Sentence examples for aggressively acquired from inspiring English sources

MR. KOTICK and Mr. Kelly moved the company to Santa Monica, Calif., and aggressively acquired development studios.

Since then, 3Com has continued to fall further behind its rival Cisco, which has aggressively acquired technology it needed to keep ahead of other competitors.

Rather than heavily invest in syndicated network dramas like "CSI" or "NCIS," which are shown on a continuous loop on other basic cable channels, FX has instead aggressively acquired theatrical movies.

Under the leadership of Jack Lane and then David Ross, it aggressively acquired works by artists like Piet Mondrian, Ren?agritte, Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg to fill its new galleries.

Over the next two decades, he aggressively acquired competitors to build the company into the world's dominant maker of mainframe utility software, the programs that help big computers run more efficiently.

Over the last decade, companies like Smithfield and Tyson Foods, the world's biggest meat company, have aggressively acquired rivals and gained size in an effort to increase profit and better serve big retailers, restaurants and fast-food outlets.

A little over a decade ago, Jim Hedges, a retired investment banker, began aggressively acquiring photos from the Warhol Foundation.

AOL has been aggressively acquiring properties, like Mr. Arrington's TechCrunch in 2010, in an effort to become a Web content conglomerate.

Facebook's response to this challenge so far has been to aggressively acquire companies focused on mobile, including Instagram, for which it paid $1 billion in April.

"This is a rare opportunity for Japanese companies to aggressively acquire foreign companies," Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten's founder and chief executive, said in a recent interview.

A year later, Alsop Architects was bought in its entirety by SMC, a publicly listed new architectural group that was then aggressively acquiring small regional British practices.