Sentence examples for requesting divestment from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of you wrote well-informed and often moving letters to the Wellcome Trust board requesting divestment.

Jewish New Zealander Justine Sachs and Palestinian New Zealander Nadia Abu-Shanab wrote an open letter to the musician after she scheduled tour dates in Israel, requesting she not break the the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign which protests Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

Save Darfur met with her staff at the Governor's Anchorage Office to discuss Sinopec's role in the Alaska Gas Pipeline and to request her support for targeted divestment from Sudan.

At some point during a recent debate at Stanford on a student bill that would have requested that the university divest from firms aiding in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, a student argued against divestment because it made him feel "threatened".

Students at Bowdoin College say this is why administrators rejected their divestment request.

The petitioners are free to revise and resubmit their divestment request, Jezierny said.

ACIR was reconstituted under a new charge in 2013 that established a process and guidelines for considering divestment requests.

In response to the students' request, the university's Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee last year conducted an inquiry on the divestment of the university's £2bn endowment.

The more scheme members who request change, the more likely it is that the underlying investment manager will offer a divestment option.

The university did not respond to multiple requests for comment on its divestment plans, although it has highlighted faculty responses to the encyclical on its website.

Walmart provided information about its activities in Oregon, but the company declined to respond to a request for comment about Portland's divestment.