The phrase "intimate associations" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is most often used to refer to close, personal relationships between two people, such as a romantic relationship. For example, you could say, "They enjoyed the benefits of an intimate association for many years."
Underlying the panel's decision was the idea that as far as "intimate associations" go, fraternities are just not all that intimate.
The panel seemed to take a generally unfavorable view of fraternities, ruling that they are "intimate associations" of a lesser strength than, say, a marriage, a proposition that many pledges may choose to dispute.
In group situations those with induced nostalgia not only tend to feel more closely bonded with the group but also more willing to form intimate associations with strangers and to be freer in their thinking.
Taken to its logical conclusion, Kennedy's argument would seem to invalidate all moral restrictions on intimate associations that, it could be said, cause no harm to others -- restrictions on polygamy, for example.
The organisms that live in the cavities of sponges include crustaceans, nematode and polychaete worms, ophiuroid echinoderms (brittle stars), and bivalve mollusks; some inhabit a sponge for occasional shelter or nourishment, others establish more intimate associations as parasites or predators.
As it happens, this exhibition's best painting is a picture of a woman and child by Mary Cassatt, who may be more properly considered a French Impressionist given her nearly lifelong stay in France and her intimate associations with Degas and other original members of the movement.
His encouragement, guidance and intimate association will be sorely missed.
The death of the animals will be the end of a long & intimate association.
They argue that Texas's sodomy law deprives them of the right of intimate association other Americans enjoy.
(Biesenbach, MOMA's curator at large, conceived the show and has enjoyed an intimate association of long-standing with Abramovic).
Pathogenesis is the stage of disease in which the pathogen is in intimate association with living host tissue.
