He formed an acquaintance with John Dryden, who saw the merit of his work and helped to advance his career.
Washington accepted, writing to Braddock's principal aide, Captain Robert Orme, "I wish for nothing more earnestly, than to attain a small degree of knowledge in the Military Art", and that the position would provide him "a good opportunity... of forming an acquaintance which may be serviceable hereafter, if I can find it worth while pushing my Fortune in the Military way".
In one of his most famous aphorisms he asks: "When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?" And he tells how animals themselves form "a certain acquaintance with one another" and greet each other "with joy and demonstrations of goodwill".
During her trial she attempted unsuccessfully to evoke sympathy by blaming Strong, the father of her child, for leading her astray: "I formed an intimate acquaintance with one who should have protected me and was led away by evil associates and bad companions".
It was already to some degree familiar to them from the work of the western Greeks in Italy and Sicily, and the Romans formed a closer acquaintance with it in the court of Alexandria and from the profits of their diplomacy and warfare.
They form a network of acquaintances, which he defines as people who share a working trust even though they are not good friends.
We have seen that, for Russell, like Strawson, demonstrative identification plays a crucial role, in the form of acquaintance.
They may attempt in this way to accommodate the intuition that we are conscious of or aware of a great deal more than we attend to or notice, while insisting that this attention or noticing is a nonjudgmental awareness that secures its object a form of acquaintance in our sense.
Respect for an acquaintance even one year older than oneself requires the use of a polite form of speech.
Violations of the law of Demeter typically take the form of navigation code in which an indirect client accesses an indirect provider by accessing either an instance variable or an acquaintance of an intermediate provider.
