James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation, claiming to have found poetry written by Ossian, he published translations that acquired international popularity, being proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical epics.

As chairman of the international advisory board of Cerberus Capital Management, he recruited former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would have been installed as chairman if Cerberus had successfully acquired Air Canada.

As a consequence Paramount fell from No. 1 in the international markets to the lowest ranked major studio in 2006 but recovered in 2007 if the DreamWorks films, acquired by Paramount but still distributed internationally by Universal, are included in Paramount's market share.

Paramount, through several transactions, acquired underlying TV and digital distribution rights to many films controlled by other companies for domestic theatrical and DVD distribution and / or other international rights.

International portability of social security rights allows international migrants, who have contributed to a social security scheme for some time in a particular country, to maintain acquired benefits or benefits in the process of being acquired when moving to another country.

For nearly thirty years, DMR Consulting grew to become an international consulting firm, changing its name to Fujitsu Consulting in 2002 after being acquired by Fujitsu Ltd.

After the Second World War karate, like other martial arts, had acquired a sudden international popularity as a result of the interest taken in them by the American forces occupying Japan.

Many actors and filmmakers started their careers in Australian films, a large number of whom have acquired international reputations, and a number of whom have found greater financial benefits in careers in larger film producing centers, such as Hollywood.

Throughout the 1940s, competitors were acquired, more advanced planes were purchased and international routes were opened.

The U. S. branch of Hilton hotels was reunited with the international properties after more than 40 years in February 2006, when United States-based Hilton Hotels Corporation purchased the hotels division of United Kingdom-based Hilton Group plc, which had acquired Hilton's International operations in 1987 ( the companies had been separated originally in 1964 ).

In 1995, Imetal Group of Paris, France acquired the Georgia Marble Company, allowing this international company to strengthen its U. S. presence in the white pigments industry.

Phelps-Dodge was acquired by international mining firm Freeport-McMoRan in March 2007, and operations at the Chino and Tyrone operations are continuing under the Freeport name.

Hearst Magazines acquired Hachette Filipacchi Media U. S .' s magazines along with most of Hachette Filipacchi's international magazines in May 2011.

Murray ( the historian of the later Oxford English Dictionary ) says Webster's unabridged edition of 1864 " acquired an international fame.

New Line Cinema acquired the film for international distribution and commissioned a new music score and English dub ( with participation from Jackie Chan ).

He published extensively ( 17 papers in 1930 alone, according to Lindley ) and acquired an international reputation in the small world of probability mathematicians.

Though he turned first to biblical research, his chief achievements were in the field of Assyriology, in which he was a pioneer in Germany and acquired an international reputation.

Once a predominantly agricultural country, Yugoslavia was transformed into a mid-range industrial country, and acquired an international political reputation by supporting the decolonization process and by assuming a leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement.

Most major powers attended, and drafted an international code governing the way that European countries should behave as they acquired African territory.

There are areas in many big cities around the world which have acquired an international reputation as red-light districts.

The move onto the international scene only happened when Interbrew acquired the Canadian beer brand Labatt.

A considerable number of works also arrived from France at this time or were acquired on the international market, including paintings by Watteau, Coypel and Rigaud.

How, for example, could a Voltaire understand the strange predicament in which a Rousseau would find himself when, soon after the furor of his first Discourse, he acquired still another title to fame??

Beginning in 1916, Bill Wrigley of chewing-gum fame acquired an increasing quantity of stock in the Cubs.

" Diogenes says: " the book acquired such fame that it produced partisans of his philosophy who were called Heracliteans.

Honorius III acquired some fame as an author.

In early life, he joined the Dominican Order, in which he acquired great fame as a preacher.

The power of Pisa as a mighty maritime nation began to grow and reached its apex in the 11th century when it acquired traditional fame as one of the four main historical Maritime Republics of Italy ().

Accordingly he was buried in the Vatican with every mark of respect, and his tomb soon acquired an extraordinary fame for miraculous cures.

Wilson was annoyed that Princeton was not living up to its potential, complaining " There's a little college down in Kentucky which in 60 years has graduated more men who have acquired prominence and fame than has Princeton in her 150 years.

He acquired his fame as much from his blameless and ascetic life as from the success of his teaching.

Music writers have also applied the term, wrongly in the context of this article, to bands or vocal groups that sold huge numbers of albums, headlined massive concerts or have a high celebrity or media status, regardless of the previous ( or even subsequently acquired ) fame of their individual members, such as the band Led Zeppelin, wherein only Jimmy Page was well known at the time the group formed.

It has been inferred from the elegance and quiet charm of his lyrics that he only gradually acquired fame towards the end of his life.

It was considered a virtue whereby the more gēras a man acquired, the more kleos ( fame ) and arete ( excellence and courage ) he was considered to have.

He reveled in his newly acquired power and fame:

Laramie's fame as the western terminal of the Union Pacific Railroad, acquired when the 268 mile section from North Platte, Nebraska was opened in May ended in early August 1868 when a 93 mile section of track was opened to Benton, six miles east of present day Sinclair, Wyoming.

During the rest of the decade Pryce would play to his new acquired fame as a villain, portraying an assassin in Ronin, a corrupt Cardinal in the controversial Stigmata and, for Comic Relief, the Master in the Doctor Who special, Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.

* IX ( Franco-Saxon ) Corps: 17, 000 men, 38 guns, under 46-year-old Maréchal d ' Empire Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a commander who had acquired some fame during the Wars of the Revolution, but who often had strained relations with Napoleon ;

* V Corps: 7, 000 men, under 43-year-old Général de division Jacques MacDonald, who had acquired considerable fame as a general of the Revolution but who had subsequently fallen out with Napoleon and was only just coming back into grace ;

The mountains contained many wild beasts, and acquired fame in Greek mythology as the scene of the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.

They acquired fame in Viña del Mar, by playing at diverse parties and shows.

The role of other Soviet agents at the time is uncertain, but some of them acquired greater fame later.

The main and striking feature of this wonderful park, Werribee Gorge, in which the Werribee River meanders through, is certainly acquired world-wide fame throughout the last century for its geological value.

The fame which this publication acquired him led to his being engaged by Schütz and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland to prepare an Allgemeines Repertorium der Literatur, published in 8 volumes ( Jena and Weimar, 1793 – 1809 ), which condensed the literary productions of 15 years ( 1785 – 1800 ), and included an account not merely of the books published during that period, but also of articles in periodicals and magazines, and even of the criticisms to which each book had been subjected.

The Highland MP and antiquarian, Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, comments on late eighteenth century evictions in the area of Kingussie, in his second series of " Antiquarian Notes " ( Inverness 1897, pp 369 et seq, public domain ) as follows: " Mr James MacPherson of Ossianic fame, who acquired Phoiness, Etterish, and Invernahaven, began this wretched business and did it so thoroughly that not much remained for his successors ....... Every place James MacPherson acquired was cleared, and he also had a craze for changing and obliterating the old names ......