Acquisitive in a sentence

A crucial lesson in our brutally acquisitive society, and one that the Thule culture – which shared all it had – knew many centuries ago.

I didn’t see much in the way of slob material, but I can tell you that there were plenty of acquisitive little eyes shooting hungry, magpie-like looks at all the costly stuff lying around these small but expensive homes and gardens.

The Rural Crime Team has been recognised by the National Police Chiefs' Council as being 'the most innovative partnership to tackle serious and organised acquisitive crime.

He added: “Here’s the important point – the increase in crime is the acquisitive crime, so shoplifting, burglary, theft have all gone up, and robbery of course, and that’s linked with violence.

Other allegations, of an acquisitive nature, were made against him in 2022, which he admitted this April, even though they never ended in charges or a conviction, Mr Walsh told the court.

If completed, the acquisition will end Slack’s brief run as an independent publicly traded company — it went public in mid-2019 — and cap an acquisitive streak by Salesforce with its largest deal since it was founded 21 years ago.

That same year, regulators seized Anbang Insurance Group Co., which symbolized the recent era of mega-acquisitive Chinese companies, and imprisoned its former chairman for fraud.

Detective Constable Euan Martin said: “Police Scotland is committed to tackling acquisitive crime and ensuring that those responsible face the consequences of their actions, regardless of the passage of time.

If they would just buy more, then all those rundown storefronts and empty ones would be filled with the highest of high end retailers jockeying for a chance to meet the needs of the Bronx’s newly acquisitive citizenry.

HNA Group Co., the once-acquisitive Chinese conglomerate that’s been selling billions of dollars in assets this year amid soaring borrowing costs, said that Co-Chairman Wang Jian died after an accident in Provence, France.

In an era of increasing foreign investment in the United States, few have been as acquisitive — or disruptive — as Masayoshi Son, the billionaire Japanese founder of SoftBank.

Thus the Trump administration had, as Varsano had hoped, brought new license and new zeal to the acquisitive impulses of the jet-possession set, and he was sure he would see his own reward in short order.

Although sympathetic to his characters, he highlights their insular, snobbish, and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes.

For example, Louisiana has a legal doctrine called acquisitive prescription, which is derived from French law.

In consequence, any person who commits an acquisitive crime (i.

The document outlines a fifteen-point belief system, which, in addition to a secular outlook, opposes "acquisitive and profit-motivated society" and outlines a worldwide egalitarian society based on voluntary mutual cooperation.