"acquire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Gravano quickly acquired tremendous clout in the construction and trucking industries.
- "This is more about them acquiring economic clout, and perhaps refusing to pay off the local authorities, than about any religious beliefs," Ms. Hooper said.
- They have acquired considerable political clout in Congress and have used it to plead their case.
- Thanks to the inevitable concentration of the industry into a few large firms, owners and managers acquire enormous political clout.
- During his official career in BioExploration, he had failed to achieve his goal, but he had failed magnificently enough to acquire clout.
- The goal seems to be to prevent any from acquiring clout to rival the Communist Party.
- Over time, Sarney and his family acquired enormous clout over Maranhão's public life, and he is today regarded as the foremost of Brazil's oligarchs.
- Do you think the members of Hamas will desist in calling for the destruction of Israel now that they have acquired political clout?
- And black trade unions had acquired political clout.
- The Brazilian Armed Forces acquired great political clout after the Paraguayan War.
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