Sentence examples for stone acquired from inspiring English sources

Remember that this spring Rosetta Stone acquired Seattle-based online language-learning community Livemocha for $8.5 million in cash.

Just this week Rosetta Stone acquired Seattle-based online language-learning community Livemocha for $8.5 million in cash.

Rosetta Stone acquired Lexia Learning earlier this summer for $22.5 million with the intention of transitioning from a language company to a learning company.

In short, when shopping for colored gems and diamonds, insist on full disclosure about how the stone acquired its color, get those disclosures written on paper, and explain that you will have an independent appraiser test the stone to be sure that the disclosures are accurate.

There are also bibelots and jewels of startling opulence, including the Queen's 1820 diamond diadem (the one on the coins), and staggeringly pointless Fabergé ornaments in enamel and semi-precious stones acquired by Queen Alexandra, each an icily sterile re-creation of a twig or a sprig of blossom.

In February 1912 Stones acquired the fourteen tied houses of Chambers Brunswickk Brewery in Sheffield.

Other stones acquire salts from the environment, such as during burial, when they are exposed to groundwater laden with salt, or when they are exposed to water that has peculated through natural or man-made material (such as gypsum or cement) that also contains large amounts of salt.

She had lost several stone and acquired armfuls of tattoos, a mountainous beehive hairdo and, it was rumoured, drug and alcohol problems.

In 1970, Hayden Stone was acquired by Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt, whose partners included two men who now are among the most powerful in the industry: Sanford I. Weill, chairman of Citigroup, and Arthur Levitt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It is sad that stone has acquired such limited and miserable artistic meanings for us – and it is deeply revealing about British politics that Miliband has adopted the narrow geological symbolism of our plastic age.

At this point, the player has to choose between the Team, Wits, or Fists Path, which influences the way the stones are acquired.