Sentence examples for more distant acquaintances from inspiring English sources

The charges represent a blow to the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, and the case has already changed the union's culture of freewheeling favor trading, which many said grew from a kind of professional courtesy — one officer helping another — to fixing tickets for family, friends and more distant acquaintances.

You find more distant acquaintances and colleagues on Twitter so you follow them.

Users have learned to rapidly tap to progress slide by slide through friends' Stories, especially when racing through those with too many posts or that come from more distant acquaintances.

In an effort to rectify that, in 2011 Facebook revamped its Friend Lists, automatically creating lists of your family, co-workers, and local friends, plus letting you set up lists of more distant Acquaintances you want to see less of, and Close Friends whose posts you don't want to miss.

She or he will call some people very frequently, and others only occasionally, where the people called are likely to include relatives, close friends, and more distant acquaintances.

At the end of the program many participants talked about expectations from family members, friends, neighbors, and more distant acquaintances, expectations regarding other areas than work.

If you want to get started, try this: list three people - one personal, one work, and one more distant acquaintance (either personal or work).

With time as the Open Graph app platform went public and other apps started publishing to Ticker, it refined to show fewer stories about distant acquaintances and more about your close friends.

Granovetter's strong and weak ties asks whether people adjoining each other are in a direct relationship, or more distant from each other, that is, merely acquaintances.

So people keep getting more and more friends on Facebook, with a higher portion of them being distant acquaintances.

Your friend becomes more distant.