Sentence examples for battle to acquire from inspiring English sources

The Knicks are also fighting an uphill battle to acquire Christian Laettner.

The battle to acquire Cordiant is far from a done deal.

Earlier this summer, NTT DoCoMo lost a battle to acquire another United States wireless operation, the VoiceStream Wireless Corporation.

Despite its best efforts, Apollo Global Management may find itself once again in a battle to acquire an amusement park company.

BEN PROTESSTHEME PARK BATTLE Apollo Global Management may find itself once again in a battle to acquire an amusement park company, according to the Deal Professor.

The announcement came just weeks after BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, walked away from a long battle to acquire Rio Tinto.

The conglomerates of Churchill Downs Inc. and the M. I. Entertainment Corporation, which is led by the industrialist Frank Stronach, are battling to acquire racetracks.

'Waterproof iPhone' ad hoax tricked users into destroying their handsets This Israeli startup was one of the hottest acquisitions of the year, with Apple and Google reportedly battling to acquire its technology, which uses crowdsourced traffic data to provide drivers with up-to-the-minute congestion information.

It's a fresh setback for the company, which is currently battling to acquire its rival Sanyo Electric.

From 1907 until 1920, legal battles to acquire parkland continued despite the 1907 Legislature passing a bill with language favoring railroads until courts rejected the legislation.

Great Universal Stores P.L.C. of Britain won a battle yesterday to acquire the Metromail Corporation, a direct marketing company, for $905 million, after a rival bidder failed to provide proof that it had the necessary financing.