Sentence examples for acquire a life from inspiring English sources
Climactic late kick offs acquire a life of their own.
But the more protracted Israel's conflict with the Palestinians becomes, the greater the risk that the violence and anger at Israel will acquire a life of its own.
Worse, they tended to "acquire a life of their own … and prove difficult and unpopular to stop, even when the benefit-cost equation does not stack up".
Vaccine-induced antibodies to envelope proteins frequently cause HIV seroconversion in uninfected recipients of HIV vaccine candidates and may thus have an impact on the vaccinee's ability to donate blood or acquire a life insurance policy.
So brilliant and accurate was Sullivan's writing that these people really did acquire a life of their own; they only had to appear to fulfil every expectation we had of them, a rare quality in any drama.
Even more persuasive is the reality that neither officials nor journalists can ever be sure of the consequences of publication: facts once distributed, like seeds in a garden, acquire a life of their own with consequences that can be salutary, malignant, both, or neither.
The connoisseur was directed to acquire a "life-size Negro, dressed in the latest fashion, and sprawling in a cane chair".
If I am lucky I will acquire a life-threatening illness such as cancer so that I can refuse treatment and say no to those who would keep me alive against my will.
More than half of all patients will experience recurrence, yet of these recurrences, only 10 15% will develop a subsequent muscle-invasive tumour and therefore acquire a life-threatening disease.
I had, to use our educational buzzword du jour, acquired a "life skill".
