Sentence examples for stopped acquiring from inspiring English sources

Josef Blumenfeld, vice president of communications, said the company had temporarily stopped acquiring manuscripts.

By The New Yorker November 24, 2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has "temporarily stopped acquiring manuscripts".

The critics contend that if Tyco stopped acquiring companies, the operations might not look as good as Tyco's fans expected.

Another major art book publisher, Abbeville, cut back to the point that it stopped acquiring new books.

Peter Frelinghuysen began collecting as a young man, more than three-quarters of a century ago, but he had largely stopped acquiring new material by the 1960s.

In 2008, the publisher temporarily stopped acquiring new books, a move that alarmed the industry and fueled concerns about the company's viability.

I wanted to stop acquiring more, and enjoy what I already had – maybe even trim it back a bit.

Olivier Berggruen, a son of Heinz Berggruen, said his father could never stop acquiring even after selling most of his collection.

It should be seen as a salutary lesson but also as an opportunity for Iran, especially, and also Syria and Libya, to rethink their security and stop acquiring weapons of mass destruction (WMD though few suppose they will take it.But the fate of Iraq points the other way, does it not?

And they never stop acquiring new skills or insights that they can apply to new tasks.

Foreign mercenaries would return to their home countries and all parties would stop acquiring foreign arms.