Sentence examples for competed to acquire from inspiring English sources
At Christie's, on February 16th, 11 telephone bidders from eight countries competed to acquire Yan Pei-Ming's painting of Mao Zedong.
In that time, the two companies have competed to acquire several start-ups, and Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, left Apple's board.
General Dynamics and the Northrop Grumman Corporation are competing to acquire Newport News.
"I said those are my wife's shares and you can't just sell them and Ms. Roberts said, 'Oh yes we can.' " The lawsuit asserts that when SBC began selling the AirTouch shares, SBC management "knew or should have known" that their value would rise because Bell Atlantic and Vodaphone were competing to acquire AirTouch.
It's no longer Google, Facebook and Yahoo that are competing to acquire the best and the brightest startups in Silicon Valley.
"We are at a unique point in history, where any two people can create a new startup and have a nearly certain chance of at least modest success," says McClure. "Even if the product fails completely, Google and Facebook will compete to acquire the team and investors will at least get their money back".
In Diamond Trust of London, two business firms in London and Antwerp compete to acquire diamonds while United Nations inspectors loom.
With the game presently being dominated by the "crew" every label is frantically competing to acquire the most talent in order to assemble the most formidable roster.
"Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement," Paul wrote.
Since iron is often a limiting nutrient, especially in the marine environment, microorganisms will compete to acquire this metal through various mechanisms including increased siderophore production.
The general attitude was that startups were minor-league players competing to be acquired by big-league multinationals.
