It's simply a fact that nearly every Cuban I've ever come to know beyond a passing acquaintance, everyone not involved with the party, will turn to you at some point and say something along the lines of, "It is a prison here".
Expect that most men that you meet will never get beyond being an acquaintance.
The working-class hero Philip Levine has been a professor of poetry for more than forty years, although to judge by his poetry you wouldn't think that he'd had any acquaintance with academia beyond a rudimentary high school education.
Anything beyond that — sitting down, renewing an acquaintance, becomes using your power and influence.
The network consists of 34 actors whose common activity is a Karate club, edges are weighted by the level of acquaintance shared by actors beyond the club.
But asked if Mr. Caliguire could expand his base of support much beyond his immediate acquaintances, the former governor tempered his admiration with realism.
He said other investors — including two N.F.L. quarterbacks, several Nascar drivers, nine heads of private equity firms, the father of one of Tagg Romney's former girlfriends, and Lee Scott, the former head of Wal-Mart — came from introductions or acquaintances beyond politics.
Beyond 150, new acquaintances just shade off into the mass -- we don't really know them.
I was friends with over 300 people, 200 of these 'friends' were not even people I would consider beyond a close acquaintances.
Her novel Beyond Black, about a medium who is tormented by her acquaintances, both the living and the dead, was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
