Sentence examples for but acquired from inspiring English sources

It was more successful with French electricals retailer BUT, acquired in 2008, which has since grown market share.

The castle is medieval all right, but acquired, not inherited.

He saved the leg but acquired a limp.

In Khal's view, "excessive wealth – which is not God-given but acquired – results in serfdom.

Eminent Victorians had, says Holroyd, begun "without a thesis, but acquired a theme" because of the war.

The racial descriptor does not seem to have originated as a pejorative, but acquired a negative connotation over time.

"But acquired rights are being threatened by repeated attacks by Salafist groups on those they consider infidels or on behavior they deem contrary to Islamic morality".

American individualism was universalist and idealist but acquired a harsher edge as it became infused with elements of social Darwinism (i.e., the survival of the fittest).

By the Treaty of Campo Formio (October 1797), Austria gave up the Austrian Netherlands and Lombardy but acquired much of Venice.

Merkel said that if, for example, someone came to Germany from eastern Europe and worked only for a short time but acquired a lifelong claim on welfare benefits, "then I see a question about which we must talk again".

With typical Joffrey gumption and considerable help from an expanding group of supporters in Chicago with high-powered civic connections, the company has not only survived but acquired a presence here that it never had in New York.