Emphasis is on retaining existing customers rather than acquiring new ones.

Instead, analysts said, the ministry would be much more likely to fall back on the usual methods of forcing healthy banks to acquire ailing ones.

In the past, Hearst has been more likely to start its own magazines than acquire existing ones.

And the Bush administration argues there is not enough money to maintain existing national parks, much less acquire new ones.

Snakes periodically moult their scaly skins and acquire new ones.

As a series progresses, characters usually acquire newer abilities and upgrade older ones.

Most of the for-profits are also taking market share away from struggling nonprofit hospitals or deciding to acquire ones that they can turn around.

They will have to change old habits and acquire new ones.

It's often easier and more effective to sell more to existing customers than it is to acquire new ones.

The Brazilian air force has decided to acquire some better planes and form the best older ones into a counterinsurgency group.