It has been influenced by analogy (sometimes sensible, sometimes mistaken) with other words already in the language – "could", for instance, acquired its "l" because of its association with "would" and "should".
Primary Wave, for instance, acquired a 25% stake in the song catalog of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain last year and more recently acquired a financial interest in the publishing rights of Earth, Wind & Fire frontman and principal songwriter Maurice White, and Darryl Hall and John Oates of Hall & Oates fame.
For instance, acquiring a blood sample from a chimp can require a "knockdown," or shooting it with a tranquilizer gun.
Without breaking a sweat, you could, for instance, acquire a Giorgio Armani textured navy silk blazer ($2,495), a coal-colored Emporio halter T-shirt decorated with a large silvery beetle ($345), an Armani tennis racket ($425), and a black cut-glass sphere that looks like a bowl but is really a vase ($2,065).
Springsteen's "The Last to Die", for instance, acquires a more implacable, driving momentum to match the glimpses of apocalyptic flight snatched from a car window, and "Inside a Dream" takes a William Blake couplet as its theme, but to less elevated ends, drolly describing dreams as a world that "looks familiar, feels obscene".
For instance, acquiring users via downloads is meaningless if people aren't using your product.
For instance, acquiring two carotenoid biosynthetic genes from fungi endowed the pea aphids with red body color, based on which the variation between green and red aphids is further driven by the predators and parasites [ 18].
Such a performance is achieved by transforming the signal at the analog front-end in order to produce two or more instances characterized by reduced bandwidth; the different instances are acquired by means of less demanding ADCs and combined to regain a digital representation of the input signal over the original bandwidth.
To calculate this parameter, each SU kept track of the instances it tried to access channel i, (epsilon ^{text {tot}}_{textit {ij}}) and the instances it acquired channel i, (epsilon ^{text {acq}}_{textit {ij}}).
