You are trying to divest yourself of a property right".
On the one hand, he tried to divest himself of all that pomp and excess.
But Cognis's private-equity owners have been trying to divest themselves of it since 2005, with their plans repeatedly undermined by stockmarket downturns.
It may be true that Kaminski is trying to divest himself of his antisemitism, but the political party he now belongs to, Polish Law and Justice (PiS), is hardly a home for anti-racists.
VIVENDI UNIVERSAL, Paris, the conglomerate that is trying to divest itself of its entertainment assets in the U.S., sold a 35-story, 774,240-square-foot office tower in Los Angeles to CarrAmerica Realty, Washington, and Beacon Capital Partners, Boston, for $190 million.
"What appears to have been happening across the board is that local government is trying to divest itself of museums, especially of employees, but one of the sticking points is that cities often own the buildings and the museum's collections," said Edward M. Luby, a professor of museum studies at San Francisco State University.
The tunes on Metals are too attractive to make the album a straightforward up-yours-to-the-dinner-party-hosts gesture; if you're trying to divest yourself of a mainstream audience, you would be advised not to write something as undeniable and charming as The Circle Married the Line – although a big obvious hit like 1,2,3,4 is conspicuous by its absence.
So it's a constellation: social housing being bought out by private developers, councils trying to divest themselves of what sparse stock they have left, "affordability" criteria bearing no relation to actual affordability, wages that don't even cover social rents, thousands of homes empty in preparation for the billions their destruction will bring in.
Though Cardinal Ratzinger's office was recently given the responsibility of overseeing the new system under which all accusations of sexual abuse by priests must be reported to Rome, the cardinal is clearly trying to divest himself of power rather than accumulate it.
