In court papers he claims "Defendant never intended to marry plaintiff and used the relationship as a means to get to plaintiff's money and acquire gifts".
Newly acquired gift cards are scanned to check their value, catalogued and bar-coded for easy search.
He enjoys acquiring rare gifts for her on his travels.
Another gifting startup, Giftiki, which pooled together people's money to get gifts, was acquired by Launchrock.
Yup, it's as touristy as it gets, but countless visitors have made the five-mile pilgrimage from Cork City to this impressive tower to kiss the legendary Blarney Stone (by some thoroughly unreliable accounts, a fragment of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall) in hopes of acquiring the gift of gab.
The movie, to be released later this month, explains how radioactive ooze in a New York City sewer caused a clutch of ordinary turtles to mutate, acquiring the gift of speech in the process--but don't expect too many details here.
Gadgets acquired as gifts can be especially problematic.
The so-called Lydian Hoard showed up on the international market and much of it was legitimately acquired through gifts by the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan.
Many of the pieces were commissioned and collected by sultans, viziers and other notables – including, during the Ottoman period, a number of women in the royal family; others were acquired as gifts or plunder.
Materials are also acquired through gifts, purchases, and donations from private sources and other government agencies (state, local, and federal), the library's Cataloging in Publication program (a prepublication arrangement with publishers), and exchanges with libraries in the United States and abroad.
