Sentence examples for early acquired from inspiring English sources

He early acquired some reputation as a portrait and landscape painter and made an adequate living.

It honors Boston's Puritan legacy and also the sense of history this city so early acquired: it looked old the day it opened.

Abraham helped to clear the fields and to take care of the crops but early acquired a dislike for hunting and fishing.

Catherine, in adolescence an invalid, was educated principally at home, and early acquired some competence in the theology of her day.

As the serventois, for example, a poem in honour of the Virgin Mary, it early acquired, then lost, the refrain; similar varieties were the amoureuse ("love poem"), the sotte amoureuse ("playful love poem"), and the sotte chanson ("comic poem").

They often aided in the transition from narrow aristocracy to more democratic constitutions, but the Greeks in principle chafed under their illegal autocracy; tyranny thus early acquired a bad name, and tyrannicides such as Harmodius and Aristogiton, who killed Hippias' brother Hipparchus at Athens, received the highest honours.

Hoxha must have known that Soviet youth would never read it, and thus With Stalin early acquires an eerie tone, suggestive of a disembodied voice ranting to itself in darkness, an impression that persists throughout the rest of the book.

In 2000, Bruce Wasserstein sold Wasserstein Perella & Company to Dresdner Bank of Germany, which had earlier acquired the British merchant bank Kleinwort Benson.

In the mid-1980s Transamerica began selling off the travel and manufacturing subsidiaries it had earlier acquired in order to concentrate on expanding its core of financial-service operations.

The price seems to have been a huge and unusual discount, analysts say, since HSBC had two months earlier acquired its 10 percent stake for about $1.60 a share, according to public filings.

Tuukka Rask made 32 saves for the Bruins, who earlier acquired the three-time All-Star defenseman Tomas Kaberle from Toronto for the prospect Joe Colborne and two draft picks.