Sentence examples for functioning and acquisitive from inspiring English sources
Their fellow revolutionaries have gone the way of all bourgeoisie; they're functioning and acquisitive.
After that the best batting came at the end, with Andrew Flintoff thumping and Geraint Jones looking neat, poised and acquisitive.
Some of America's fresh-faced Internet firms have suddenly become frighteningly large and acquisitive.
Look for these baubles in glossy shelter magazines featuring the homes of the rich and acquisitive.
Not only were their jobs threatened and acquisitive passions blocked, but they acquired unfortunate reputations.
If it succeeds, pressure for change will increase from outsiders, including assertive investors and acquisitive competitors.
Management was adamant that opportunities for both organic and acquisitive growth were plentiful in the UK.
Supporters of free trade have been troubled by a growing backlash against cross-border trade agreements and acquisitive foreign companies.
Shire, a small, fast-growing and acquisitive drug company, will offer stock worth $37 for each share of BioChem Pharma.
But replicative success and acquisitive fitness do not necessarily require reproductive fitness from a biological standpoint.
He divides art into two subordinate kinds, productive and acquisitive, then continues to divide the acquisitive branch until he reaches the terminus, where he finds angling marked off as what it is, apart from everything else.
