Sentence examples for group acquiring from inspiring English sources

The move by Mr Jones follows Shop Direct, the home shopping group, acquiring Woolworths to run it as an online-only brand in early 2009.

It is not that anyone is more sanguine about the possibility of a terror group acquiring enough nuclear material to set off an atomic bomb in an American city.

During a question-and-answer session, Efraim Halevy, the former head of the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, said the greatest nuclear threat in the short term would be a terrorist group acquiring a nuclear weapon.

"I do gather that there was quite a bit of mistrust and hesitancy on the part of the locals toward any large religious group acquiring the property at that point in time".

So since cesium can be stolen from a hospital and thus can be more easily acquired than, say, uranium or plutonium, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine a terrorist group acquiring enough cesium to construct a barrage of low-explosive, highly radioactive bombs and blanketing a major city with them.

In addition, management costs can also be higher because the conservation group acquiring the land either has to manage it themselves or find someone else to undertake this for them.

The Universal Music Group, a division of Vivendi, bought EMI's recorded-music business, and a Sony-led group acquired EMI's publishing assets.

One of our group acquired a tiny gun.

The private equity group acquired the ailing EMI last year for £3.2bn.

The group acquired the note at a "significant discount," Mr. Daibes said.

Another landmark deal followed in 2000 when the merged group acquired Paine Webber, an American brokerage and asset management firm.