(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.
Sink
Definition:
(v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
(v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
(v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
(v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
(v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
(v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
(v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
(v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
(v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.
(v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
(v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
(n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
(n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
(n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(2) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(3) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
(4) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
(5) Milk poured from higher (5-10cm above the cup) will sink beneath the surface.
(6) The chylomicrons in particular, become separated from the VLDL, the sinking pre-beta-lipoprotein or Lp (a) was identifiable and the type III hyperlipemia was easily diagnosed.
(7) It’s another squalid reminder of Conservative priorities, and how low they are prepared to sink in pursuit of them.
(8) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(9) In women, but not in men, there was a rise in the risk of falling from 45 years, peaking in the 55-59 year age group, and sinking to a nadir at ages 70-74.
(10) 81% of all sinks were contaminated with P. aeruginosa strains.
(11) During the early part of the experiments, when the sink condition was maintained, FAH was the most effective for hairless mouse skin, whereas Azone showed the highest effect in the rat skin.
(12) Opening of water taps generated aerosols containing P. aeruginosa sink organisms which contaminated hands during hand washing.
(13) Rats were classified into sinking and non-sinking groups, according to the appearance of sinking behavior over a 2 hr test.
(14) The laminar pattern of current sources and sinks coincident with this component was more complicated after bicuculline, reflecting the summation of current flows associated with disinhibited lamina 4 activity.
(15) But the reality of it began to sink in, and when I met with Kathy Kennedy [the Lucasfilm president and Star Wars executive producer], my gut said this is not something to reject.
(16) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(17) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
(18) But it has been overwhelmed by the story of the sinking of the Sewol.
(19) Since biogenic particulate products, especially fecal pellets, are known to sink rapidly and intact to the ocean bottom, the transport of PCB's by such sinking particles could be an important mechanism which contributes to the penetration of PCB's into the deep sea.
(20) The receptor component had a current source in the outer segments (90% depth) and a sink in the ONL (70% depth).