However, I know each one of you has full authority to acquire territories for your state.

Nevertheless, his influence continued to grow as he acquired more territory.

Hasn't it acquired territory and resources without responsibility for people of another loyalty?

An empire must do more than acquire and maintain foreign territories.

The goal of the Ascendancy was not to acquire new territory.

It means accepting genocide as a way of acquiring territory.

The last thing the British moneyed class wish for is to acquire fresh territory.

China is also the only country in the world that claims and expects to acquire enormous extra territories.

Two years later he quit the army with a determination to explore the new territories acquired by the British as a result of the war.

The first stage in acquiring territory was to enter into treaties with local rulers.