More than 90 percent of rapes this year involved acquaintances or relatives, which "would seem to indicate that the past reluctance of victims to report relatives or date rapes is giving way to willingness of victims to report," he said.
Also, as the data collection was formally organized and involved acquaintances, there may have been concerns about what should or should not be said.
Coming to know that Fa, in the simplest cases, involves acquaintance with objects and properties.
Alternatively, some acquaintance theorists take perceptual or sensory experience to involve acquaintance with universals, and hope thereby to avoid problems with both the sense datum theory and the adverbial theory.
Perhaps, when one thinks of something's having 48 speckles, one can think of it, as Russell might say, only by description (e.g., that number that is picked out by the numeral '48', or by some other description) such that one's having the thought does not involve acquaintance with the property of being 48-speckled.
This adds new detail to an emerging picture of Mr. Pierce as an administrator who delegated great authority to aides but intervened sporadically on projects involving acquaintances.
These interesting changes involve acquaintances vanishing, old friends suffering a complete character change, and an invasion of faceless aliens like the village of the damned.
It is extremely common around the nation to find in killings involving acquaintances that those involved are not family members but criminals or drug gang members, said David M. Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.
To win a conviction in a criminal case requires a far higher burden of proof, which is part of the reason why only a minority of sexual assault cases involving acquaintances lead to arrest, let alone a conviction.
The proceeding involved an acquaintance of Mr. Ellen, Joanne Xie, a Chinese citizen seeking asylum in the United States.
She had a messy life that involved criminal acquaintances and lies to get asylum in the United States (including one about a rape by soldiers) and about taxes and income.
