Sentence examples for before he acquired from inspiring English sources

That was before he acquired many billions of dollars.

I knew him before he acquired the title.

But he now admits that the taunt that stung most was inflicted well before he acquired a politician's thick skin.

Studios that were suffering six-figure losses before he acquired them are now in profit and film-makers are plying their trade in south-west London.

Peter Davis - his name before he acquired the title - had a major hand in turning Labour into an election-winning machine during the Wil son years.

Eminem, who is white, acknowledged that the lyrics were his but described them as the product of adolescent heartbreak, written before he acquired his fame.

There will be others who say, rightly, that, for example, on present going, it could be several years before he acquires a usable nuclear weapon.

Before entering politics, he acquired a great deal of experience in business, founding his own insurance company in 1896 and serving on the board of a large British sugar company during the 1890s.

He said one colleague compared him to Martin Shkreli, the deeply hated pharmaceutical executive who had to testify before Congress after he acquired the manufacturing license for a life-saving anti-parasitic drug and raised its price by 5,556 percent.

How he came to put the plan together is the stuff of Disney legend – the numerous trips he took in private jets disguised so that no one would spot him, the front companies he set up to buy the land also incognito, the 30,000 acres he acquired before anyone noticed.

Though he has never run for office before, he already has acquired the politician's unbridled optimism.