Sentence examples for shortly acquired from inspiring English sources

Saʿīd first visited Zanzibar in 1828; he shortly acquired the only two properties on which cloves were then grown.

Goldman Sachs shortly acquired her unit, and she went on to work for Goldman and then Sandy Weill's Travelers in Hong Kong and New York, where, as she tells it, she grew disillusioned with Wall Street-style capitalism.

The report suggests that giving up the goal of EU membership, even if not formally, would have consequences "for democracy, inter-ethnic relations and for long-term economic investments".Luckily the western Balkans will shortly acquire one new ally in Brussels: Federica Mogherini, the Italian who is to be the EU's high representative for foreign policy.

The specimen was shortly thereafter acquired by the Royal Natural History Collection of Württemberg (the precursor of SMNS), but it appears to have been completely ignored by scientists and remained undescribed to date.

For example, adolescents may dare to enter a high-risk situation shortly after acquiring a gun; adolescents may engage in conflict with other youth shortly after arriving at a recreation center.

They went to the N.B.A. finals shortly after acquiring Gasol and won the title a year later.

Sam Saxton had hired a consultant to help him revamp his sales operation shortly after acquiring his company.

The Canadian government recently settled a dispute with United States Steel under those laws after the company shut down a Canadian steel maker shortly after acquiring it.

Shortly after acquiring the properties, the companies are voluntarily wound up, and the criminals then repurchase the property at a price considerably above the original purchase price.

Shortly after acquiring the venerable but financially ailing Tribune, Mr. Whitneywas escorted floor by floor through the building by a group including Mr. Smith, a sports writer whom he knew through horse racing.

Churchill started exploring for coal in East Kalimantan in 2008, shortly after acquiring a 75 percent stake in four licenses awarded to the Ridlatama Group, an Indonesian company Churchill had worked with in exploring for thermal coal, the kind sought by India and China.