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Example sentences for: acquire

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And if someone could acquire the land to build a private road beside a public one, we should not begrudge him because he removes some traffic from the common infrastructure.
7. "Boring headline of the week: 'Corning said it agreed to acquire Oak Industries in a stock transaction valued at about $1.
These contributions, were not, as was originally thought, designed to influence the outcomes of particular races such as Clinton's, but, says the paper, were part of a broad campaign to acquire American high technology.
--to those who are about to be freed from their debilitating dependency on government is to allow these giving individuals to acquire an economic interest in the nutrition, health, and skills of the former welfare recipients.
The government should weigh the value of this investment against the catastrophic cost America would face should such weapons find their way to the terrorists who are so anxious to acquire them.