Acquiring Milligan Hall from his wife ’ s family gave him a beautiful seat on the Bohemia River that became his favorite home.

Acquiring a large farmhouse in Middletown, near Newport in the late 1720s, Berkeley dubbed it " Whitehall " and improved it with a Palladian doorcase derived from William Kent's Designs of Inigo Jones ( 1727 ), which he may have brought with him from London ; Palladio's work was included in the library of a thousand volumes he amassed for the purpose and sent to Yale College.

Acquiring the remainder of the PSFS branches from Meritor in 1992, Mellon continued to expand in the 1990s including the construction of combination Mellon PSFS and Acme Markets branches, the first of which opened in 1994.

*" Black Cat ", a song by Gentle Giant from Acquiring the Taste

Acquiring Overseas citizenship of India prevents British nationals from registering as full British citizens under Section 4B of the British Nationality Act of 1981 ( which requires that nationals have no other citizenship in order to register.

Acquiring land through donations, transfers from Multnomah County, and delinquent tax foreclosures, the city eventually acted on a proposal by the City Club of Portland and combined parcels totaling about to create the reserve.

Acquiring the land to relocate the highway from the bankrupt Penn Central would have interfered with private development, which was seen at a time when the City was also near bankruptcy, as preferable to public financing ( See History of New York City ( 1946-1977 )).

* Acquiring restaurants from Whitbread in July 2008

Acquiring bibliographic data from contacts around the world, Tuck expanded his card index and self-published it as a book titled A Handbook of Science Fiction and Fantasy in January 1954.

Acquiring African colonies would show rivals that a nation was powerful and significant.

Acquiring such feudal rights was regarded as essential to establish a family in the status and dignity of the late medieval gentry ; but for a long period freehold manorial estates had been very rare in the market ; and families of all kinds seized on the opportunity now offered to entrench their position in the social scale.

Acquiring a house in Queensgate Place, Knightsbridge, Tubby opened the first of Toc H ’ s hostels which was to be home for men coming to London for work and having nowhere to stay.

Acquiring the eyes of Metroplex and the Transforming Cog of Trypticon, Starscream's body was restored so that he could comprise the final connection between Unicron's head and Cybertron, allowing the planet to become the chaos-bringer's new body.

Gentle Giant was followed in 1971 by Acquiring the Taste.

Far more experimental and dissonant than its predecessor, Acquiring the Taste was shaped primarily by Kerry Minnear's broad classical and contemporary classical music training and also showed the band diversifying in their already impressive instrumentation ( although many years later Derek Shulman would admit " we recorded ( Acquiring The Taste ) without any idea of what it would be like before we got into the studio.

") The band's sense of challenge was made evident in the liner notes to Acquiring the Taste, which contained a particularly lofty statement of intent even by progressive rock standards.

In 2004, Ray Shulman commented '( Octopus ) was probably our best album, with the exception, perhaps of Acquiring the Taste.

In July 2004, the first eponymous album was re-released by Repertoire ; in December, 2005, they released Acquiring the Taste ; in December, 2006, Octopus in a mini-sleeve with the original design of Roger Dean was released, and in December, 2007, German label Repertoire released Three Friends in a mini-sleeve with the original British release design.

In 2004, Ray Shulman commented "( Octopus ) was probably our best album, with the exception, perhaps of Acquiring the Taste.

Acquiring the Taste was the second album of English progressive rock band Gentle Giant, released in 1971.

Acquiring shooting skills was connected with survival, and acquiring these skills was a " rite of passage " for boys entering manhood.

Acquiring an extensive vocabulary is one of the largest challenges in learning a second language.

Acquiring and analyzing the specific data for an individual building or facility is one of the most expensive and daunting aspects of seismic risk estimation.

Acquiring and integrating these six companies allowed Republic to begin life with an experienced production staff, a company of veteran B-film supporting players and at least one very promising star, a complete distribution system and a functioning and modern studio.

Acquiring one such hat will change the player's character into the corresponding character.

Acquiring enough XP allows a PC to advance a level, which grants the character improved class features, abilities and skills.

Acquiring the territory would double the size of the United States at a sum of less than 3 cents per acre.

Acquiring new skills gave many workers a sense of self-respect and confidence, heightening expectations and desires.

Acquiring the patent for the UNL is a completely novel achievement within the United Nations.

Acquiring a wife: 5 chapters on forms of marriage, relaxing the girl, obtaining the girl, managing alone, union by marriage.

Acquiring social variation in speech.

Acquiring detailed 3D information, 3D fingerprint scanners take a digital approach to the analog process of pressing or rolling the finger.

Acquiring Maybelline gave L ' Oreal access to mass markets in cosmetics.

" Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species ", Perseus Books Group.

Acquiring then Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and Engineering Research Associates along with Remington Rand, the company developed the successful UNIVAC computer series and signed a valuable cross-licensing deal with IBM.

Acquiring the technology sooner, humanity will be diverted to focus more on the science of nucleonics and therefore develop interstellar space travel instead of time travel technology, and leading to a Galactic Empire instead of Eternity.

Acquiring such certificates is often very costly ; the student typically must not only pay for the preparation of the certificate itself and for participating in the ceremony during which it is bestowed, but is also expected to thank the teacher by presenting him or her with a gift of money.

* De memoria artificiali adquirenda ( On Acquiring a Trained Memory ), ed.

Acquiring a second language can be a lifelong learning process for many.

Acquiring market needs by listening to the Voice of Customer ( VOC ), sorting the needs, and numerically prioritizing them ( using techniques such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process ) are the early tasks in QFD.

: Acquiring digital media through an analog paradigm.

Acquiring the skills and knowledge to become career self-reliant will enable employees to survive and even thrive in times of great change.

* Acquiring higher capacity, metro-like trains.

Acquiring an energy-draining weapon, the villains plan to threaten the Earth once again but are defeated by the Defenders and the Avenger Yellowjacket.