Sentence examples for term acquaintance from inspiring English sources
Although some prefer the more-inclusive term acquaintance rape, which does not imply any sort of romantic relationship between the rapist and the victim, both terms acknowledge the facts that the majority of women and men who are raped know their attackers and that the victim did not consent to sexual activity.
This immediate relation to individual objects is best known under Russell's term "acquaintance".
Coyle accepted and long-term acquaintance Stewart took charge for the Saints' 3-2 win against Dunfermline before joining him at Turf Moor.
The virtue of the long-form storytelling (39 episodes in all) is that even when a minor character dies it has the impact of losing, if not an old friend, then at least a long-term acquaintance.
He has been a long-term acquaintance of the alleged heroin kingpin Gafur Rakhimov (who seems to have played a key role in helping Russia win the Sochi Winter Olympics), but strenuously denies any business relationship with the mysterious businessman.
One approach to identify them, considering a theoretical infection process spreading on a skewed contact network, has been termed "acquaintance immunization" [ 14, 15].
In a New York Magazine piece entitled, "Who in God's Name Is Mitt Romney?", Rich interviews long-term acquaintances of the former governor, one of whom is quoted as saying, "None of us had any idea who this guy was".
In the present study, we will use the term acquaintanceship in the sense of 'knowing a person well' for all types of acquaintance or familiarity with the child, including family relationships.
This worry is sometimes put in terms of acquaintance: the specific way in which the thinker is acquainted with the referent of her thought in using phenomenal concepts does not seem to be captured by the demonstrative account (see Levine 2007).
"He was always a bit loopy," says one long-term Muslim acquaintance of Choudary.
Terms like acquaintance rape, date rape, and marital rape had yet to be invented.
