Or acquire through merit; to bring about or cause deservedly.
Amblypygids lives are centered on the sensory information they acquire through their whips.
We see him only in old home movies and photographs, and we acquire, through the offhand recollections people who knew him, the barest sense of his life.
Knowing how to work successfully with other people is an essential life skill that we have tended to acquire through trial and error.
They also might require Schwab's most senior executives to hold onto some portion of the shares they acquire through stock options, Mr. Pottruck said.
Kashf, (Arabic: "uncovering," "revelation"), in Sufism (i.e., Islamic mysticism), the privileged inner knowledge that mystics acquire through personal experience and direct vision of God.
People with resources should set up – or, even better, acquire through hostile takeover – mass-circulation newspapers that champion democratic values, tolerance and restraint.
The bulk of attention has focused on financial aspects of these relationships, but conflicts may also arise in the legal obligations that faculty acquire through consulting contracts.
During those gatherings, the scouts and the front office will draw up a list of possible players whom they might be able to acquire, through free agency or trades.
But some states have also sought money from prisoners who have received larger sums, through an inheritance or legal settlements or, as in Mr. Dawkins's case, money they acquire through their own initiative.
When Tajiri leaked the fact that he had hidden a secret 151st Pokémon in the game, Mew, a character one could only acquire through trading, the rumours streaked across playgrounds and sales doubled.
