Sentence examples for instead of acquiring from inspiring English sources

Instead of acquiring pupils and associates for his movement, Marinetti found himself up against sabotage and misunderstanding.

"Very early on, instead of acquiring new works, they started commissioning works from composers and artists," Ms. Hansen said.

Instead of acquiring $2000 worth of securities, as the rule now allows, they'd need to invest more than $7 billion in Apple.

Instead of acquiring all the farmland in this village, the farmers are demanding the road be expanded into a four-lane highway.

Thus, the recent thrust of Chinese policy has been to use foreign exchange reserves to finance investments by Chinese companies overseas instead of acquiring government debt.

The risk in this strategy is that Gannett goes away instead of acquiring Tronc, leaving the company to wither like Yahoo or find its own path to success.

Whatever happens, Mr. Bercowsky said, "Bimbo is taking an aggressive stance and is looking to acquire, instead of being acquired".

It is instead a way of acquiring knowledge and of finding the truth.

Instead of directly acquiring the geometric parameters of cladding layer and heat source for a concrete FE simulation through the measured data in experiments, this model is able to achieve temperature distributions for laser cladding with varying combinations of process parameters by constructing an adaptive cladding layer and moving heat source model using an inverse modeling approach.

Companies are investing in startups instead of just acquiring them.

Instead of tactically acquiring vibrant biotech companies with truly mission-oriented cultures or even innovating through good old-fashioned lab work, Pfizer is attempting to become the world's largest pharmaceutical enterprise through a complex financial initiative.