Sentence examples for acquired cheaper from inspiring English sources

It also acquired cheaper office space and asked employees to take salary cuts.

(Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, reckons long-term profits from Asia will fall below half the bank's total, to 46%.) Having acquired cheap troubled banks, such as Brazil's Bamerindus in 1997 and South Korea's Seoulbank this year, HSBC is conscious of big strategic holes notably in America and continental Europe.

As crime rose and property values dropped on Davenport's west end, Goacher acquired cheap real estate, including a shack once known as Skipper's Popcorn Palace.

These modalities are suitable because they are easily acquired, cheap and provide high-resolution images.

Hertz and Avis may need to acquire "cheaper" startups in order to effectively compete with Uber.

As housing prices rise, retirees are motivated to sell their apartments with the goal of acquiring cheaper housing elsewhere with funds to spare.

As commander of the Army, Donayre was also accused of acquiring 50,000 American-made MREs — military rations — to supply troops deployed against Shining Path guerrillas in the Apurímac and Ene river valleys, instead of acquiring cheaper, locally-made alternatives.

Developers hope to acquire cheap land, put in a minimum of infrastructure and sell it.

Now that the markets are recovering, the managers say, acquiring cheap companies is more challenging.

Positioned between China and India, two huge and antagonistic neighbors, the regime has been able to play on their mutual suspicions to acquire cheap arms and make favorable trade deals.

Critics like John McGettrick, co-chairman of the Red Hook Civic Association, say that Mr. O'Connell has been more adept at acquiring cheap land from the government than in making good on his promises, citing a half-mile esplanade and a park that he has yet to deliver.