Sentence examples for a lifetime acquiring from inspiring English sources

The kind of district-by-district understanding of the state that Mr. Genovesi spent a lifetime acquiring has less and less utility.

It doesn't have to be in your current line of work, but it should use the skills you have spent a lifetime acquiring.

Much of the meaning is derived from sound patterns that link one passage with another, so that Muslims who hear extracts chanted aloud thousands of times in the course of a lifetime acquire a tacit understanding that one teaching is always qualified and supplemented by other texts, and cannot be seen in isolation.

Writes Slack, "The great fortune that Hetty had spent her lifetime acquiring, saving and guarding against interlopers real and imagined slipped quietly out of the family's grasp".

Last October, Lifetime acquired a high-end Manhattan home-product design company called Use-Tools for Civilization.

Philip's father began collecting art in 1949 and over his lifetime acquired many well-known masterpieces including Vincent van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear" and Pablo Picasso's self-portrait "Yo, Picasso".

Although Vizzini throughout his lifetime acquired extensive land holdings, the Mafia historian Salvatore Lupo considers him to be the undertaker of the large feudal estates rather than the protector of that system.

From the outside, you could see the belongings of residents: a chair, televisions, closets, furniture the things people take a lifetime to acquire, lost in less than a minute.

I'm amused, this smile of his said, but nothing you say can touch me, because none of this really matters, not ultimately, and maybe one day you'll wake up and realize that everything you've spent a lifetime chasing and acquiring is, ultimately, beside the point.

Yet Minor aspires to own racetracks and sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire a portfolio of them.

Once- in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire an assignable lease on the largest privately owned lake in the Lake District.