Sentence examples for by purchase from inspiring English sources

Such organizations would also benefit from profiling skills by purchase type.

On the side, chiefly by purchase, he assembled a collection of North American birds.

The company is the country's biggest credit card issuer by purchase volume.

By purchase and skillful alliance he also secured several holdings in the Netherlands.

He acquired several territories in the vicinity at opportune times by purchase or other peaceful means.

By purchase and condemnation, the county has assembled a total of almost 1,300 contiguous acres.

The museum acquired it mostly by purchase, using a donation by Camilla Chandler Frost, a trustee.

(How he got it, by purchase or in combat, is among the time's innumerable untold tales).

The Government can supply its needs by its own manufacturing or by purchase.

Some people call in advance to have their durian cut and ready by the time they pull up for a drive-by purchase.

This came as part of a wider refusal by the French government to handover these warships to their rightful "owners-by-purchase" — Russia.