Sentence examples similar to acquiring port from inspiring English sources

Japan invested much of the indemnity money in expanding its fleet, while Russia began a major building programme ("For the Needs of the Far East") to defend its newly acquired port that included the Borodino-class battleships.

Japan invested much of the indemnity money in expanding its fleet, while Russia began a major building programme ("For the Needs of the Far East") to defend its newly acquired port.

With military and financial support from the States General (the Dutch national assembly), the company acquired ports on the west African coast to supply slaves for plantations in the West Indies and South America.

WASHINGTON, March 15 - The Dubai-owned company that acquired several port terminals in major East Coast cities confirmed Wednesday that it would sell those operations to an unrelated American buyer, ending speculation about the ambiguity in its previous statements that it would "transfer" the terminals to a "U.S. entity".

He and Loch offered to support Kruger in his plan to acquire a port at Kosi Bay and link it to the Transvaal through Swaziland if in return the Transvaal would enter a South African customs union and pledge not to expand northwards.

The Dubai-based firm acquired the ports through its purcahse of P&O.

Emmanuel Jean Pierre, 30, already has found that subsistence farming is not enough for him and has set up a small side business charging cellphones in the village using a solar battery he acquired in Port-au-Prince.

Add 15 mL of solution B and continue to boil till the contents acquire a port-wine color.

The ship was ordered as part of the "Programme for the Needs of the Far East", authorised by Tsar Nicholas II in 1898 to defend Russia's newly acquired ice-free port of Port Arthur in Manchuria.

Britain's laissez-faire approach was in evidence when Dubai Ports was allowed to buy P&O but was blocked by Washington from acquiring a number of American ports amid an uproar on Capitol Hill.

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