"acquire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Parks Department formed the natural resources group 20 years ago to acquire and restore parkland.
- Mr. Hibbard said the $100 million proposed to acquire parkland is insufficient to meet the goal of Environment 2000, which is 140 acres of public recreation land for each 1,000 residents.
- The current Land and Water Conservation Fund, which draws some $900 million a year from offshore oil and gas royalties, was originally intended to help governments at all levels acquire and develop parkland.
- Acquiring additional parkland in Westchester should be a high priority of the county government, but linking existing properties, both public and private, is a creative alternative that deserves support.
- From 1907 until 1920, legal battles to acquire parkland continued despite the 1907 Legislature passing a bill with language favoring railroads until courts rejected the legislation.
- "I think the function of politicians should be to acquire parkland, not give it away," said Haber, who is enlisting the support of the Sierra Club.
- For him, saving open space and acquiring parkland was paramount.
- Among the significant additions are $269 million for a program to provide money for acquiring parkland and for a major reforestation effort across the country.
- Mr. Rockefeller, the citizen chairman of the National Parks Foundation, a fund-raising group chartered by Congress, made clear that the issue was not acquiring parkland - the usual plea of environmental enthusiasts.
- The Bloomberg administration has made acquiring new parkland a priority.
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