Sentence examples for some sort of acquisition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Son said he was not surprised by the arrival of Mr. Ergen, who has publicly amassed a cash hoard that many assumed would finance some sort of acquisition.

The idea, akin to the one that spawned Britain's doomed South Sea Company in the 18th century, was to float a shell company and raise capital from investors to make some sort of acquisition in the future.

It will entail some sort of acquisition".

Though rumors of its interest in the American firm have been around for some time, analysts suggested that Deutsche Telekom needed to make some sort of acquisition in the United States, though perhaps on a smaller scale.

Hardwick added that Unilever's gains pointed to increased speculation concerning the firm's future activity, "be it activist shareholder or some sort of major disposal or acquisition".

"We're going to continue to go step by step, and not take big leaps with some sort of a spectacular mega-acquisition," Mr. de la Fuente said.

But the 2011 takeover was the sort of acquisition that tarred private equity firms in the public mind as corporate raiders out to make a fast dollar.

"With around 40 employees at Mojang, this is the sort of acquisition which can easily get lost in a huge organisation like Microsoft, and this factor is probably the main threat to longer term success".

And it doesn't even mean that they haven't had some low-level conversations about some sort of bigger deal, maybe even an acquisition.

"What they really need to do is put some sort of implementation plan in place before the acquisition," said Pete Collins, director of the survey, so that everyone "really knows what their role is going to be".

So this acquisition will provide some sort of exit for founders and investors, whatever the under-lying terms of the deal.