Sentence examples for there he acquired from inspiring English sources

There he acquired descriptions like tough, shrewd, blunt, single-minded.

There he acquired administrative experience, fluency in Malay, and a reputation as a naturalist.

There he acquired slaves, thus substituting one form of oppression for another.

There he acquired great possessions in the valley of the Ebro by marriage with a Roman lady.

It was there he acquired his reputation as a ruthless businessman who cut jobs and introduced unpopular working practices.

There he acquired the nickname Ab, conferred by an executive who worried that the company's many Jewish clients would react negatively to an Arab name.

It was there that he acquired an early nickname – taxicab Charlie – for his reputed aversion to physical exercise and there too that he joined the SDP, then newly formed by moderate and rightwing Labour politicians averse to the leftwards direction that their old party was then taking.

His upper-middle class parents were wealthy enough to send him to the American school there, where he acquired a good grasp of English.

There, he had acquired "a fondness for the English landscape and for the ever-changing English light," he wrote in his coyly titled but amusingly upfront autobiography, "Reflections in a Silver Spoon" (Morrow, 1992).

There she acquired mythical status - prisoner 650 - whose wails haunted other inmates.

It was there, Mr. Fairfax said, that he acquired his love of nature — and his determination to bend it to his will.