The phrase "acquire instead of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a preference for obtaining something in one way rather than another.
Example: "I decided to acquire instead of renting the equipment for the project."
Alternatives: "obtain rather than" or "get instead of".
One could for instance specify the minimum number of counts that should be acquired instead of the duration of the scan.
These applications can be indeed enhanced by providing a DOA estimate once a single sample is acquired instead of waiting for a larger number of measurements.
Because of corporate domination, Americans have increasingly lost community and autonomy, and have acquired instead the tyranny of institutionalization: domination by gigantic, impersonal, bureaucratic, standardized entities -- visible in large corporations, the workplace, health care, schools, and much of our lives.
"After a few conversations we decided it would make more sense to acquire them instead of just licensing the technology.
And Prathipati suggested that in the past, Salesforce has sometimes had to acquire technology instead of build it, for example with last year's purchase of RelateIQ.
Its model is similar to that of Kickstarter, but it gives funders a chance to acquire equity instead of products or prizes.
Asked why the Dodgers didn't acquire Frazier instead of the three prospects, Andrew Friedman explained that he didn't want to move Justin Turner to second base because Turner is recovering from a knee operation.
Our STAR approach proceeds similarly to nongated approaches where multiple fast images series are consecutively acquired, but instead of considering a set of parallel imaging planes, it involves 2D+T series acquired in imaging planes that share a common axis (Fig. 3(a)).
I wish that Karl could have spent time acquiring capital instead of just writing about it.
