Sentence examples for helping to acquire from inspiring English sources

Mr. Smulian testified that he began working for Mr. Bout in the late 1990s, helping to acquire a base in South Africa for Mr. Bout's air-transport operation, and that he later assisted Mr. Bout in setting up companies in Swaziland and Zambia.

Bureau investigators say they have little doubt that the six men held by Yemen, in a grim, neon-lit fortress on the Aden waterfront, were involved in the Cole bombing -- helping to acquire both a fiberglass skiff and a four-wheel-drive vehicle, installing explosives in the skiff and obtaining false documents used by the conspirators.

All they have to do is get local government officials to go along, with campaign contributions and the promise of an increase in local tax dollars helping to acquire eminent domain rights.

He helped to acquire more than 16,000 acres of mine-scarred land for reclamation.

Industry standards are to be ignored at Facebook (and Apple, Microsoft and sometimes Google) unless they help to acquire customers or to generate PR.

Of course imitation can help to acquire skill – and skill counts for a good deal (in fact skill is very nearly everything).

In the 1970s, Mr. Beck became director of the Franklin McLean Memorial Research Institute in Chicago, and helped to acquire a positron emission tomography, or PET, scanner, which is used in oncology and to show the function of the brain and heart.

The kingdom's young men and women a startling 75% of the population is under 30 must be helped to acquire skills to replace at least some of the 5m foreign workers.

There is no comparable agency to Brazil's Institute of Research and Urban Planning in Curitiba, which for more than 40 years has helped to acquire knowledge, undertake analysis and nurture transport schemes such as BRTS.

The aim of this article is to present a new approach to machine learning which helps to acquire knowledge when building expert systems.

The study demonstrated that the CNTs can help to acquire the uniform dispersion of SiC particles in the Al matrix, because of their interaction during ball milling and hot rolling processes.