In considering the force of instinct in animals he was obliged to divest will of reason.
We recommend that it also divest five smaller stores where adverse effects would result from the merger.
The question arises how an agreement between shareholders, outside the confines of a formal liquidation, can divest a company of its property?
According to the Catholic theologian Gregory Baum, the Church must divest itself of religious triumphalism.
Frowning with vexation at the effort necessary to divest himself of his coat and trousers, the prince undressed, sat down heavily on the bed, and appeared to be meditating as he looked contemptuously at his withered yellow legs.