There followed decades of internal political strife among various settlements vying for supremacy and between pro- and anti-Byzantine factions; also involved were attempts by church authorities to acquire temporal influence.
As Bennie points out, it is common practice in western Europe for local authorities to acquire and assemble sites, plan them, invest in remediation and infrastructure as necessary to make them viable, and then develop them partly themselves and partly through selling plots to developers.
When municipal graveyards began to overfill Ware began negotiations with various local authorities to acquire land for further cemeteries.
Jennifer Hoyle, a spokeswoman for the city's law department, said the lawsuit "challenges the city's authority to acquire cemetery property for the airport expansion".
In addition to its right to regulate the sale, export or restoration of any property that is more than 50 years old and has artistic value, the state has the authority to acquire any such object that is being privately sold, as long as it pays an equal price.
Some scholars have summarized relationship types as follows: consultation of resource exchange, joint partnership, election, authority to acquire resources, and advocate for a marginalized group.
In response, Bruce proposed that the responsibility for all government debts, Commonwealth and state, and the authority to acquire new debt, should be handed over to a National Loan Council in which all states would have one vote and the Commonwealth would have two votes and the casting vote.
For example, while the authority to acquire land interests and water rights exists under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, lack of baseline data on flow regimes makes it difficult to determine how, when, and where to use this authority (Palmer and others 2008).
The Media Institute, a nonprofit research foundation that focuses on communications policy, warned in its filing that the court's order could be "be applied against media companies as government authorities seek to acquire access to confidential information stored on mobile devices used by journalists".
The king's chief official was called the vizier, the holder of this office started to acquire substantial authority during the reign of Irkab-Damu.
--Details on processes used by Palestinian Authority security forces to acquire weapons and equipment, either legally or illegally.
