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In one transaction we are able to access the middle market in scale and acquire a best in class origination, execution and asset management platform, with the portfolio, we acquire the exposure we want and with the platform, we acquire the machine to continue to grow that exposure. This is completely complementary to CPPIB's credit investment portfolio. – Mark Jenkins	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The IPO will provide the platform for the continued success of the business, as well as accelerate its growth opportunities and facilitate value creation through an increased ability to acquire, incentivise, differentiate and where sensible diversify. – Chief Executive Michael Ward	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States, it spans at least two generations of soccer officials who, as alleged, have abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks. – Attorney General Loretta Lynch	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Where ever( Chinese) enterprises go, banks must provide quality services, so for a bank, the quickest way is to acquire a stake in a local high-quality bank. – Yu Yan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Those are complicated systems that take time to acquire and then take time to put in place, you can't buy these things off the shelf and take them home the day you buy them ... One has to come before the other. – Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Defense Distributed appears caught in what appears to be a bureaucratic game of merry-go-round, the right to keep and bear arms includes the ability to acquire or create arms. The government is engaging in behavior that denies this company’s due process under the Fifth Amendment. We’re compelled to file this action because the bureaucracy is evidently playing games and it’s time for these agencies to behave. – Alan Gottlieb	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We remain steadfast in our legally binding commitment to acquire Perrigo and have taken numerous concrete steps to lay out a clear and certain path towards completion. – Mylan Chief Executive Heather Bresch	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The most important obligation of the federal government is our national security, and I think that is something that is very difficult to acquire experience or in-depth knowledge (of) when you are governor. You just don't deal with those issues, you can obviously be briefed by experts, you can take some trips abroad, but I think this election has the potential to really be geared towards national security issues. I feel very comfortable in my knowledge and my experience on those issues. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Getting the rest of the way to a final deal by June won't be easy, but it is absolutely crucial. I know well that the devil is always in the details in this kind of negotiation, the onus is on Iran and the bar must be set high. It can never be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapon. – Iran Clinton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I wanted to leave clients remembering a lifetime experience in certain ways- just as they were mesmerized from watching certain adventure expeditions on television, i realized there is an entire world of categorical experiences that people are not talking about. Is it because it is too challenging to acquire or because people are not aware that such experiences exist. – Victoria Hoffman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
How did the owners acquire title documents? Were communities consulted? Were they compensated for their land? Were women's title considered? i cannot tell from the evidence that Coke presents. – Karol Boudreaux	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Success requires acquiring experiences and learning lessons, very often, the best way, and sometimes the only way, to acquire that experience and learn those lessons is through failure: trying things one way, realizing what doesn't work and then making the appropriate changes. – Timothy Bono	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The company will acquire the assets and convert the site into a state-of-the-art storage facility, (Puma) will make Milford Haven a key site securing the supply of energy to the UK and wider region. – Puma Energy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think domestic airlines in India are inefficiently run. The only one efficiently run is IndiGo. If we have the opportunity to acquire a stake in IndiGo we shall be very pleased to do so. – Al Baker	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We acquire a taste for sugar depending on how much we have on a daily basis, if you cut out soda for a while, you may be surprised at how sweet it tastes ones you go back. – Lona Sandon	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Affirmative action is a solid step forward because those girls and women who move into the sphere of education and work and acquire additional skills challenge local patriarchy and can change attitudes. – Ravi Verma	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Disregard females, acquire currency – Henry Saunders	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A number of factors ... had me convinced that this was the right time and the right company to acquire. – William Brown	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we acquire a U.S. based fast food (firm), that would mean we will be able to serve the mainstream market, so the coverage will be wider. – Cossette Palomar	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is really fascinating for understanding mechanistically another way to acquire genes that encode factors that make it virulent. – John Mekalanos	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
GasLog Ltd has entered into an agreement with Methane Services Ltd to acquire two modern tri-fuel diesel electric LNG carriers for a cost of $460 million. – GasLog	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You need to be very mindful that you are dealing with declared assets (to tax authorities), who would be willing to acquire assets that are noncompliant. – Louay Al-Doory	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is a benefit in being part of the engineering culture in Silicon Valley... a different sort of skill set that you acquire from being in senior positions or being around such a dense population of startups. – Michael Katchen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is a benefit in being part of the engineering culture in the Valley ... a different sort of skill set that you acquire from being in senior positions or being around such a dense population of startups. – Michael Katchen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

In one transaction we are able to access the middle market in scale and acquire a best in class origination, execution and asset management platform, with the portfolio, we acquire the exposure we want and with the platform, we acquire the machine to continue to grow that exposure. This is completely complementary to CPPIB's credit investment portfolio.

– Mark Jenkins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The IPO will provide the platform for the continued success of the business, as well as accelerate its growth opportunities and facilitate value creation through an increased ability to acquire, incentivise, differentiate and where sensible diversify.

– Chief Executive Michael Ward

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States, it spans at least two generations of soccer officials who, as alleged, have abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

– Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Where ever( Chinese) enterprises go, banks must provide quality services, so for a bank, the quickest way is to acquire a stake in a local high-quality bank.

– Yu Yan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Those are complicated systems that take time to acquire and then take time to put in place, you can't buy these things off the shelf and take them home the day you buy them ... One has to come before the other.

– Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Defense Distributed appears caught in what appears to be a bureaucratic game of merry-go-round, the right to keep and bear arms includes the ability to acquire or create arms. The government is engaging in behavior that denies this company’s due process under the Fifth Amendment. We’re compelled to file this action because the bureaucracy is evidently playing games and it’s time for these agencies to behave.

– Alan Gottlieb

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We remain steadfast in our legally binding commitment to acquire Perrigo and have taken numerous concrete steps to lay out a clear and certain path towards completion.

– Mylan Chief Executive Heather Bresch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The most important obligation of the federal government is our national security, and I think that is something that is very difficult to acquire experience or in-depth knowledge (of) when you are governor. You just don't deal with those issues, you can obviously be briefed by experts, you can take some trips abroad, but I think this election has the potential to really be geared towards national security issues. I feel very comfortable in my knowledge and my experience on those issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Getting the rest of the way to a final deal by June won't be easy, but it is absolutely crucial. I know well that the devil is always in the details in this kind of negotiation, the onus is on Iran and the bar must be set high. It can never be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapon.

– Iran Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I wanted to leave clients remembering a lifetime experience in certain ways- just as they were mesmerized from watching certain adventure expeditions on television, i realized there is an entire world of categorical experiences that people are not talking about. Is it because it is too challenging to acquire or because people are not aware that such experiences exist.

– Victoria Hoffman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

How did the owners acquire title documents? Were communities consulted? Were they compensated for their land? Were women's title considered? i cannot tell from the evidence that Coke presents.

– Karol Boudreaux

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Success requires acquiring experiences and learning lessons, very often, the best way, and sometimes the only way, to acquire that experience and learn those lessons is through failure: trying things one way, realizing what doesn't work and then making the appropriate changes.

– Timothy Bono

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The company will acquire the assets and convert the site into a state-of-the-art storage facility, (Puma) will make Milford Haven a key site securing the supply of energy to the UK and wider region.

– Puma Energy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think domestic airlines in India are inefficiently run. The only one efficiently run is IndiGo. If we have the opportunity to acquire a stake in IndiGo we shall be very pleased to do so.

– Al Baker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We acquire a taste for sugar depending on how much we have on a daily basis, if you cut out soda for a while, you may be surprised at how sweet it tastes ones you go back.

– Lona Sandon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Affirmative action is a solid step forward because those girls and women who move into the sphere of education and work and acquire additional skills challenge local patriarchy and can change attitudes.

– Ravi Verma

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Disregard females, acquire currency

– Henry Saunders

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A number of factors ... had me convinced that this was the right time and the right company to acquire.

– William Brown

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we acquire a U.S. based fast food (firm), that would mean we will be able to serve the mainstream market, so the coverage will be wider.

– Cossette Palomar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is really fascinating for understanding mechanistically another way to acquire genes that encode factors that make it virulent.

– John Mekalanos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

GasLog Ltd has entered into an agreement with Methane Services Ltd to acquire two modern tri-fuel diesel electric LNG carriers for a cost of $460 million.

– GasLog

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You need to be very mindful that you are dealing with declared assets (to tax authorities), who would be willing to acquire assets that are noncompliant.

– Louay Al-Doory

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a benefit in being part of the engineering culture in Silicon Valley... a different sort of skill set that you acquire from being in senior positions or being around such a dense population of startups.

– Michael Katchen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a benefit in being part of the engineering culture in the Valley ... a different sort of skill set that you acquire from being in senior positions or being around such a dense population of startups.

– Michael Katchen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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