(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.
Unveil
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.
(v. i.) To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(2) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
(3) However, it will be at least two weeks before Tian Tian and Yang Guang are unveiled properly to the public.
(4) The first tranche of spending cuts was unveiled not by the chancellor, but by David Laws.
(5) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
(6) The new methane rules – which will be formally unveiled on Wednesday - are the last big chance for Obama to fight climate change.
(7) The ECB acted decisively when bank liquidity was drying up in late 2011, unveiling a wall of money with its LTRO programme.
(8) The latest update came as Wal-Mart unveiled flat first-quarter earnings.
(9) The government is expected to unveil its next five-year economic plan by June, following the 2010-2015 growth and transformation plan – probably maintaining a focus on infrastructure, including links to neighbouring economies.
(10) The slogan will be unveiled at a rally in Warwick tomorrow, but Alexander gave no hint of Gordon Brown calling an election before 6 May, emphasising the need for a slow reappraisal of Labour to take root.
(11) Rather, it's because because policymakers and administrators have come to treat higher education as a commercial marketplace, rather than a public trust – and stop-gap student loan reforms like those "unveiled" by President Obama this week fail to confront this ethical dilemma underlying the debt pile.
(12) The plans to be unveiled on Monday also include “ iPlay” a “safe space” of edited content for children, free of advertising .
(13) Witty's comments came as GSK unveiled lower first half sales and profits, and a further £500m of cost cuts by the end of 2015.
(14) Mandelson, who today unveiled plans to introduce measures including suspending the internet connections of illegal downloaders , argued that while less draconian than the French plan, the UK's approach would be tough enough to tackle online piracy.
(15) A green investment bank or fund is expected to be unveiled in Alastair Darling's budget tomorrow.
(16) Last month US Treasury officials unveiled new rules to make it harder for American companies to complete tax inversion deals.
(17) However, less than twelve hours before the Hogan-Howe report was due to be unveiled, HMIC announced the report would be postponed.
(18) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
(19) France and Germany have joined Britain in unveiling plans to restrict benefits for European Union migrants, as David Cameron prepares for a clash with Brussels over the historic principle of free movement.
(20) Then yesterday Osborne made everything worse by unveiling a completely contradictory poster (he does know that abolishing the "jobs tax" will increase the debt, right?)