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He argues that reading newspapers is a habit, like smoking, that is acquired early in life, maybe from watching Dad unfold this emblem of adulthood at the breakfast table; and if the habit is not acquired early, it is never acquired at all.The problem is competition—not specifically from any other medium, but, more generally, for people's time.
Moreover, a postural attitude is never acquired definitively even in quiet stance.
Many of these were synonyms (e.g., dysphemia C1096340 = stuttering C0038506); word variants (feeling guilty C0877289 = feeling guilt (finding) C0018379); abbreviations (hip dysplasia C1328407 = congenital acetabular dysplasia (disorder) C0431952 - hip dysplasia, by definition, is never "acquired").
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He's one of the most imaginative, agenda-setting designers on the planet, but his innovations are so diverse and plentiful, he's never acquired an easily definable signature style.
The photograph shows the bottom half of the antefix that is now in the museum, yet is paired with a different top half that was never acquired by the Getty.
ZingFu was never acquired.
His bait was to offer a guaranteed investment in stamps (that were never acquired), and for a time his happy customers got double their money back within months, all paid from new investors.
In this case it is likely that these extra genes were never acquired by the tcd-island of the ancestral strain.
Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
The museum is never likely to acquire a painting by Khnopff, but the drawing by him called "The Offering" (1891) has the hallucinatory, well-calculated precision that he brought to his paintings.
"It is not unusual for urban renewal plans to list properties proposed for acquisition where the properties are never actually acquired," Eric Bederman, a spokesman for the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, wrote in an e-mail.
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