Acquired
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Most recently, however, under the Islamic State, hijra has
acquired
a connotation that alienates it from its prior meanings.
Neither technology nor good institutions can be
acquired
without significant domestic adaptations.
Less visibly, it has
acquired
many times the current volume in so-called “repo operations,” through which the ECB provides euros to struggling banks in a “temporary and reversible” exchange for the government bonds on their balance sheets.
Since 1970, three states that never signed the treaty have
acquired
nuclear weapons (India, Israel, and Pakistan).
In trade and immigration, for example, Bannon’s
acquired
philosophy aligned with Trump’s political opportunism (Trump’s more liberal, often Democrat-backing former self is another story).
Moreover – and this has proved to be the hardest part of all – we have had to deal with the pernicious legacy that the Communist period left behind in our souls and to confront all the bad things which had lain dormant in us, and which our newly
acquired
freedom brought to the surface of our lives.
Outside China, the prevalent view among business leaders is that President Xi Jinping’s new administration has consolidated its power and
acquired
enough authority to push through far-reaching economic reforms.
Repsol
acquired
complete control of YPF in 1999; in February 2008, it transferred part of its shares to the Petersen Group, which today holds 25%.
Those committed to addressing climate change – from international organizations to local communities to individual citizens – must urgently build on the momentum
acquired
over the last year, by maintaining strong pressure on governments and companies to pursue the policies and investments needed to complete the break from fossil fuels.
European and other international banks had
acquired
a lot of dollar-denominated assets which they habitually funded in the interbank market; as the market dried up, they were forced to buy dollars.
In the Putin regime, economic power has been concentrated in the hands of two groups: those who
acquired
property and those who take a slice of cash flows.
In October 2007, a consortium formed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis, and Banco Santander
acquired
ABN AMRO – the world’s biggest bank takeover to date.
The Oxfam report provides several examples of producers who have
acquired
land without the consent of the people who live on it, turning farmers into landless laborers.
In particular, Oxfam wants these global companies to avoid buying from suppliers that have
acquired
land from small-scale food producers without these producers’ free, prior, and informed consent.
Where land has already been
acquired
without such consent, and the acquisition is in dispute, Oxfam wants the corporations to insist on fair dispute-resolution procedures.
So far, China’s biggest European investment has been in the Belgian financial company, Fortis N.V., where Ping An Insurance recently
acquired
a 4.2% stake, making it the largest shareholder in the company.
By submitting to a common regime of speaking, writing, reading, observing, and calculating, the “upright ape”
acquired
the capacity to reason in public.
Otherwise, they could face a fate similar to Nokia, which was disintermediated by one tech company (Apple) and
acquired
by another (Microsoft).
Neuroscientists have identified three components of altruism that anyone can develop as
acquired
skills: empathy (understanding and sharing the feelings of another), loving kindness (the wish to spread happiness), and compassion (a desire to relieve the suffering of another).
The risk stemming from local-government debt is exacerbated further by massive amounts of non-explicit debt
acquired
through arrears, credits, and guarantees.
Thanks to its reconciliation with Germany, Poland
acquired
a leading role in the Euro-Atlantic community, turning what had been the Franco-German axis into a “Weimar triangle.”
The new state finally
acquired
a degree of strategic depth.
Palestinians
acquired
an identity and international prominence that had largely eluded them when most were living under Egyptian or Jordanian rule.
The Orthodox Church has
acquired
enormous political clout in recent years, and few politicians risk offending it.
For their part, Ukrainian rebel leaders, loath to lose their newly
acquired
fiefdoms, are lobbying fervently against any rapprochement between the Russian and Ukrainian governments.
When Chase Manhattan Bank bought J.P. Morgan in 2000, its managers assumed that they had also
acquired
the right to rename the organization.
So they imagine the property rights
acquired
through cronyism, nepotism, and backroom dealing as somehow emerging from a Lockean realm of freedom.
But in the world forged by the terrorist attacks on America last September, the identity, and the choices and alliances that Turkey made in its historical quest to become modern, have
acquired
greater significance than ever before.
But none of these incidents has
acquired
the toxicity of the assaults on those deemed insufficiently respectful of the holy cow.
I believe some of the inequities of the past can be addressed without any direct attack on "property rights," no matter how dubiously
acquired.
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