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They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.
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They acquired another electronics factory, a specialized ceramics company, an organization that built -- very experimentally -- high-speed research calculators.
They acquired premises at Henniker Place in Kensington and produced their first car in March 1915.
They may be developed, acquired, stockpiled or deployed by nation states or by non-national groups.
They acquired songs by memorizing them.
They traded Floyd Bannister to Seattle for shortstop Craig Reynolds and acquired catcher Alan Ashby from Toronto for pitcher Mark Lemongello.
They later acquired the rights to this software.
They also acquired Cinematronics to create a game called Crucible.
They then purchased or merged with Miehle-Goss-Dexter, the largest supplier of printing presses, and in 1973 acquired Collins Radio, a major avionics supplier.
They acquired the dukedom and Duchy of Milan from the previously ruling Visconti family in the mid-15th century, and lost it to the Spanish Habsburgs about a century later.
They had a young star in the likes of Jack Clark, along with veteran first baseman Willie McCovey, second baseman Bill Madlock ( whom the Giants had acquired from the Chicago Cubs ,) shortstops Johnnie LeMaster and Roger Metzger, and third baseman Darrell Evans.
They were initially sent to Alaska and Canada as sled dogs but rapidly acquired the status of family pets and show dogs.
They came from four cities to the north of Ireland – Falias, Gorias, Murias and Finias – where they acquired their occult skills and attributes.
They acquired Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily shortly afterwards.
They later acquired houses in Lenox, Massachusetts and in Washington, District of Columbia.
They had recently acquired the ownership of Brunswick Records along with four music publishers for US $ 28 million.
They acquired Alexei Yashin from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for forward Bill Muckalt, defenseman Zdeno Chara and the Isles ' second overall pick in the entry draft, which the Senators used to select Jason Spezza.
They acquired superstar center Shaquille O ' Neal on July 14, 2004 in a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler and Brian Grant.
They acquired center Vlade Divac from the Los Angeles Lakers for the rights to Kobe Bryant, who the Hornets picked 13th in the draft.
They also drafted Austin Rivers from Duke University, with the 10th pick ( acquired from the Clippers as part of the Chris Paul trade ).
They also had sharpshooter Steve Kerr, whom they acquired via free agency before the 1993 – 94 season, Myers, and centers Luc Longley ( acquired via trade in 1994 from the Minnesota Timberwolves ) and Bill Wennington.
They battled injuries and had many roster changes, including a three team trade at the trade deadline in which the team acquired F Joe Smith, G-F Wally Szczerbiak, F-C Ben Wallace, and G Delonte West.
They also acquired Rick Mahorn in a trade with the Washington Bullets.
They acquired Adrian Dantley in exchange for Knight, but Dantley ( who was averaging nearly 27 points per game at the time ) was traded in December, while the Pacers ' second-leading scorer, John Williamson, was dealt in January.
They and large
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They were camped beside a large column-shaped boulder: a man, his lubra, and two children.
They found a large welcoming group -- El Paso policemen, Border Patrol, sheriff's deputies, and FBI men, who surged around the plane with rifles and submachine guns.
They consisted of a new arrangement of `` Nutcracker '' excerpts danced stunningly by Irina Kolpakova and Mr. Sokolev, with a large ensemble ; ;
They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.
They were the top land predators, sometimes reaching several meters in length, preying on the large insects of the period and many types of fish in the water.
They usually have long hind limbs that fold underneath them, shorter forelimbs, webbed toes with no claws, no tails, large eyes and glandular moist skin.
They settled on a large plantation he named China Grove in Brazoria County, Texas.
They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.
They produced large numbers of posters and prints published by Mabileau et Cie, covering racing events involving motorcars, aircraft, dirigibles and speedboats.
They usually cannot filter out meaningful or appropriate anagrams from large numbers of nonsensical word combinations.
They are fast-growing deciduous trees growing to 25 – 45 m tall, with spreading branches and large ( 40 – 100 cm ) pinnate leaves with 15-41 long pointed leaflets, the terminal leaflet normally present, and the basal pairs of leaflets often lobed at their bases.
They are highly mobile, usually based on caterpillar track carrying either a large howitzer or other field gun or alternatively a mortar or some form of rocket or missile launcher.
They also punished those who had too large a share of the ager publicus, or kept too many cattle on the state pastures.
They found the baptistry of the 6th century cathedral and large amounts of pottery dated to the 6th and 7th centuries AD ; in other words, the early Christian town.
They vary in size from tiny acorn sized to large amphorae like vessels but all have elevated levels of zinc on the interior and are lidded.
They are not effective for killing large beetles and similar specimens, but insects that have been killed in a cyanide killing jar can be transferred to a laurel jar to await mounting.
They still, however, can cause large floods.
They sometimes employ a large parabolic array of mirrors ( some facilities are several stories high ) to focus light to a high intensity.
They showed that a powerful man was buried in a large barrow, c 575, on a bear skin with two dogs and rich grave offerings.
They overlap in range with 3 other crane species but interactions with these species and other " large wader " type birds are not known.
They were generally printed on one side of a medium to large sheet of poor quality paper.
They were lighter and could outmaneuver the quinqueremes, where one objective was to ram the enemy ship and at the same time attack the above-deck crew with a shower of arrows and catapult-launched stones, which were large enough to decapitate a man.
They were also among the first in South East Asia to adopt religious ideas and political institutions from India and to establish centralized kingdoms surrounding large territories.
They are very important in computational chemistry for treating large molecules where the full Hartree – Fock method without the approximations is too expensive.
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