Sentence examples for of the acquaintances from inspiring English sources

Despite the setbacks, I am grateful for some of the acquaintances I made.

Buyers were not wanting, but even then, as now, they universally liked lucky bargains; and the highest price offered to one of the acquaintances of Dandie Dinmont for the castings of his carefully tended ewes was two-and-twenty pence per head.

The friendships were aggregated to identify the acquaintances of a target user and social events relevant to the preferences of the acquaintances and the user were recommended.

"If she couldn't find a reason to live, how can I?" a friend wondered aloud after one of her friends (who happened to be one of the acquaintances I've mentioned) killed herself.

There was no difference in attractiveness of the acquaintances versus partners (t(28) = −0.35, p = 0.73).

BonJour's view of acquaintance seems to explain why, as proponents of the acquaintance approach tend to hold, one cannot be acquainted with external world objects or external world facts (BonJour 2001: 31).

This was said to give rise to "frequent meetings" in Willoughby and "a difficulty arising by reason of the acquaintance of the parties".

This version of the acquaintance theory relies critically on the fundamental concept of acquaintance in understanding both noninferential and inferential knowledge.

Another kind of criticism of the Acquaintance Hypothesis is developed in Gertler (1999).

Recently, more sophisticated forms of the acquaintance theory have been developed, and responses to central objections offered.

BonJour, once one of the leading coherence theorists of empirical justification, has recently moved to a version of the acquaintance theory of justification.