(n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We concluded that, subject to reviewing the detail of any agreement, a partial divestiture of one or more stations involving a brand-licence arrangement between the acquirer and Global was a credible divestiture mechanism and was capable of being effective in addressing the substantial lessening of competition."
(2) INM reiterated that the "divestiture of non-strategic core assets" and a restructuring deal agreed by shareholders earlier this month will reduce overall borrowing by €350m, "providing a stable and secure financial platform ... from which to leverage the group's businesses as economic conditions recover".
(3) "We have not really considered the probability of a forced divestiture of News Corp's 39% minority shareholding in BSkyB.
(4) But of course the sale and the further divestiture will affect the way we are organised and over time how we work.
(5) The lack of public information about Trump’s finances renders it difficult to truly examine any action he might take on this front, short of clear divestiture.
(6) Subpassages are noted, and in particular the subtle process of divestiture which results in loss of personal identity.
(7) But the US Office of Government Ethics, the federal agency tasked with oversight of conflicts of interest laws among elected officials, maintains that divestiture is the “ only way ” for Trump to truly put the issue to rest.
(8) As we discussed with your counsel, divestiture is the way to resolve these conflicts,” a spokesperson for the office of government ethics said in a tweet to Trump .
Subsidiary
Definition:
(a.) Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally.
(n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(2) magazine as well as adult TV channels through subsidiary Portland .
(3) Even as those words were being published, lawyers and senior executives from News International's subsidiary News Group were preparing to run to court to gag Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who was suing the News of the World for its undisclosed involvement in the illegal interception of messages left on his mobile phone.
(4) None of Coventry’s subsidiaries recognised trade unions.
(5) It comes two years after the BSC stripped another Vedanta subsidiary of a safety award after the Observer drew its attention to the firm's involvement in one of the worst industrial tragedies in India's recent history.
(6) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(7) It was set up as a Thames subsidiary in 1971 to specialise in high quality mainstream drama and built a reputation for shooting on film and on location, unlike much production of scripted TV output at the time.
(8) In contrast, subsidiary pacemaker recovery time was correlated with both rate and duration of ventricular overdrive pacing.
(9) When present, the rule specified the locations of a subsidiary figure in each symbol according to the pattern top-right, bottom-left.
(10) The anti-piracy measures will be introduced across Google's main online search service, but not its subsidiary YouTube.
(11) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
(12) Among the finance directors on it were: Ken Hanna of Cadbury Schweppes, which was locked in a battle at the European court over its use of a Dublin subsidiary; Richard Lapthorne of Cable & Wireless; and AstraZeneca's Jon Symonds, embroiled in a multibillion pound "transfer pricing" dispute.
(13) The film-maker Michael Moore has suggested that the phone-hacking scandal at News International may spread to US subsidiary Fox News while speaking at a film festival event in New York.
(14) But, as it is currently drafted, it does not require companies in the UK to report on all the supply chains in their groups overseas, such as those of wholly owned subsidiaries abroad.
(15) In 46% of cases where diabetes should have been recorded as a subsidiary diagnosis, it was not.
(16) In January, West Coast Capital (USC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sports Direct, entered a “pre-pack” administration whereby the business was shorn of some staff and debts and then immediately bought back by another division of Sports Direct.
(17) However, the company was forced to cancel after its members were denied visas by Puspal, a subsidiary licensing arm of the Malaysian information, communication and cultre ministry.
(18) Lebedev intends to make the Standard fresher and younger, and possibly more progressive, and move the paper away from the direct influence of Paul Dacre, the powerful and opinionated editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, the DMGT subsidiary that publishes the paper.
(19) Clothing from its factories makes its way across the world, supplying big name brands in the west – from WalMart – the world's largest retailer (Asda is a subsidiary) – to high-street names like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and H&M.
(20) The bank had allowed narcotics traffickers and others to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through HSBC subsidiaries.