Sentence examples for collections away from inspiring English sources

To wrest major art collections away from Sotheby's and Christie's, LVMH invested large sums to procure art.

Determined to snag big collections away from the competition, it is offering guarantees, the undisclosed minimum sums that are promised to sellers regardless of a sale's outcome.

For some of us this is a wormhole that never closed, but for those sane enough to throw their CD collections away with their MySpace profiles, it meant a lot of skeletons and a lot of closets.

The American Center thus reopened, after having earlier given its book collections away, including to recipients in Kosovo.

Although Courbet painted The Origin of the World in 1866, Art historian Thierry Savatier told VICE News that controversy surrounding the painting only started in the 90s, when the picture was first acquired by a museum, after years of passing through private collections, away from the public eye.

These collections thus clearly predate the first inland Oryza collections away from cultivated rice fields (first one in 1869, see the Results section), and show that early explorers used to collect grasses as well as any other plants.

Is money an ultimate goal in life?" "[Uli Sigg] spent most of his life collecting the world's best Chinese contemporary art, and eventually, he gave the collection away to Hong Kong's M+ Art Museum for almost no money," Wei continues.

"I thought it was a rather beautiful gesture to give this collection away, benevolent and philanthropic.

But with a driver's license came adult freedom, and Mr. Fazel tucked his collection away.

But the dainty high-heeled shoes led the collection away — perhaps too far — from that brisk, daytime reality.

But since he always intended to give his collection away, the public benefits from his canny and passionate acquiring.