acquiring

How To Use acquiring In A Sentence

• She would also be acquiring a capital asset.
• (Under the Indian constitution nontribal people are prohibited from directly acquiring land in certain parts of the country, so the government must obtain it on their behalf and sell it to the companies.) India's Dirty War
• The Illegal Eagles have progressed from playing the small local club circuit to acquiring a reputation for themselves at major concert venues.
• Anyone who is sexually promiscuous is of increased risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection.
• If a pile rises to 160 degrees or more it could spontaneously combust, which is why the zoo is acquiring a thermometer to measure internal temperature of its manure piles. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
• Another is the difficulty in acquiring the ability to relax. Times, Sunday Times
• Language is acquiring increased visibility in the field of cognitive science.
• Prescription (a slight modification of the older usucaption) is the dispensing with evidence of title, and is acquisitive when it is the means of acquiring Ownership and extinctive (divestitive) when it bars a right of action. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• Certainly, if I were an airline employee, I'd be looking into acquiring some new skills.
• Last year the conservancy scored a triumph by acquiring 525,000 acres of desert land from the Corporation.