Sentence examples for fortune to acquire from inspiring English sources
"Publishers are acquiring lots of authors, but not always really investing in what they acquire, especially when they haven't paid a fortune to acquire them," Solomon said.
"We are merely using our knowledge, which cost us all a fortune to acquire, and years and years of effort in our studies of human behavior and human relationships -- but we're not doing therapy in any form".
"It costs a bloody fortune to acquire a customer," says McCarthy.
That was when I had the extraordinary good fortune to acquire Isabel Allende's brilliant new novel The Japanese Lover as well as the rights to publish a new edition of The House of the Spirits.
The Cornfields — the location of the old Southern Pacific River Station and a freight yard — was prime but polluted real estate and would cost a fortune to acquire and clean up, the argument went, and was good only for warehouses and perhaps some big-box stores.
The political will to do so is even more elusive; the tech companies remain exceedingly popular, and they are using their vast fortunes to acquire political and cultural clout.
Gatsby is partly a creature of Nick's imagination, and conjures up his own idealized vision of Daisy (Carey Mulligan), the girl he left behind and acquired his ill-gotten fortune to win back.
Some say that Mr Batista's ultimate aim was to amass a fortune big enough to acquire his father's old firm, Vale, now a global giant.
This detonator marked the beginning of Nobel's reputation as an inventor as well as the fortune he was to acquire as a maker of explosives.
Shipping remains one of the top contributors to the country's €240bn (£210bn) economy with shipowners – who first made fortunes running the British naval blockade in the Napoleonic wars – long settling in the UK where their vast fortunes have enabled them to acquire some of London's finest properties, send their offspring to some of the best schools and even bankroll their favourite politicians.
