His grandfather, Moses Austin, had initially obtained permission from Mexico to serve as an empresario to settle Texas.

These industrial gases are much purer and drier than those initially obtained from a Kipp apparatus without further processing.

Most muskets were initially obtained while in Australia.

Subtilisin is a non-specific protease (a protein-digesting enzyme) initially obtained from Bacillus subtilis.

A court injunction was initially obtained stopping the elephant transfer, but has since been overturned.

The heat for the house was initially obtained by running a flue from the nearby palm house but it was later equipped with its own boiler.

Initially obtained from surface workings, it would later have been mined in shallow bell pits.

Locke explains how property rights are initially obtained by reference to the labour expended on the property by the acquirer.

Both publications were initially obtained by payment of a single, annual subscription.

The software was initially obtained by critics of electronic voting, who discovered it on a Diebold Internet site in January.