Divestment

JPMorgan, in an analyst note, said the long-speculated divestment is positive for Renault as the gain in terms of cash from reduced interest payments on its debt should more than compensate for the fall in dividends that it will receive from Volvo. ❋ David Pearson (2010)

The solution is complete boycott, sanction and divestment from the state of Israel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After a string of acquisitions, for example, U.K. behemoth Vodafone Group now is in divestment mode. ❋ Hester Plumridge (2010)

The literary ethos in this quasi-spatial sense, as marking out its own accustomed place of imaginative outlay and divestment, is perhaps the complement — but certainly the opposite — of anything taken up from the sociological work of Michel de Certeau and advanced as the route to critique and reappropriation within cultural studies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet many maintain that Article VI does not, in fact, commit nuclear-weapons states to a long-term divestment of those weapons. ❋ Russ Wellen (2010)

The IMF was so impoverished by Latin American divestment-which went from 80 percent of its loans to about one percent-that it's been reduced to selling off its gold reserves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The IMF was so impoverished by Latin American divestment -- which went from 80% of its loans to about 1% -- that it’s been reduced to selling off its gold reserves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ABN Amro analyst Jan Willem Weidema said the divestment is a good deal, noting that the sale price was on the higher end of his expectations. ❋ Maarten Van Tartwijk (2011)

Mr. Dudley said the reason for the divestment was the "flat to declining demand for fuel in the U.S. and Europe." ❋ Guy Chazan (2011)

It did not give a value for the pharmaceutical unit, but said it would take a 106 million euro non-cash charge on the divestment, which is expected to close by year-end. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"The divestment is a further example of public-private partnerships...whereby strategic divestments are made with the aim of putting government-linked companies on a stronger and more competitive footing," Khazanah's managing director Azman Mokhtar in the emailed statement.

"While the divestment is a significant step in delivering our new strategic direction, focusing on our core business and markets in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands, we will remain present in the Finnish market through our electricity sales and hydro power generation operations," Vattenfall's chief executive, Øystein Løseth, said in a statement. ❋ By MARK SCOTT (2011)

"The selling price will indicate whether the divestment is a desperate attempt or part of the global strategy." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The divestment is the biggest domestic sale since Siam Commercial Bank Pcl sold a $1.45 billion stake in Singburi Sugar Ltd. in March 2002, according to data compiled by ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since the invasion of Gaza began on Dec. 27, the idea of divestment and boycott against Israel has spread to college campuses all over the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Israel will face worldwide censure if it attempts to crush the independent state by force and very likely be subjected to the kind of divestment campaigns and boycotts that brought down the apartheid government of South Africa. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am troubled by divestiture is "divestment" even a word? since it is a collective punishment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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)