Acquired
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Nationalization certainly seems to appeal to the powerful faction comprising Putin’s former KGB colleagues and associates from his native St. Petersburg, one of whom last year became the chairman of Rosneft, the wholly state-owned oil company which
acquired
Yuganskneftegaz.
And while the app’s privacy policy has since been changed, that US firm retains the previously
acquired
data, which it could use for commercial purposes today and for who knows what else tomorrow.
But because arrest no longer meant execution but long imprisonment, dissidents
acquired
a reasonable chance to emerge from prison or labor camps.
Most of the investments are aimed at producing food or other crops for export from the countries in which the land is acquired, for the obvious reason that richer countries can pay more for the output.
And they certainly don’t want to be pressed to apologize for holding hostage over $800 billion in foreign currency reserves,
acquired
to resist yen appreciation.
It reverted from fiscal contracts to a system in which the central government
acquired
the majority of tax revenues and the revenue share of local governments was substantially reduced.
For most East Europeans, indeed, communal and national ties -- long suppressed by communism and dismissed by the West -- had
acquired
renewed vitality.
SHGT alters a patient’s genes by editing existing genes or inserting new ones, in order to correct conditions present at birth or
acquired
later in life.
Meanwhile, real-estate developers and local government financing vehicles (LGFVs), which offer banks a false sense of security and guarantee of profitability, have
acquired
a major share of financial resources.
Brazil has
acquired
an international stature worthy of its size and success, though perhaps not of its ambitions.
We humans will inevitably end up controlling our own evolution, and, because our power is emergent from nature we will make use of this
acquired
capacity sooner or later, for better or worse.
A conspicuous example is United Air Lines -- the world’s largest airline -- in which more than 50,000 employees collectively
acquired
a controlling share in 1994.
Meanwhile, open data on
acquired
infections in British hospitals has led to the publication of hospital-performance tables, a major factor in the 85% drop in reported infections.
If the US prefers not to do so, it should at least strip Pakistan of its status,
acquired
in 2004, as a Major non-NATO Ally, thereby ending its preferential access to American weapons and technologies.
But government statisticians have long been studying the national origins of immigrants, and are permitted to indicate the previous nationality of people who have
acquired
French citizenship.
He boasted that he had
acquired
the skirt illegally through a friend who had “paid” a Zimbabwean government official to smuggle it out of the country.
Moreover, they worry that the Chinese government often delays their market access long enough for domestic firms to use their newly
acquired
technology to gain market share.
The larger emerging-market countries
acquired
more representation when the G-20 succeeded the G-7 as the preeminent global economic grouping.
Given the protections afforded to
acquired
rights, the process of rooting out economic distortions and restoring Brazil’s finances to a stable equilibrium will require a lengthy process of constitutional reform.
The major terms of reference overshadowing the Sino-British negotiations which led to the 1984 handover agreement were the conditions set down in the 19th century lease through which Britain
acquired
most of the territory of the colony of Hong Kong (of which, the major portion of the land was actually on mainland China), having gained the initial imperial foothold on Hong Kong island itself through sheer force in two Opium Wars.
Long before September 11 became a day of infamy in the United States, it
acquired
similar significance in Chile, where 40 years ago, on September 11, 1973, the armed forces, led by General Augusto Pinochet, overthrew the country’s democratically elected government.
But as Imperial Russia expanded westward and southward, it always encountered opposition, and had to use force to keep newly
acquired
territories within its domain.
In particular, Russians have
acquired
some organizational and community-building skills.
The government likewise subjects officials to lifestyle checks and vets their statements of assets and liabilities to find out if what they have
acquired
is commensurate with their declared income.
More importantly, through its numerous rescues of sovereign states, the IMF has
acquired
expertise in debt restructuring, while developing a reputation for toughness and impartiality, which would be very useful in these situations.
Suddenly, the world will have acquired, without the need for subscribed capital, a global sovereign wealth fund.
Predictably, Spain is the most important European investor in the region, though several important Spanish operations have recently passed to Italian companies, among them the utility Endesa,
acquired
by Enel, which is now the biggest private energy distributor in Latin America.
But the Islamic State has not, unbeknownst to everyone but Putin,
acquired
an air force that needs to be neutralized.
For example, a 2004 study by Brad Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California and Yi-Tsung Lee and Yiu-Jane Liu at National Chengchi University
acquired
trade-by-trade data on individual day traders on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Non-PA groups like Hamas
acquired
their own weapons mostly by buying them from Israeli soldiers or on the Israeli black market.
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