Sentences with word «acquisitive»

In a cross demand, the respondent claimed ownership of half of the appellants» parking space by way of acquisitive prescription under the C.C.Q.

In this coldly gripping X-ray of the new Russia, director Andrey Zvyagintsev uses their search to reveal a desperate, clawing, hungry yet acquisitive society that is fast losing its empathy.

The objective of all learning should be the transformation of personality from one centered in acquisitive love to one grounded in self - forgetful love of righteousness.

China's banking regulator has ordered a group of commercial banks to assess their exposure to offshore purchases by a handful of acquisitive Chinese corporate groups, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on June 22.

In Alain Ostiguy et autre c. Hélène Allie, et al., the majority of the Supreme Court found that the respondent had satisfied the demands for acquisitive prescription under the Civil Code of Quebec (C.C.Q.).

(Bloomberg)-- Fosun Group, one of China's most acquisitive conglomerates, is preparing to sell as much as 40 billion yuan ($ 6 billion) in assets as it focuses on raising its credit rating to above junk...

Pandora has not been as acquisitive as rival Spotify, having generally purchased businesses that are of strategic importance at the time, instead of smaller teams with interesting technology.

Within outbound transactions, Qatar was the most acquisitive nation in 2014 and continues to be so in the first half of this year.

Furthermore, the democracy that grows out of family experience is a democracy of worth, since it stems from loyalty to the good of the person and not from acquisitive impulses.

Dover is a highly acquisitive company, having spent around $ 2.9 billion on 17 acquisitions in just the past three years.

Pressure abroad and at home is curbing deals, and life is getting tough for acquisitive giants like Anbang.

IAC has been very acquisitive in Personals — invested in online dating business in China, completed tender offer for Meetic (largest acquisition done in last 5 - 6 years), bought OkCupid.

You make it dirty and dangerous, and you force people into acquisitive crime to support an expensive habit.»

Even in his twilight years, Roy's acquisitive nature prevailed.

The twist I offer you at the end of my piece is this: thus, watch highly acquisitive firms.

Combined with the December purchase of West - Coast based Fred Sands, REALTORS, by NRT Inc., the mergers stage a dramatic ending to an active acquisitive year.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

(I'm in a strangely acquisitive mood, but my bank account is not.)

Tony Nugent's work - Lamentation of the Osprey - is a finalist in the 2012 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, a Grafton Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition, which makes its way to the Redcliffe City Art Gallery from 24 January - 2 March 2013

The 2013 Postcard Show is a fundraiser for the 2014 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award.

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant - Garde Reconstructing and expanding a pathbreaking 1970 New York exhibition, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's sampling of the collections of Gertrude Stein and family brought to town a wealth of great modern artworks and even daringly traced the decline of Stein's acquisitive eye.

Thomsons (TRI)'s benchmarks for «legal»: 5 % largely acquisitive growth (but still +1 % organic); research and public sector revenues are declining by 1 % typically.

Update: During a conference call with reporters, Square executives were asked whether the company is becoming more acquisitive.

New German regulations aim to prevent takeovers of core domestic industries by an increasingly acquisitive China.

And then we become acquisitive if we can't do those two things or we can't do them quickly enough.

If psychological utility is the key, «scarcity» has value only as a compulsive acquisitive character — wealth addiction.

To put it in perspective, Oracle was a $ 37 billion company in 2017 (according to Statista) Microsoft was a whopping $ 90 billion company last year, so it's not completely outrageous, but it would probably require that the company continue to be aggressively acquisitive as it was in 2016 and to maintain its steady record of growth for the next 17 years.

There are things that feed the appetites and stimulate acquisitive activity, and these differ profoundly in kind from the things that evoke a self - giving response.

US: Acquisitive Patrón to move into vodka, gin The Patrón Spirits Company, best known for its namesake premium Tequila, looks set to move into the wider white spirits category with the acquisition of

Her work includes guiding companies through acquisitive and divisive reorganizations, drafting shareholders agreements, providing tax - based advice for business structures, and securities law compliance.

The recently founded (2004) and very actively acquisitive Verbund Collection integrates contemporary American and European art with works created since 1970.

While China was leading as most acquisitive nation throughout 2013 and 2014, the country has been less active in 2015 so far.

And while bringing multiple companies together is no easy task, we've continued to increase revenue, invest in our technology and create a thriving, sustainable organisation from our robust organic and acquisitive strategy.

The price, Tillman wrote, most likely reflects MuleSoft's desirability to other acquisitive companies.

In 2014, she was awarded the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Primavera Veolia Acquisitive Prize.

From client demands to acquisitive rivals and alternative providers, Macfarlanes» Charles Martin and Wachtell's Adam Emmerich discuss the key challenges for independent law firms

Large and acquisitive consumer products firms will now be able to identify the next food trends before new competitors recognize the opportunities and jump into the market and eventually force the major players to buy their startups for substantial sums.

«Microsoft and Amazon are also, incidentally, both active local startup investors — and what's more, are fairly acquisitive,» she notes.

I'm not a very acquisitive woman.

Still, many historically acquisitive tech companies have not made any big deals recently and could have plans in the works.

Gannett, newly acquisitive since its split from its formerly combined newspaper / broadcast company, could take a look.