Sentence examples for acquiring for the from inspiring English sources

Ms True was facing trial in Rome on charges of acquiring for the Getty classical items illegally looted from Italian graves.

Meanwhile he worked on his war memoir, acquiring for the purpose a research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, effective (for a seven-year term) in November 1919.

Michelson interferometer for passive atmospheric sounding (MIPAS) is operating on board of the ENVISAT satellite and is acquiring for the first time high spectral resolution middle infrared emission limb sounding spectra of the Earth atmosphere from space.

Mr. McMillin said that Unilever's purchase of Ben & Jerry's for $326 million and Slim-Fast Food Companies for $2.4 billion, both announced on April 12, may have given Bestfoods the impression that Unilever had done all its acquiring for the year.

Second, we acquired for the sake of acquisition, mindlessly consuming.

The American rights were acquired for the Atlantic Monthly Press by Ann Godoff, the editor in chief.

One leaf of sketches for the "Macbeth" opera was acquired for the Beethoven House in Bonn.

Some of his work has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection.

If the government has its way, these lands will be acquired for the corridor too.

It recently handed over some of the houses compulsorily acquired for the project to homeless people.

We've recently moved house and acquired, for the first time, an attic landing.