Sentence examples for acquired like from inspiring English sources

For years, the department stores that Macy's acquired, like Marshall Field's and Filene's, had relied on 15- and 20-percent-off coupons to alert people, like a Pavlovian bell, that it was time to shop.

Religion, race, language and nationality are the customary verticals passed down from parent to child; horizontal refers to traits in a child that are foreign to the parents, either inherent, like a physical disability, or acquired, like criminality.

Some of the treasures he acquired, like the stained glass wall between his bedroom and bathroom, came from architectural salvage dealers; others came from grand old mansions in the area that, from his work with the Danvers Preservation Commission, Mr. Archer knew were coming down.

Now a growing number of Filipino peasants here are joining political activists to fight Mr. Cojunangco's "corporative," condemning it as a artful dodge imposed on them to retain land Mr. Cojuangco acquired, like his stake in San Miguel, during the corrupt rule of President Ferdinand E. Marcos that ended with his overthrow in 1986.

It should be noted that the scrambling code from the NodeB can be easily acquired like any UMTS terminal does.

That discomfort faded, however, as she found that these were skills that could be acquired like any other.

One widely cited model of how humans acquire liking for different foods is flavour nutrient learning, where associations between the orosensory properties of the ingested food or drink (the flavour CS) and positive consequences of nutrient ingestion (the UCS) lead to acquired liking for the flavour (flavour nutrient hedonic learning: FNL-H).

And he's acquiring like crazy.

Those candidates are shunning $35,000 junior-level ad jobs and flocking to deep-pocketed online giants like Google and the ad agency startups they're acquiring, like Aquantive, which Microsoft recently bought for $6 billion.

And the phenomenal rise of eBay Motors has had its most profound effect on hard-to-find cars like the Mini and cars that take months if not years to acquire, like AMG Mercedes, Ferraris, Porsches and M-edition BMWs.

Google is now in the final stages of acquiring Like.com, we've heard from multiple sources, for something north of $100 million.