Sentences with phrase «divest of»

Basically, I just need to divest myself of some of my stuff, but I always think I'll find someplace to use it again (and often do!)

«In any other administration, he'd be required to divest of this asset.

Banks are definitely selling commercial loan notes left and right to private investors, even sometimes in cases where the notes ARE PERFORMING, if the bank has a need (reducing required regulatory capital, regulatory pressure, Board mandates, etc.) to divest themselves of a particular asset class.

«People need help quantifying their return, objective feedback on their current properties» performance and honest advice as to hold or divest themselves of certain properties,» says Hazzi.

He believed that people who owned real estate did not necessarily want to totally divest themselves of real estate ownership, but were uncomfortable in the circumstances surrounding their current ownership.

Homeowners do not default because they did not invest a lot of money in their home, they default because they have no equity when then find themselves in a position that requires them to divest themselves of the property.

This is most popular for health providers desiring to divest of non-core or obsolete space.

All NPO's have to divest themselves of the previous year's excess funds, somehow, in order to justify the next year's budget requirements, something like government departments, which operate in direct contrast to efficiency - of - scale self - supporting profit - seeking enterprises.

If it is obvious that it probably will not become so, divest yourself of this client

«Providing federal agencies authority to divest of federal assets where the agencies can demonstrate an increase in value from the sale would optimize the taxpayer value for federal assets,» according to the proposal.

It should divest itself of delivering MLS technology and services and instead focus on licensing the MLS brand on a non-exclusive basis to qualified entities that can prove their ability to deliver world - class information technology solutions.

After you have done the hard work of assessing your present relationship with a prospective client, assessing the what and why of one who may be unprofitable and taking by the hand those who could be borderline, you will be able to more clearly assess the relativity of each input factor, after which you must decide whether to continue with or divest yourself of this person (s).

Circle had fallen out of favor with diehard Bitcoin fans after it made the decision to divest itself of Bitcoin interaction.

In these pages we offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.

As a matter of fact, one of the primary drivers of the Scottish independence referendum is that Scotland wants to divest itself of any association with the renters insurance scam!

She lay virtually unattended in the hospital while the three parties (Travel Guard, the cruise line and the hospital administrators) each fought to divest themselves of any responsiblity for her.

Presteigne's parent wanted to concentrate on its main activities and divest of a non-core business, which had a high degree of ongoing investment required to meet its dynamic market challenges.

«One of the outcomes of the investigation could well be that BAA is forced to divest of one or more of its airports in the hope that standards at the retained and divested airports will be raised as a result of having to compete for airlines and travellers» business,» he says.

It is true that judges do not have to remain passive, or to divest themselves of all their experience which assists them in their judicial fact finding.

In August 2015, O - Net Communications, a Hong Kong - based investor, sought judicial review of a Privy Council national security order requiring O - Net to divest itself of a Québec - based company called ITF Technologies, which it acquired in 2014.

As life science companies look to consolidate operations, acquire products or technology, divest themselves of non-strategic products or functions, or attract partners and research funding, they rely on Blakes, a leader in M&A, securities, finance and competition law.

BAA Ltd v Competition Commission & Ryanair Ltd The Court of Appeal has restored the Competition Commission («the Commission») decision ordering BAA to divest itself of Gatwick airport, Stansted airport, and either Glasgow or Edinburgh airport, finding that there was no apparent bias in its decision.

Reed Elsevier Inc. has agreed to divest some of its ChoicePoint assets in order for its $ 4.1 billion acquisition of ChoicePoint Inc. to be approved by the FTC.

If it's a minor territory, the company will sometimes enter into an agreement to divest itself of local assets or entities.

In the context of the Charter, the logic of the presumption is turned on its head: it does not operate in this context to ensure the relevant legislative body remains vested with its constitutional authority, but rather to divest it of authority.

Now that I'm a good many years distant from any actual connection to legal education, I feel free to divest myself of a curriculum, or at least an approach to a curriculum, that I've mulled over for a long time and that in my view would approach an ideal of sorts.

Usually, the use of a pseudonym is to either make it easier for the author to write to his / her market (most female writers of the 1800s wrote used men's names) or to divest themselves of ownership (Louis L'Amour famously denied to his dying day being the Tex Burns who wrote the Hopalong Cassidy novels).

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission moved to alleviate the potential anti-competitive effects by requiring Reed to divest itself of the two ChoicePoint services most directly targeted at law enforcement customers.

In 1981, as co-lead trial counsel, Mr. Russ achieved a multi-million dollar jury verdict in one of the first private Section 7 Clayton Act cases that directed Pillsbury Flour Co. to divest itself of Wilton, Inc., a dominant cake decorating equipment specialty firm.

Indeed, Thomson Reuter, in declaring an intention to divest itself of its healthcare businesses, maintains that its «core franchises» including legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and financial services, are those where it sees opportunities for growth and profitability.

To sustain this expertise strategy they will need to specialise in this one area and will therefore have to divest themselves of other areas of work.

Alternatively they can deicide to specialise in other areas in which case they will need to divest themselves of the estate administration work by outsourcing it to one of the new entrants.

A student - led open letter to the University of Victoria is asking the university to divest itself of its fossil - fuel investments.

If you are a genuine seeker of knowledge, and you want to divest yourself of the misconceptions you clearly have about the science, then go to Skeptical Science, where there are nearly 5,000 threads dealing with the skeptics memes you propagate.

Popularized in 2012 by Bill McKibben, the discovery led to pressure on colleges and businesses to divest themselves of investments in corporations that relied on such «stranded assets.»

In 2008, Norway's government decided to divest itself of around $ 1 billion of shares in Rio citing concern over severe environmental damages from its Grasberg mine in West Papua.

If we can't shut down a pipeline or prevent fracking someplace or get a university to divest itself of investments in the oil industry, how can we imagine that we're actually going to overthrow capitalism?

The deal was technically illegal, but as the law stood, the bank would have two years to divest itself of its insurance business.

In 1976, the FTC ordered Kennecott to divest itself of Peabody.

I would speculate that the experience of this struggle was so traumatic for the company that it played a role in its decision to divest itself of nearly all its generating assets when New York State's electric utility market was deregulated in 1994.

Shortly afterward, the same guidelines forced Pax to divest itself of its Starbucks shares, after the coffee company entered into a deal with Jim Beam, the distiller, to market a coffee - flavored liqueur.

I suggest that the modern 401 (k) plan is a scam facilitated by those who financially prey upon the poor and middle class to divest you of your wealth in much the same way as the idea to deduct income taxes from your paycheck.

The desire (it seems) of all the European energy majors to divest themselves of low margin oil & LPG distribution businesses has presented a unique opportunity for DCC to bulk up.

Still, Kirzner stresses that if you really want to have an impact on guns, «divest yourself of the actual gun stocks.

In these pages we offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.

So that's why the feds made the movie studios (the suppliers) divest themselves of their theaters (the distribution channel).

I have attempted to divest myself of some things in the last year.

Furthermore, well - established authors always have an agent who is probably not enthusiastic about seeing their clients divest themselves of traditional publishing.

Even if Harlequin were to fully divest itself of the DellArte division (not something I believe they'll do), you can be sure that the issue would come up again.

Nor does it have a legitimate interest in pressuring Harlequin to divest itself of the business.