Divested

Dearest brothers in Christ sweet Jesus: I Catherine, servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ, write to you in His precious Blood: with desire to see you divested of the old man and clothed with the new -- divested, that is, of the world and the fleshly self-love which is the old sin of Adam, and clothed with the new Christ sweet Jesus, and His tender charity. ❋ Of Siena Catherine (1363)

In any case, I don't think there is anything wrong with taking away cash from companies which are probably going to be listed, can easily raise capital on a going basis, particularly if they kind of divested in 25%. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Requirements that aircraft be "divested," that top 25 employees get no bonuses, and the like, unsurprising really, which is quite sad given how radically retroactive and draconian the measures are. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pivotal, Sega Racing Studio, Razorworks, Venom, EA Chicago, Activision Foster City and FASA have all been shut down, while Swordfish and Massive Entertainment are in the process of being "divested". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Asked by an activist to give reassurance that the Government would ''put defence first'' he suggested that some capabilities ''orientated towards the Cold War'' could be ''divested'' but stressed: ''I have been asked to produce a programme which is adaptive, which will maintain capability across land, sea and air to be able to deal with whatever the future may bring...it will be a few more weeks until we finish the (Strategic Defence and Security) review and then we will set out the best possible and most strategically coherent shape of our Armed Forces that we can do, given the economic train wreck that we inherited from the Labour Party.'' ❋ Unknown (2010)

"divested" himself of his clothing, Mr. Box -- or was it Cox? ❋ George Sturt (1895)

Instead, we have divested from our real economy for decades. ❋ Michael Likosky (2011)

It does Mr. Chernow no disservice to regard his biography as a culmination of a long biographical tradition that has divested Washington of his marmoreal armor. ❋ Carl Rollyson (2010)

Look at what your Liberal ways have divested that State and now New York! ❋ Unknown (2009)

A long time ago, to get federal funding, the Jesuits divested themselves of the university so it is basically run by the board of trustees. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A wave of mega mergers in the following years opened up opportunities for smaller players as the giants divested older fields to chase bigger bets elsewhere. ❋ Angela Henshall (2011)

Two events in recent history have divested the human race of any dearly-held illusions about itself: the invention of the internet, where all insane human potential can spread out in a vast, mad anything-goes market … and the Holocaust. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Heritage has divested other large energy projects once they hit the development stage. ❋ Sarah Kent (2011)

Last week, he said it could be "several years" before the shareholdings are fully divested. ❋ Margot Patrick (2011)

That [black man] is being a [divester]. He said he's with that [asian woman] because she's better than the black woman. ❋ BBSSA (2022)

He [lived] on the [dangerous] side [of life] and decided to divest ❋ Thisismylife (2009)

She has [some nerve] trying to denegrate Foundational [Black Americans] with that $5 [divestment wig] on ❋ Chillin662 (2022)