Date rape, also called acquaintance rape, a term used largely in industrialized countries to describe the forcing or coercing of a victim into unwanted sexual activity by a friend, romantic suitor, or peer through violence, verbal pressure, misuse of authority, use of incapacitating substances, or threat of violence.
For it seems as though when the analysis of intimacy is relatively weak, the aim is to elucidate what might be called "acquaintance friendships"; as the analysis of intimacy gets stronger, the aim seems to tend towards closer friendships and even to a kind of ideal of maximally close friendship.
When that hiring manager starts looking, what's the first thing she's likely to do? She'll call acquaintances from her tribe someone she did a postdoc with perhaps or she'll ask the HR department to make an announcement on a small website that deals with her area of interest.
According to the Acquaintance Hypothesis proposed by Conee (1994), Mary's new knowledge after release is what he calls "acquaintance knowledge" which is neither propositional knowledge nor identical to a bundle of abilities.
It has been doubted that 'directness' in Loar's sense provides an account for what one might call acquaintance: for the way in which the phenomenal character is present to the mind when a thinker employs phenomenal concepts (see Levine 2007).
Google starts you off with empty circles called Friends, Acquaintances, Family and Following (people you don't know, but want to follow, as you would on Twitter).
Seized with an 11th-hour panic that not enough people would attend, I called intriguing acquaintances several days later (yes, you were the genetic boosters).
If you feel strongly about your views but cannot discuss these topics with your acquaintances (I hesitate to call such acquaintances friends) without their lapsing into impolite, boorish behavior, then I suggest you stick to safe topics around them and join a self-identified political group that can be welcoming, accepting and affirming of the full range of your developing thoughts and views.
Finally, Ms. Dopp called an acquaintance whose child had Down syndrome.
Mr. Cain, speaking on Monday afternoon to Wolf Blitzer on CNN, acknowledged knowing Ms. White, whom he called an acquaintance, but denied having a sexual relationship with her.
