Sentence examples for official acquisition from inspiring English sources

But Chandler, a 7-foot-1 center, could arrive as soon as Saturday, once all the dominoes fall that have to precede his official acquisition: using the amnesty clause to release Chauncey Billups and trading Ronny Turiaf.

Oculus confirms to me that this is an official acquisition.

Of course, companies talk to one another all the time and as far as we know there haven't been any official acquisition offers from Skype at this point.

Everyone knew that Skype would eventually make its way to the market's #4 mobile OS even before the official acquisition, but the company has remained mum about anything resembling specific detail.

While federal government claims that the official federal acquisition budget is only $500 billion a year.

[A1.] Air Force officials violated acquisition rules in a rush to approve a $23 billion plan to acquire aircraft from the Boeing Company, the Pentagon inspector general said.

The e-mail messages were addressed to a long list of senior officials, including Michael W. Wynne, the Pentagon's top acquisition official; Nancy L. Spruill, another top acquisition official; Gen. John Jumper, the Air Force chief of staff; and others involved in the debate about how the Pentagon should respond to Boeing's decision to dismiss the officials involved in the tanker deal.

In a response to the office, John J. Young Jr., the Pentagon's top acquisition official, said department officials had "instituted several major changes that are beginning to show results".

Ashton B. Carter, the Pentagon's top acquisition official, warned in February that the largest military contractors would not be allowed to merge.

Last March, the most senior acquisition official in the Defense Department, Ashton Carter, testified before Congress that Pratt & Whitney had been awarded a noncompetitive contract for the engine.

But Nancy L. Spruill, a Pentagon acquisition official, added in a letter to the auditors that the military was determined to "address cost growth where it is real and unacceptable".