(1) The demerger of Cadbury Schweppes was his brainchild – spinning off Schweppes as a separate US drinks business – and it is hard to argue with his claims that it has proved successful.
(2) News Corp's share price rose by 8% on Tuesday following confirmation that the split was being considered, giving investors who have long hoped for a sell-off of News Corp's newspaper titles hope that their stock would rise further upon the demerger.
(3) Rupert Murdoch has chosen News International's top technology executive to set News Corporation's global strategy for digital publishing and to manage the technical end of the demerger of the media company into two separately listed businesses.
(4) After years of speculation, National Australia Bank announced the demerger of the two banks and exit from the UK banking industry on Thursday.
(5) Biffa was demerged from Severn Trent last September at 260p a share.
(6) Murdoch had hoped the promotion, which would return him to pole position to take over from his father and to run the TV business when News Corp demerges it from its newspapers next year, would have been announced in July.
(7) Discussing the tricky Velcro-parting of the organisation Thurley used the dreaded D-word – "Demerging" – and I was able to snap at him in turn: "That isn't a word!"
(8) Rupert Murdoch is expected to give further details this week of the top management and structure of News Corporation's demerged publishing division to be headed by Robert Thomson.
(9) It said investors’ returns over the three-year period amounted to £21bn in share price increase, dividends and value created by the demerger of Reckitt’s pharmaceutical division, now known as Indivior.
(10) A spokesman for Kingfisher said the £242m anticipated headline cost of the demerger was "a worst case scenario".
(11) He took my remonstrance in good part, but the sad thing is that "demerging" is not only a word, it's exactly the right sort of term to apply to the English heritage industry, which, whatever else we may wish to believe about it, is potentially big business, and therefore subject entirely to the same calculus of profit as our other formerly public services.
(12) Demergers are usually tax-free and we expect Kingfisher to successfully appeal against the French tax authorities."
(13) The demerger of the bank was a milestone for NAB, which first revealed the CYBG’s £450m PPI charge when it published its own results earlier this month.
(14) City shareholders hope that Thiam will boost the value of the company by demerging Prudential's fast-growing Asian operation, or selling the British business, possibly to Clive Cowdery, whose company Resolution Life merged with Pearl Assurance.
(15) It is understood that the new publishing venture could have as much as $3bn in cash, depending on the final details of the demerger from News Corp's Fox TV and film businesses, when it is split off this summer.
(16) The restructure includes a demerger of Adani Ports and Adani Power.
(17) When Condron took over as managing director in 1994 he started the firm's expansion into the US with the $665m acquisition of Yellow Book before readying the company for a demerger from parent BT.
(18) Kingfisher revealed that it expected the final bill for advisers on the demerger process to be £60m.
(19) Since it introduced the accounts, competition has heated up in the market, with Tesco recently launching an account, TSB releasing a new deal following its demerger from Lloyds, and Marks & Spencer overhauling its range.
(20) His epithet for Thurley's outfit is "English Heretics", and he sees the demerging of English Heritage as the beginning of the rampant commercialisation of our historic sites.
Plunge
Definition:
(v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.
(v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
(v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
(v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
(v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
(v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
(n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
(n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
(n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
(n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(2) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(3) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
(4) For some people, free cash will persuade them to take the plunge.
(5) Those Labour MPs plunging their party into an unwanted crisis are betraying not only the party itself but also our national interest at one of the most critical moments any of us can recall.
(6) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(7) Thus: wanting to cut public spending more slowly than the coalition plans isn't about protecting state activity or putting debt on future generations, it's about not plunging back into recession, Dublin-style.
(8) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
(9) The City regulator also used its Prudential Risk Outlook to reveal that the UK's biggest banks have been told they must have enough capital to withstand a plunge back into recession in the next four years.
(10) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(11) The surprise return of Saleh last month, after recovering in Saudi Arabia from an assassination attempt, has plunged the country into deeper uncertainty and sharpened the differences between pro- and anti-government camps.
(12) We’re being transparent about what we are doing and what we’re not doing, so all the Iguala investigations will be checked, reviewed and assessed by an independent group of experts we’ve called in from the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights .” Asked whether Peña Nieto – whose approval rating recently plunged to 39% – had the support and strength needed to address the security crisis, Gómez Robledo said: “He has the intelligence, the conviction, the strength and the youth to face all of the challenges.
(13) Campa was speaking as the Ibex index of Madrid's most traded stocks plunged for a second day and the cost of protecting investors against a default of Spanish debt reached a record high.
(14) A sub-index measuring new orders plunged to 52, the lowest since June 2009, from 58.5 in July.
(15) Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections , plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
(16) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
(17) A three-week plunge has knocked about 30% off Chinese shares since mid-June.
(18) For every 1% increase in gas and electricity bills, it is estimated a further 40,000 households are plunged into fuel poverty.
(19) Share holdings were assumed to have plunged 20% in the two years of the test, leading to a cumulative rout of 36%.
(20) But the world's largest insurer has seen its shares plunge in recent weeks as it reels from the effects of the credit crunch.