For the acquisition of two archdioceses in 1515 Fugger provided a loan of 48. 000 guilders to Albrecht von Brandenburg, since 1512 archbishop of Magdeburg and since 1514 also archbishop of Mainz.

Achieving acquisition success has proven to be very difficult, while various studies have shown that 50 % of acquisitions were unsuccessful.

The acquisition process is very complex, with many dimensions influencing its outcome.

Strategic management of all these resources is a very important factor for a successful acquisition.

An increase in acquisitions in the global business environment requires enterprises to evaluate the key stake holders of acquisition very carefully before implementation.

The above direct conditioning model, though very influential in the theory of fear acquisition, should not suggest the only way to acquire a phobia.

He was also very fond of hand knotted Persian carpets and advised the South Kensington Museum in the acquisition of fine Kerman carpets.

Indeed, a growing number of language acquisition researchers argue that the very idea of a strict rule-based grammar in any language flies in the face of what is known about how languages are spoken and how languages evolve over time.

According to the Weimar Republic 1928 Law on Firearms & Ammunition, firearms acquisition or carrying permits were “ only to be granted to persons of undoubted reliability, and — in the case of a firearms carry permit — only if a demonstration of need is set forth .” The Nazis replaced this law with the Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, which was very similar in structure and wording, but relaxed gun control requirements for the general population.

making the acquisition of the folded state a very fast process.

As financial sponsors increase their returns by employing a very high leverage ( i. e., a high ratio of debt to equity ), they have an incentive to employ as much debt as possible to finance an acquisition.

To the surprise of many employees and journalists, IBM adopted a very hands-off, laissez-faire attitude towards its new acquisition.

Through its acquisition of what became the Enterprise 10000 server line from Cray, Sun had done so much financial damage to IBM's server market share, that IBM was very reluctant to see this disaster repeated.

SAC had many Radar Bomb Scoring ( RBS ) sites across the country which had very similar acquisition and tracking radar, plus similar computerized plotting boards which were used to record the bomber tracks and bomb release points.

Because SPECT acquisition is very similar to planar gamma camera imaging, the same radiopharmaceuticals may be used.

Jefferson, who was very popular due to the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase and booming trade defeated Pinckney in a landslide.

The acquisition part of the system was not much better, requiring very powerful lighting of the subject.

Also, following the acquisition, SBI's total assets will inch very close to the 10 trillion mark.

Even with the acquisition of other buildings for dorms and the building of a new sanctuary for the church, the space was very limited.

Despite the acquisition, however, Shell Oil remained a very independent business.

* Section 40 prohibits the compulsory acquisition of property by the state, except in a few very restricted circumstances related to public purposes.

For every $ 15 stamp sold, the federal government retains $ 14. 70 for wetlands acquisition and conservation, so very little gets lost in the system for overhead.

The Colthrop Board Mills ( closed down in 2000 ), where paper had been produced for over 200 years, grew very quickly, particularly after its acquisition by the worldwide Reed Paper Group.

This very first acquisition and other early acquisitions significantly expanded the company ’ s manufacturing ability and product offering.

Richard M. Watt describes the Polish capture of Teschen in these words: " Amid the general euphoria in Poland – the acquisition of Teschen was a very popular development – no one paid attention to the bitter comment of the Czechoslovak general who handed the region over to the incoming Poles.

In 1989 Pinker and Alan Prince published an influential critique of a connectionist model of the acquisition of the past tense ( a textbook problem in language acquisition ), followed by a series of studies of how people use and acquire the past tense.

He is credited with introducing various influential concepts and terms in the study of second-language acquisition, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis.

As Vilar observes: " It is only because, in its acquisition of the Spanish market, the Catalan industrial bourgeoisie did not succeed either in securing the state apparatus or identifying its interests with those of the whole of Spain, in influential opinion, that Catalonia, this little " fatherland ", finally became the ' national ' focal point ", ( 1980: 551 )

The acquisition brought with it several influential industry figures, including Steve Bennett ( founder of Country Road ).

Ferguson was also the president and general manager of the Worcester IceCats and was influential in the negotiation and acquisition of the Blues ' top minor league affiliate.

In 1517, it was believed that all of the money that Tetzel was trying to raise was for the ongoing reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica, though half the money went towards helping the Archbishop of Mainz, Albert of Brandenburg, under whose authority Tetzel was operating, to pay off the debts he had incurred in securing the agreement of the Pope to his acquisition of the Archbishopric.

Twenty-six states operate a central motor pool for acquisition, allocation and/or maintenance of state-owned vehicles.

The judgment must therefore be reversed and the cause remanded to the District Court for a determination, after further hearing, of the equitable relief necessary and appropriate in the public interest to eliminate the effects of the acquisition offensive to the statute.

The Ruling would not, however, apply to an acquisition of assets for cash.

Section 381(a) applies only to a transfer by liquidation of a subsidiary owned to the extent of at least 80 per cent, a statutory merger or consolidation, an acquisition of substantially all a corporation's assets solely in exchange for voting stock, or a change of identity, form, or place of organization.

In the rare case where a corporation's only substantial asset, or its most important one, is a claim for refund, perhaps its transfer should not be permitted, whether the reorganization takes the form of a statutory merger or of the acquisition of assets for stock.

The parent of a group filing consolidated returns might be treated as the same corporation following a reorganization defined in section 368(a)(1), but as a different corporation for this purpose after a tax-free acquisition by another corporation which had not, for example, elected to file consolidated returns with its own subsidiaries.

But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

This imagery is used for everything from navigational aids, search and rescue, and target acquisition.

Namco Bandai has purchased a 34 % stake in Atari Europe on May 14, 2009, paving the way for its acquisition from Infogrames.

The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) provided a smaller and cheaper means of quick and accurate fixation for target acquisition devices.

In other armies an ' authorised observer ' ( for example, artillery observation team or other target acquisition element ) can order fire units to engage.

Survey is also essential for some target acquisition devices.

Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.

The navy's priority re-equipment plans for the 1990s included the receipt of new Inhaúma-class corvettes, the construction of Tupi-class submarines, the refurbishing of the Niterói-class frigates, the acquisition of nine new Super Lynx and up to six former United States Navy Sikorsky SH-3G / H Sea King helicopters, the construction of the conventional SNAC-1 submarine prototype, and the development of nuclear-propulsion technology.

On March 20, 2006, Borland announced its acquisition of Gauntlet Systems, a provider of technology that screens software under development for quality and security.

With the acquisition of Montagu House the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 1759.

In the area of language acquisition, for example, some ( such as Steven Pinker ) have argued that specific information containing universal grammatical rules must be contained in the genes, whereas others ( such as Jeffrey Elman and colleagues in Rethinking Innateness ) have argued that Pinker's claims are biologically unrealistic.

These capacitors are biased above the threshold for inversion when image acquisition begins, allowing the conversion of incoming photons into electron charges at the semiconductor-oxide interface ; the CCD is then used to read out these charges.

For the Aztecs, the most important tribute was the acquisition of sacrificial victims for their religious rituals.

This was an attempt to render Commodore's new acquisition ( and the source for its next generation of computers ) useless.