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How to use the word divestiture in a Sentence?

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If the news [about a forced sale] is true, China will firmly oppose it, the sale or divestiture of TikTok involves technology export, and administrative licensing procedures must be performed in accordance with Chinese laws and regulations.

Shu Jueting

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It could be that the divestiture demand is the end of the discussion, but it’s also equally likely that the divestiture is a component of what CFIUS wants in terms of safeguarding national security, unless I’m in the room at CFIUS, it’s really hard to know where the discussions are, and frankly, what’s discussed in public does not often coincide with what’s going on around the table.

Harry Broadman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Divestiture usually means a change in ownership, so I think there's a question about whether or not this [ deal ] would comport with the requirement that this be a divestiture.

Harry Broadman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If they're maintaining separate business structures and infrastructure, it's much easier to have a divestiture in that circumstance than in where they're completely enmeshed and all the eggs are scrambled.

Joseph Simons

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Divesting these great brands wasn't an easy decision, this divestiture is yet another action we have taken to reshape and focus our portfolio, which will lead to reduced complexity, more targeted investment, and better growth.

Steve Cahillane

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are carrying out what can be seen as an internal divestiture of Facebook's data, facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data to their Facebook user accounts.

Andreas Mundt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If these companies cannot execute the divestiture(s) that gave investors' confidence on their future leverage profile, you would likely see less risk-tolerant investors trim or sell their positions.

Tim Dumois

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The process of his divestiture is going really well considering how complex it is, the real point of beginning will be when he departs from the company. That’s ground zero.

Joe Bastianich

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If Cigna-Anthem craters, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Justice Department agreeing to some kind of divestiture package.

Matthew Cantor

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With the highly accretive sale of Access, Devon's divestiture program is now complete with proceeds totaling $ 3.2 billion, surpassing the top end of our $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion guidance range.

Chief Executive Dave Hager

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Proceeds for the entire divestiture program are well on their way to achieving our previously announced range of $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion in 2016.

Chief Executive Dave Hager

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it will be a busy year for everyone in the industry, i expect to see a lot of restructuring and cost cutting work, debt for equity transactions, restructuring balance sheet type transactions, sales of assets, divestiture of non-key assets to further shore up (distressed miners') balance sheets.

Michael Ryan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The filing of the registration statement with the Philippine SEC is a first step in one of the alternatives CEMEX is exploring in the context of CEMEX's previously announced asset divestiture plan.

Cemex Philippines

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't feel the need to do a major acquisition or divestiture and I don't want the business distracted from growing earnings, we have five years plus of not growing earnings. We're not going to be a party to that anymore.

John Flannery

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we've seen over the past years is a trend toward mammoth beer behemoths in our market and the result has not been a happy one for many consumers, i would urge the Department of Justice to think beyond the divestiture that has been proposed.

Richard Blumenthal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’re done shrinking UTC with the completion of this divestiture.

Chief Executive Greg Hayes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're done shrinking UTC with the completion of this divestiture.

Chief Executive Greg Hayes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Agencies are becoming increasingly skeptical about whether you can remedy anti-competitive mergers by having some kind of divestiture.

David Balto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My sense is that investors believe that a more engaged CEO will be more inclined to execute value-creating transactions, including the possible divestiture of Sikorsky.

Keith Davis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.

William John Bennett

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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