Joe Patterson's Daily News, now owned by a real estate operator, has been divested of its old panache with no corresponding improvement in its character.
In an age in which sex has been divested of most of its mystery (hard-core pornography is a website away and Mills & Boon has invested in a "raunchy" series), it may be that the "psychology of desire" is the only unknown territory to explore.
Even dumber, she said that the Photoshopping was a "desecration," which means she believes Trig had been "divested of her sacred character".
In October 2008 Time Out re-issued a review of For Your Eyes Only and observed that the film is "admirable in intent" but that it "feels a little spare", largely because the plot has been "divested of the bells and whistles that hallmark the franchise".
That bell must toll for all of us -- for the ironworkers, those disenfranchised in federal prisons, to the innocent on death row; for the unlikely terrorist who has been divested of due process to the homeless veteran who sleeps in the doorway of despair.
Some 75% of the 251 properties acquired have been divested to traditional owners.
The bigger company has been divesting of some of its international operations at the same time that it is beefing up in India.
Tobacco stocks have been divested over the last two decades by a number of public officials and organizations, like churches, pension funds and universities -- including the University of California in 2001.
While German banks have been divesting themselves of large amounts of debt from Greece and other southern European governments, French institutions have not been doing likewise, according to a European official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Many big conglomerates have been divesting themselves of units and focusing on their higher-growth businesses.
