain who became the first to divest in October that year.
Well, I'm writing now, however, not in an age of Clintonian triangulation, but in an age where the notion of conservative Republicans seeing as their first duty divesting themselves of the power they have been given seems perfectly absurd.
Courts have uniformly held that this argument that the Fourteenth Amendment divested state citizens of U.S. citizenship is plainly incorrect.
By the end of the year, Hampshire College ― the first school to divest from South Africa during apartheid ― became the first educational institution to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
Inspired by Columbia University student activists — who recently convinced Columbia to become the first university to divest from companies that run private prisons — Credico is trying to persuade the public officials overseeing New York City and New York State's pension funds to do the same.
Last year the university's administrators accepted a mock cheque from students for $43 million — the amount they've lost in fossil fuel holdings since students first demanded they divest three years ago.
In February 2009, thanks to Students for Justice in Palestine's intense and ongoing pressure, Hampshire became the first college to divest from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago and President Obama's former chief of staff, has said he would ask the city's pension funds to look into whether they have investments in companies that manufacture or sell assault weapons as the first step toward divesting from them, The Chicago Tribune reported.
