Sentence examples for some acquaintance with from inspiring English sources

I had had some acquaintance with Wittgenstein's work in college but nothing of any depth.

A proper understanding of income and expenditure theory requires some acquaintance with the concepts used in national income accounting.

When the systems engineer's job is defined as including significant management responsibility, some acquaintance with modern management techniques is an obvious requirement.

The source of their "leads" or target lists – which by coincidence or not contained those such as West who had at least some acquaintance with investing and were more likely to listen to the pitch – also remained a mystery.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

The level of knowledge of logic expected for exemption, or tested on the examination, is what is covered in Logic I at MIT: proof procedure and semantics for first-order predicate logic with identity, and some acquaintance with standard metalogical results (for example, those concerning completeness, incompleteness and decidability).

By Sylvia Wallan and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 15 , 1936P. 9 A lady who has some slight acquaintance with Mrs. Roosevelt dropped in at the White House to pay her a call.

The New Yorker, August 15 , 1936P. 9 A lady who has some slight acquaintance with Mrs. Roosevelt dropped in at the White House to pay her a call.

Socrates himself would sometimes go to visit her, and some of his acquaintance with him; and those who frequented her company would carry their wives with them to listen to her.

I think what Metz and that unbelievably lucky audience are saying is that heckling and cancer are things that we've all got some degree of acquaintance with in our lives, and seeing someone meet disaster with a revolutionary engagement is like fresh air rushing into our life-worn, asthmatic lungs.

Some of the NY had brief acquaintance with some practices, while none of the MS group had prior experience with yoga and were given time to practice and get acquainted with the interventions till they performed them accurately.