The acquisition of Lorraine ( effective in 1766 at Stanislaus ' death ) was to be the last territorial expansion of France on the continent before the French Revolution.

The first international acquisition came in 1992 when Papeteries de Golbey in Lorraine, France.

During this period, France expanded to nearly its modern territorial extent through the acquisition of Picardy, Burgundy, Anjou, Maine, Provence, Brittany, Franche-Comté, French Flanders, Navarre, Roussillon, the Duchy of Lorraine, Alsace and Corsica.

In 1551, Nomeny was detached from the Bishopric of Metz and given to him as a margraviate by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1567, in right of which he was recognized as an independent, hereditary Prince of the Empire ( the House of Lorraine would obtain a full vote in the Imperial Diet in 1736 for Nomeny in compensation for cession of the Duchy of Lorraine to France — in addition to acquisition of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany ).

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.

The former proof seems applicable to a statutory merger or consolidation, the latter to a contractual acquisition.

* Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation in the hard disk drive market ( after the acquisition of Samsung's hard drive division by the former and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies by the latter )

During the Restoration ( 1814 – 30 ), Louis XVIII and Charles X between them added 135 pieces at a cost of 720, 000 francs and created the department of Egyptian antiquities curated by Champollion, increased by more than 7, 000 works with the acquisition of antiquities in the Edmé-Antoine Durand, the Egyptian collection of Henry Salt or the second collection former by Bernardino Drovetti.

The Polish language became far more homogeneous in the second half of the 20th century, in part due to the mass migration of several million Polish citizens from the eastern to the western part of the country after the Soviet annexation of the Kresy in 1939, and the acquisition of former German territory after World War II.

Myriad smaller subunits included test, evaluation and acquisition activities serving as tenants with former Air Force Systems Command and Air Force Logistics Command entities, as well as ceremonial guard formations such as the SAC Elite Guard.

On 9 November 1990, the Sejm passed " The resolution about the acquisition of the wealth that belonged to the former PUWP ".

Shortly after the acquisition of the right to the Schultheiss office in 1344, the city came into possession of the vogt right over the Monastery by granting citizenship rights to the former vogt ( bailiff ), Burkhard Senn the Elder.

In 2005 Eidos was taken over by SCi and Livingstone was then the only former board member to be retained, taking on the role of product acquisition director.

Entering the 2002 – 03 season, the team knew it would be memorable for at least two reasons, as David Robinson announced that it would be his last in the NBA and the Spurs would begin play at their new arena, the SBC Center, named after telecommunications giant SBC, whose corporate headquarters were located in San Antonio ( SBC became AT & T after its acquisition of its former parent company ).

Another recent acquisition is the former Research Forest Tract.

Since the BellSouth acquisition, Cincinnati Bell has been the only former AT & T associated company still carrying the " Bell " name.

The deal represents the first acquisition since Dell formed its software division under former CA CEO John Swainson.

That he gained Deira through conquest is suggested by the exile of Edwin, son of the former king Ælla, and Hereric, Edwin's nephew, who were both notable members of the Deiran royal line ; the short five-year reign of Aethelric of Deira, who ruled immediately prior to Æthelfrith's acquisition of Deira, may also indicate conquest.

The others — Dayton, Ohio, becoming synonymous with peace in the Balkans ; helping the Russian defense minister blow up a Minuteman missile silo in Missouri ; watching United States and Russian troops training together in Kansas ; welcoming former Warsaw Pact troops in Louisiana ; operating a school at Garmisch, Germany, to teach former Soviet and East European military officers about democracy, budgeting, and testifying to a parliament ; dismantling the military specifications system for acquisition ; cutting the ear off a pig in Kazakhstan ; and eating rendered Manchurian toad fat in China.

* Norfolk Southern Railway ( former ), the final name of a railroad running in Virginia and North Carolina before its acquisition by the Southern Railway in 1974

Similar to the acquisition of Pride Fighting Championships, the Strikeforce purchase was significant in Zuffa acquiring more top-ranked fighters such as former Strikeforce champions Alistair Overeem, Dan Henderson, Ronaldo Souza, Nick Diaz and current champions Luke Rockhold, Gilbert Melendez, Daniel Cormier, and Nate Marquardt as well as Strikeforce's female division including notables Cristiane " Cyborg " Santos, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Julie Kedzie, Sarah Kaufman, Marloes Coenen and Gina Carano.

However, Lear was successful as a businessman, especially with his leveraged acquisition vehicle Act III Communications, founded in 1986 and led initially by Tom McGrath ( who met Lear while negotiating on behalf of Coca-Cola the acquisition of Lear's old company ) and later by Hal Gaba, a former Embassy executive.

The company emerged from bankruptcy in the mid-1990s with $ 200 million in hand and embarked on a course of acquisition and self-reinvention, eschewing its former role as an innovative designer and manufacturer of computer and related systems.

According to Robert Lutz, former President of Chrysler, the AMC acquisition was a big and risky undertaking.

* The AMC Proving Grounds – The former AMC Proving Grounds in Burlington, Wisconsin had initially been Nash's test track and subsequently became Jeep's test facilities ( after AMC's acquisition of Willys in the 1970s ).

This led to the acquisition of Atlantic Refining and Marketing ( and, in effect, that company's convenience store chain, A-Plus ), including its Philadelphia refinery which was later merged with the former Gulf Oil refinery next door that Sunoco acquired from Chevron.