In the old days, consumers were much less familiar with who owned what and so on.
Becoming your own boss is always risky prepare yourself by getting familiar with negative feedback, owning your work and understanding what's at stake.
Out there in the real world, bolstering the economy with our sensible haircuts and sweet talk, we have become uncomfortably familiar with our own capabilities.
We humans are familiar with our own species and tend to see our own adaptations and abilities (big brain, complex culture, unusual ability to manipulate our surroundings) as unparalleled innovations.
As anyone familiar with my own work would readily infer, I have virtually boundless admiration for Wayne Proudfoot's Religious Experience.
The much higher proportion (72%) of non-physicians using guidelines could be partly explained by the fact that the manual physiotherapists have developed their own guidelines [36] and that sub-specialists may be more familiar with their own adapted guidelines than with general guidelines on the same topic [26].
In most of the cases mentioned above, familiarity also involves self-similarity (i.e., we are familiar with our own accent, capital, president, etc).. Thus, it seems that self-similarity is a factor related with high-efficiency communication.
Mr. Reichenbach did not seem familiar with his own witnesses.
Become familiar with your own distress signals and take note when occasional signs become more frequent.
He equates Jack's struggle against the confines of the familiar with his own discomfort as a rock musician.
On the other hand, investing close to home — or, better yet, in the company you are most familiar with, your own — "generates an automatic feeling of comfort".
