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Today the term obtains, to use the archaic verb, in the Microsoft case, as a federal judge ruled that the company illegally bundled its Web browser with its Windows operating system.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Today the term obtains, to use the archaic verb, in the Microsoft case, as a federal judge ruled that the company illegally bundled its Web browser with its Windows operating system.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

"Toyota engineers are investigating measures to further enhance safety performance so Camry again obtains outstanding assessment results under the new rating system," the company said.

New Crash Tests Curb High Scores Josh Mitchell 2010

I think that in any attempt to measure beauty or intelligence, which in both cases neither has a standard or scale to be measured precisely or accurately, the “label” that a person obtains is purely subjective and completely relative.

Freeze - Statistics Police!, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In a state of nature the love which obtains is merely the passion for perpetuation devoid of all imagination.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

When Saddam Hussein obtains nuclear capabilities, the constraints he feels will diminish dramatically, and the risk to America†™ s homeland, as well as to America†™ s allies, will increase even more dramatically.

Think Progress » Can Bush Be Trusted Again? 2005

When Saddam Hussein obtains nuclear capabilities, the constraints he feels will diminish dramatically, and the risk to America†™ s homeland, as well as to America†™ s allies, will increase even more dramatically.

Think Progress » Alito’s Personal Crusade To Overturn Roe 2005

The reason why the recoil velocity an atom obtains from a single photon sets a limit to both Doppler cooling and Sisyphus cooling is that even the slowest atoms are continually being forced to absorb and emit photons.

Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics 1997

The name obtains either because its water power was reserved for the "Landsman" or landlord, or because one Caspar Landsman, whose name appears in the early records may have lived along its banks.

The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Charles Gilbert Hine

If by accident that title obtains, I am still on the safe side. "

Susy, a story of the Plains Bret Harte 1869