Sentence examples for would split off from inspiring English sources

Earlier this month, DuPont said it would split off its drug unit.

Also in March, Motorola said it would split off the cellphone division from the ones that make set-top boxes, cable modems, police radios and other telecommunications gear.

Sun could sell off its hardware business, perhaps to Fujitsu, a Japanese firm, and focus on providing new "cloud computing" services.As for Motorola, it said in March that it would split off its mobile-phone division, creating two listed companies.

In 1999 BAe signed an agreement with General Electric Company PLC wherein the latter would split off its defense electronics business, Marconi Electronic Systems, which would then merge with BAe.

American officials said that the inclusion of Sunni officials in high-ranking posts reduced the chances that disaffected Sunnis would split off from the political process and resume sectarian warfare, as happened after Sunnis boycotted the election five years ago.

After the antitrust division sued to block the deal, InBev amended terms of its takeover in a way that would split off Modelo's U.S. business from the rest of the company.

To Manhattan, then back across the bridge, and once we got to Brooklyn they would just split off to their side and we'd keep driving to our side, like it was nothing.

Alitalia's other businesses would be split off into a separate entity whose assets would be sold to help pay down about 1.2 billion euros, or $1.7 billion, in debt.

On 30 July 2013 the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of India declared that part of Andhra Pradesh would be split off to form a new Telangana state, and that Hyderabad city would be the capital city and part of Telangana, while the city would also remain the capital of Andhra Pradesh for no more than ten years.

The opposition would, just as before, have elected Michael Foot as leader in 1980; in reaction, the Gang of Four would have split off, just as really happened, to form the SDP in 1981.

However, Ian Davis insisted Rolls would not split off its largest businesses.