Sentence examples for ordered to divest from inspiring English sources

In 1962, after 13 years of antitrust litigation, DuPont was ordered to divest itself of GM stock.

In 1906 the U.S. government brought suit against Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; in 1911 the New Jersey company was ordered to divest itself of its major holdings 33 companies in all.

Pfizer was just ordered to divest its swine vaccine business as a condition to the approval of its merger with Wyeth.

The rare presidential order to divest interests in the wind farms comes as Obama campaigns for a second term against Republican Mitt Romney, who has accused him of being soft on China.

It's a much safer place to divest their assets.

ABC came into being because the F.C.C., back in 1941, ordered NBC to divest itself of one of the two national radio networks that it owned, the Red and the Blue.

In 1963, Pete Rozelle, the commissioner of the N.F.L., suspended Paul Hornung, the golden boy of the Green Bay Packers, and Lions defensive lineman Alex Karras for gambling on games in the Lindell A.C. Rozelle also ordered Karras to divest himself of his one-third interest in the saloon.

A Czech court ordered Zelezny to divest his Nova shares.

The court ordered Sprint to divest itself of all Nextel assets in iPCS territory.

(And in December, regulators ordered National City to divest 61 branches to win approval for its merger with PNC Financial Services).

The Competition Commission ordered Interbrew to divest itself of a number of its recently acquired brands, and Worthington was bought by the American brewer Coors, who later became Molson Coors in 2005.