Sentence examples for acquisition against from inspiring English sources

The crop of starting pitching is thin, forcing them to weigh a possible acquisition against what Colon or Garcia could be reasonably expected to provide over the next two and a half months.

After a particularly poor performance in a 3-3 home draw with Burnley shortly before Hughes was sacked, the manager was forced to make a strong defence of the £12m acquisition against claims from the Match of the Day pundits that Bridge's match mark was "minus six".

(Technical note: Gucci is amortizing the nearly $100 million of goodwill created by the Severin Montres acquisition against earnings over 20 years, half the time required by U.S. accounting standards).

There is a complex regulation to balance effector immune reactions and tolerance acquisition against commensal microbiota, and the dysregulated activation of immune system results in the development of colitis.

Its foreign buying spree was spurred by an accounting rule that allowed businesses to write off the cost of acquisitions against tax a loophole closed after the European Commission ruled that it amounted to illegal state aid.

Ms. Gerstenblith also criticized the spirit of the guidelines, which speak primarily of the museums' need to balance acquisitions against potential harm to their reputations or to their finances should they have to return a valuable object that is later found to have been looted.

The biggest deal, and eventually the largest acquisition charged against earnings, started on Oct. 1, 1997, when Mr. Ebbers telephoned Bert C. Roberts Jr., then the chief executive of the MCI Communications Corporation, who was already entertaining a $19 billion bid from British Telecommunications.

This is achieved by comparing the analysed measured results obtained from the data acquisition modules against the rule-based RVS machine maintenance algorithms coded on the block diagram of the LABVIEW® software.

MRI spatial resolution is limited by gradient coil performance and the time needed for image acquisition balanced against patient tolerance and motion-induced artefacts.

It generates images with few artefacts, but its long acquisition time is against the speed requirement of fMRI.

This acquisition goes hard against the computer industry conventional wisdom: software is king, hardware is (sooner or later) a commodity.