Sentence examples for proposal to divest from inspiring English sources

The proposal to divest the fund had support from two out of three Norwegians in a recent poll.

One bank after another has pulled away from financing tar sands and coal mines; just last week, Norway's sovereign-wealth fund, among the largest pools of investment capital on the planet, announced a proposal to divest from fossil fuels.

In the past year, the Resources Committee received a proposal to divest endowment holdings from fossil-fuel companies, a request to establish sustainable-investment strategies to guide the endowment, and two petitions relating to investments in companies that contribute to or profit from Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

Now GE has a new proposal: to divest 19.9% of its aircraft leasing arm, something it had previously refused to do.

A proposal to divest Santa Monica city funds from institutions doing business with South Africa is expected to be debated by the City Council on Tuesday night.

Members of the largest U.S. Presbyterian denomination rejected a controversial proposal Thursday night to divest millions of dollars of investments in companies that many members have said are profiting from death and destruction in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The United Methodist Church, the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination, voted against two proposals on Wednesday to divest from companies that provide equipment used by Israel to enforce its control in the occupied territories.

Warren's proposal to require the president to divest — which she has introduced before and is now introducing for the first time in the new Congress — adds yet another dimension to her evolving agenda, one focused on Trump's particular abuses and on how to prevent them from happening again.

That is far fewer than the 6,000 employees who would have had to divest under his original proposal to strengthen conflict-of-interest rules at the world's premier biomedical research agency.

Larry Summers said it well when, as president of Harvard University, proposals reached his desk calling for Harvard to divest from any company doing business with Israel.

One possibility would be for Diageo to divest itself of Malibu, a proposal that has gained some credence in recent days.