The phrase "acquire out of" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear in its usage and does not fit standard English expressions.
Example: "I was able to acquire out of the deal after much negotiation."
Alternatives: "obtain from" or "gain from".
Once Alabama law allowed banks to acquire out-of-state banks, AmSouth bought dozens, and Birmingham grew from a steel manufacturing city into the nation's fourth-largest banking center.
Early experimental research on chimpanzee problem solving by the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler had chimps constructing tools to acquire out-of-reach objects; it was reported that chimpanzees would stack boxes or put together tubes to form a long rod in order to reach bananas hung overhead (Köhler 1925).
The experimental setup acquired out-of-plane (normal to the plane of the stringbed) bending, torsional and string-bed mode shapes that have been reported in past literature.
The issue is important not only nationally, but also locally, his aides say, because 85 percent of the guns used in crimes in New York City are acquired out-of-state.
The potential for sequential tool use in New Caledonian crows is likely to relate to general problem-solving abilities, rather than to an evolutionary adaptation for acquiring out-of-reach tools (which seems an unlikely scenario in their native forested habitat, where sticks are readily available).
Gosder Cherilus, Todd Herremans and Samson Satele headline the veteran busts that the team has acquired out of desperation.
Mr. Icahn struggled for years to turn around Trans World Airlines, which was acquired out of bankruptcy by American Airlines last year.
The property, H House, was acquired out of a distress situation and after eight years of tedious effort is now economically healthy.
Most of Grand Union's assets are being acquired out of bankruptcy-court protection by C&S Wholesale, Grand Union's main supplier, and many of the stores are being immediately resold.
"WE HAVE TO PICK SOMETHING NOW," I texted Olivier, after another fruitless afternoon perusing "Un Bébé, un Prénom," a book we'd acquired out of desperation.
The hospital's turnabout started in 2008 when it was acquired out of bankruptcy by a consortium of buyers in a deal valued at about $41 million.
