That product takes great effort to acquire.
Several problems have beset the city's effort to acquire the school improvement grants.
But knowledge is a form of power that takes time and effort to acquire.
Any foreign effort to acquire Sprint or WorldCom could meet political resistance in this country.
Its covert effort to acquire the means to enrich uranium may date from that time.
The company said it was not aware of any specific investor effort to acquire the company.
In the shadow of the Holocaust, Israel made a determined and ultimately successful effort to acquire nuclear weapons.
In interviews over the past months, Syria's rebel have described a concerted effort to acquire and master such weapons.
Although the effort to acquire Compaq was successful, Fiorina subsequently struggled to manage the now sprawling enterprise.
Its effort to acquire Telecom Italia collapsed last year, and, most recently, it held talks to acquire Qwest.
Also extremely "disturbing," he says, is North Korea, which has a "dedicated national-level effort" to acquire germ weapons.
