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For all samples, following consent obtainment, about 2–5 ml of venous blood was obtained and then diluted with one volume of PBS.

From Nature • Jan. 24, 2017

Make the ammunition outrageously expensive and people will be more inclined to take measures to prevent its theft, if that is what you mean by illegal obtainment.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2016

Maintenance of an adequate army and navy until an agreement for a sweeping reduction of military and naval programs is obtained; obtainment of such an agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Difference in religious beliefs and confessions does not constitute in Roumania an obstacle to the obtainment of civil and political rights, nor to the exercise of these rights.

From Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Joseph, Samuel

The barren nature of the country rendered fuel difficult of obtainment, and the consequence was that numbers of the troops were carried off by dysentery.

From Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by Taylor, William