Late last month, John J. Sweeney, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., wrote Stanley Works directors to ask them to stop trying to acquire a Bermuda mail drop "before you inflict serious harm on Stanley Works, its shareholders and employees".
He systematically works his way through the intricacies of a plot that speeds along like a bullet train, stopping only to acquire complications from Harry's shadow investigation into a corrupt fellow officer who got away from him in a previous novel, "Nemesis".
When will you stop encouraging New Yorkers to acquire pets for all the wrong reasons ("Petworking," Oct. 22).
We stopped at nothing to acquire the finest hops money could buy, then packed them into this beer in dangerous quantities.
In "Tree of Rivers," Hemming charts the near wholesale destruction of Amazonian Indians by men who saw no value in the rain forest beyond rubber and slaves — and stopped at nothing to acquire them.
Each acquisition loops through this same series of events until the control computer stops directing the camera to acquire images.
A number of legislators, including Nicholas Soames, a Conservative, said Wednesday that in light of the recent developments, the government should intervene to delay or even stop Mr. Murdoch's plan to acquire all the shares of BSkyB.
He added that the probe into the Orlando shooter would have to take in whether "there was anything from the FBI investigations that might have stopped him being able to acquire a firearm.
Captain Rogers led a scouting expedition from Fort Edward on January 15, stopping at Fort William Henry to acquire provisions, snowshoes, and additional soldiers.
Deborah Buck, who owns Buck House, an antique shop in Carnegie Hill, Manhattan, said that about a year ago, she stopped using her credit cards to acquire most of her inventory and pay for her travel.
