The phrase "influential acquaintances" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people you know who have a significant impact or power in a particular context or field.
Example: "Networking with influential acquaintances can open doors to new opportunities in your career."
Alternatives: "powerful contacts" or "impactful connections."
She recruited talented apprentices; leaned on influential acquaintances, including Rockefellers, for support; developed marketing strategies; and got Jugtown pottery into upscale Northern stores before selling the establishment in 1980.
Not that Nan's American friend, the poet Dick Harrison, is any more of an inspiration, scrambling up the rickety ladder of grants and workshops and prizes and influential acquaintances that enable ascent in a capitalist versifier's thoroughly academic career.
Neville has a knack of acquiring influential acquaintances, and is also close to Dale Vince, the former New Age traveller turned eco-centric industrialist who is bankrolling Forest Green Rovers' attempt to be promoted into the Football League.
In his whole life he rarely had settled salaried work, and usually relied on patronage or on influential acquaintances to find him temporary posts.
Leopold wanted Wolfgang to immerse himself in the Italian language, to experience church music of the highest quality, and to extend his network of influential acquaintances.
The police had questioned him several times, and just a few days before, he had heard that an influential acquaintance, a Mr. Tanaka, a retired officer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line, an anti-Christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies and notorious for his personal tyrannies, had been telling people that Tanimoto should not be trusted.
An exceptional chapter, entitled "One Mile", charts the destruction of a close-knit community by a single, mile-long curve in Moses's Cross Bronx Expressway – a curve added to the route, Caro strongly suggests, to steer clear of property owned by an influential acquaintance.
But cultivating the acquaintance of influential or knowledgeable people in the hope that they can help boost you up the ladder of success can, as our colleague Adam Ruben noted in a recent column, feel "icky".
For MacCarthy, it means an exhaustive acquaintance with another influential utopian and another experimental artistic community, this time one that hoped to build a modernist new world.
In 1586 Porta was probably again summoned before the Neapolitan Inquisition, perhaps together with Luigi Tansillo (1510 1568), an influential poet (and a close acquaintance of Giordano Bruno (1548 1600)).
The king's conversations with Mr. Goldberg, an influential writer on the Middle East and an acquaintance of more than a decade, offer a rare view of the contradictory mind-set of Washington's closest ally in the Arab world as he struggles to master the upheaval of the Arab Spring revolts.
