Sentence examples for in effect, acquired from inspiring English sources

But, as Richard Aboulafia, a noted industry analyst with the Teal Group, told me, "McDonnell Douglas in effect acquired Boeing with Boeing's money".

But, as Richard Aboulafia, a noted industry analyst with the Teal Group, told me, "McDonnell Douglas in effect acquired Boeing with Boeing's money". McDonnell Douglas executives became key players in the new company, and the McDonnell Douglas culture, averse to risk and obsessed with cost-cutting, weakened Boeing's historical commitment to making big investments in new products.

Courthouse filings say Anderson in effect acquired the judgments, apparently for a small payment.

Lotte Shopping, the biggest department store operator in South Korea, confirmed Monday morning that it had agreed to buy a controlling stake in Hong Kong-listed Times Ltd. "We have in effect acquired Times, though some processes [to complete the deal] remain," said a spokesperson for Lotte Group, parent company of Lotte Shopping.

Since it inherited all former East German state holdings in July, in effect acquiring 95percentt of the economy, the Treuhandanstalt has sold or restructured only 700 industrial companies and a few thousand retail and service businesses.

But now that agreement has been reached, Alcatel will, in effect, acquire Lucent in an all-share deal worth €30 billion ($36 billion) that values the American firm at $13.5 billion.

Fig. 3B shows that the beer stimulus transferred its' suppressive effect acquired in discriminative extinction training to the new beer response (R3) in the transfer stage.

By refitting its two 248-metre-long Izumo-class vessels, which can each carry up to 14 helicopters, Japan would in effect be acquiring its first aircraft carriers since the end of the war – a move critics say violates its postwar constitutional commitment to a purely defensive role for the military.

At crucial moments, the stories in "Nancy Culpepper" have a similar effect, acquiring the sudden heft of surprisingly painful emotion.

Heritable effects acquired in cell culture can have a genetic basis and plants with such effects are sometimes used in plant breeding [31], [32].

The officers were involved in "velvet reprivatisations", Shvartsman, a fund manager, said - in effect forcibly acquiring private companies at below-market value and transforming them into state-owned firms.