(v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
(v. t.) Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
(v. t.) See Devest.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it comes as members of the European parliament in Brussels plan to establish a specialist group to campaign in favour of carbon divestment and demand new carbon reporting requirements.
(2) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(3) Some of the world’s largest investment firms have thrown their weight behind efforts to combat smoking, sparking renewed calls for UK local authorities to divest all their shares in the tobacco industry from their pension fund investments.
(4) Could it be forced to divest parts of its business?
(5) Now the UK security firm G4S looks set to scale back its involvement in the Israeli prison system that holds Palestinian children without trial, following an international campaign that saw US churches and the Bill Gates Foundation divest from the company.
(6) Earlier this week Shell was reported to be preparing to make significant cutbacks to its operations in the UK North sea, and van Beurden is expected to announce a string of divestment targets at the end of this month.
(7) But even if this impact is limited in increasingly secular societies, it still provides succour to those within non-faith groups pushing for divestment.
(8) Nonimmortalized mouse mammary epithelial cells expressing Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase from a murine amphotropic packaged retroviral vector were injected into the epithelium-divested mammary fat pads of syngeneic mice.
(9) As of late Tuesday, the White House and the intelligence agencies, all belated supporters of the USA Freedom Act, did not respond to questions about whether they will seek legislation in the next Congress to divest the NSA of its domestic phone records database.
(10) The fossil fuel industry is a bigger threat to global health than tobacco and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust have a moral obligation to divest from it, an international organisation that represents 1 million medical students has said.
(11) If the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust divest from all of the biggest fossil fuel firms, that sends a very clear message.
(12) Whether New York is any more likely than London to divest, however, is up in the air, she says.
(13) In another demonstration of the growing concern of the scientific community towards the investments held by their funders, hundreds of scientists have answered a Guardian call to write to the Gates Foundation and Wellcome expressing their views on divestment.
(14) This means universities, churches, and other investment pools, now increasingly under pressure from mushrooming campaigns to divest funds from fossil fuel companies , must take action.
(15) This week it has taken a bold decision to go further : to step up engagement with fund managers on critical topics, including climate change; to increase our exposure to environmental, social and governance (ESG) managers; and, in the medium term, to divest from fossil fuels.
(16) That is why NTEU NSW is mounting a campaign for UniSuper to divest from Transfield.
(17) Two protesters from Divest from Detention network interrupted Transfield’s chair Diane Smith-Gander’s opening speech to present a letter signed by 844 asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island and Nauru.
(18) Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), founded on the nation’s oil and gas resources and worth now £580bn in total, is being targeted by fossil fuel divestment campaigners.
(19) It has now divested and ruled out future investments in any company that makes more than 10% of its revenues from thermal coal – used for electricity generation – and oil from the tar sands.
(20) The companies said they were prepared to divest 3m TWC subscribers to help win approval of the deal.
Ungod
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of divinity; to undeify.
(v. t.) To cause to recognize no god; to deprive of a god; to make atheistical.
Example Sentences:
(1) In around 100 years time, multi-generational "problem" families will constitute a quarter of the population, sucking in billions of "our" tax dollars and placing "an ungodly burden" on our children and grandchildren, says US psychiatrist Dr Bruce Perry.
(2) When we return from dinner at the ungodly hour of 9.20pm, we have to be let in by the night watchman.
(3) One European diplomat closely involved with the talks despairs at the "Republican headbangers who cannot resist a chance to damage Obama, believe global warming is based on junk science and regard action on climate change as ungodly because it will delay the second coming".
(4) No staring at ceilings at ungodly hours fretting over problems that will be forgotten in weeks; no checking work emails, almost as a nervous tic, when they can wait; no neglecting friendships that sustain and give life meaning.
(5) It is 11am and this is his fourth interview of the day, starting at some ungodly hour with a baptism of bosomy fire courtesy of Lorraine Kelly and followed by a stream of ebullient radio presenters.
(6) Out of the blue, Josh posted a 1,500-word blog on his own website that criticised everything from the way the band had been put together to the lyrics of Brand New Eyes, which he deemed ungodly.
(7) The targeted leaflet , which accuses Labour of undermining Christian values and promoting "ungodly lifestyles", was sent to 24,000 people in the borough.
(8) The ungodly screeching you hear are the cogs of Walford's criminal underworld grinding once more into motion.
(9) Nor may they play video games rated as suitable for those aged over 10, watch TV programmes rated beyond PG or read potentially “ungodly” periodicals including Esquire, People, Men’s Fitness and ESPN the Magazine.
(10) As things stand, we'd be looking at extra-time and penalties, which seem almost inevitable, considering I have to be back here in the office at some ungodly hour to record an extra early edition of Football Weekly Extra podcast .
(11) One of my young children wakes me at an ungodly hour before I travel into Shoreditch on my Brompton and the train, where I prepare for the day by meditating and praying.
(12) Why we are sat here being oppressed, while people from other tribes are hauling themselves up by their own ungodly efforts and buying three-piece suites.
(13) This is the first nomination for Caplan, who told ABC News : “I can safely say that this is one of the few phone calls a person wants to get at an ungodly hour.
(14) Aged 41 The motivation and energy the professor has is infectious, and the ungodly hours he keeps.
(15) I also know lots of male bakers – but they specialise in muscular sourdoughs, get up at ungodly hours to wrestle with great masses of dough, and most of them are, not to put too fine a point on it, sociopathic loons.