Sentence examples for acquiring positions from inspiring English sources

For all my recommendations in this column, I advise acquiring positions gradually.

Technology Crossover Ventures has become a major investing powerhouse over its 22-year-old history by funding relatively undiscovered but mature companies; buying sizable stakes in later-stage, venture backed companies; and acquiring positions in publicly traded tech companies that TCV sees as undervalued.

Last winter, he passed on acquiring position players, overpaid for several free-agent pitchers and basically kept intact a World Series team.

Hedge funds would have to pay more to acquire positions, as the market would learn of these acquisitions sooner.

The law firm has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to amend takeover rules to limit the ability of hedge funds to quickly acquire positions in companies.

Most freshmen Representatives aren't likely to have developed particularly strong constituent services, or to have acquired positions of power within the Congress.

"Stocks do not stay cheap as long as they used to, so I guess I would have a tendency to acquire positions faster than Jean-Marie would," Mr. de Vaulx said.

The "Wille spirit" was often publicly attacked, however, and, when a military law favoured by him failed to win popular support (1895), he resigned his recently acquired positions as head and chief instructor of the army.

The possibility of unequal economic outcomes motivates people to work harder, he argues, although at some point it can lead to the preservation of acquired positions, which causes economies to stagnate.

In recent months his Value Trust has also acquired positions in Tenet Healthcare, when it fell from $50 to $17; the home improvement retail chain Home Depot ; General Electric and Eastman Kodakak, "the only stock in the Dow industrials to make a 52-week high.

We witnessed educated, business-savvy women acquire positions of power.