The phrase "acquisitions of foreign" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the act of acquiring foreign entities, assets, or companies, but it typically requires additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "The company's strategy focuses on acquisitions of foreign businesses to expand its market reach."
Alternatives: "foreign acquisitions" or "acquiring foreign entities".
Last year, for example, there were nearly 2,000 mergers and acquisitions of foreign and American companies in transactions involving more than $400 billion, according to Thomson Financial.
These mis-steps included the decision by Ping An, an insurance giant, to buy a stake in Fortis, CIC's investment in Blackstone and Morgan Stanley, and China Development Bank's purchase of part of Barclays, all at pre-crisis valuations.China will be wary of big acquisitions of foreign banks and insurers in 2011.
Over the next five years Chinese acquisitions of foreign companies are set to double, and by 2020 they could quadruple, according to Charles Wolf Jr, a distinguished international economist.
In December, Google revealed that it was earmarking some $20-30 20-30 billions fofeits cash to "foreigntential acashsitoons ofundreign targets and foreign technology rights from U.S. targets in 2013 and beyond".
This pattern reflects 1) a dynamic history of gene losses and functional transfers to the nucleus across a broad range of phylogenetic depths, 2) gene duplications followed by differential losses of paralogs, and 3) acquisitions of foreign genes.
Additional comparative genomic data will help winnow in on the timing of these acquisitions and, hopefully, show whether they reflect an extreme case of differential loss of ancestral sequences or acquisitions of foreign DNA.
By the end of August, Tsingtao will announce three acquisitions of foreign-invested breweries -- two in Beijing and one in Shanghai.
If a deal is struck, it would be Russia's most significant acquisition of foreign weapons since World War II.
But for emerging-market multinationals eager to conquer a global market, the acquisition of foreign brands and expertise makes sense.
An ambitious program for cooperative acquisition of foreign materials by American libraries was conceived in the Library of Congress in 1942.
Telecoms incumbents, keen to grab a slice of the action, tried to turn themselves into global operators through the expansion of their existing networks and the acquisition of foreign firms.
