Sentence examples for acquire sea from inspiring English sources

While Harper continues to acquire Sea King helicopters and rushes to build new ships for the country's aging navy, Putin is stocking up on supersized icebreakers, constructing 40 new naval vessels including a brand new nuclear attack submarine and an intercontinental ballistic missile system that is supposed to be ready by 2018, all while refurbishing old Soviet military bases in the Far North.

The Brunswick Corporation said yesterday that it had acquired Sea Pro Boats and Sea Boss Boats for $51 million to add to its line of saltwater fishing craft.

As the North West trade developed it became riskier to depend solely upon acquiring sea otter furs through trade with the indigenous people of the coast.

In the long run, however, they may prove valuable to countries like Japan and India with few energy sources on land.For many countries, though, the first booty from any newly acquired seabed will be either oil or gas, both of which can now be extracted fairly easily from deep water.

Much of Kruger's efforts over the next year were dedicated to attempts to acquire a sea outlet for the South African Republic.

In 1977, the Indian government approved of plans to acquire the Sea Harrier for the Indian Navy; prior to this, rumours reportedly were circulating of a potential Indian purchase of the Soviet V/STOL-capable Yak-36.

Perhaps it was acquired at sea, the box stacked below who knows what on a ship that went the opposite direction we had: Mediterranean, Atlantic, Pacific.

And Shakespeare wasn't above the odd geographical blunder: he seems to imagine Milan as a port, while in The Winter's Tale, landlocked Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic) inexplicably acquires a sea – an error mocked by his friend and rival Ben Jonson.

With what little money he had, and what little English he could speak, Holer built two water tanks and acquired three sea lions.

I had quite literally jumped off the deep end and, after a few desperate splashes, started to acquire a set of sea legs.

BRUNSWICK CORP., Lake Forest, Ill., maker of Sea Ray and Bayliner boats, said it had acquired Land 'N' Sea Corp., Pompano Beach, Fla., a distributor of marine parts and accessories, for a combination of cash, notes and other consideration valued at $52 million.