Sentence examples for failed to acquire this from inspiring English sources

Due to bitter cultural divisions between French and Flemish speakers in Belgium, the country failed to acquire this major masterpiece, which allowed the Getty Museum in 1987 to make the courageous, even ballsy, decision to add this "scandalous" image to its collection of Old Master paintings.

If the hippocampus is important for making discriminations based on the length of objects, then the hippocampal group should fail to acquire this preference.

"We'll see," Thomas said, when asked if he had failed to acquire the right kind of players.

Indeed, BellSouth's stumble two years ago, when it tried and failed to acquire the long-distance company Sprint for $100 billion, is now looking a lot like a lucky break.

Mr. Peralta said that if he failed to acquire the Angels, he would look for another team, focusing on franchises in cities with large Hispanic populations.

(Gardner had tried, but failed, to acquire the actual toy that a protester threw at the region's chief executive in 2013).

Now, the San Diego Padres are said to be up for sale, with some of the people who failed to acquire the Dodgers now interested.

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Ever since Facebook tried and failed to acquire the messaging startup in 2008, relations have been strained.

DCs generated in the presence of rtv also failed to acquire the typical phenotype of mature DCs (mDCs), and secreted lower amounts of IL-12 and IL-15.

Earlier this year Cooke bid for but failed to acquire the Evening News Assn. in Detroit, publisher of the Detroit News.