Sentence examples for through acquaintances from inspiring English sources

I heard through acquaintances that he continued to teach, and also got a job at a foundry.

Her mother found work in a drapery factory and through acquaintances was introduced to a widower with two sons who lived in Montreal.

As a result of these new challenges, casting directors have been forced to take a more inventive approach, essentially networking for talent through acquaintances.

Sociologist Mark Granovetter examined the importance of "weak ties" in his classic 1974 book "Getting a Job," in which he found that most people obtained their jobs through acquaintances, not close friends.

By writing musical, dramatic, and theoretical works, and through acquaintances and long correspondences — many of them eventually published — with the likes of Sterne, Sancho gains real, if more than slightly condescending, renown among the English literati, eventually making him worthy of the painterly gaze of a Gainsborough.

Job seekers in various labor markets often use informal methods to find jobs, such as by getting help with interview preparation from family members and relatives, accessing job information through acquaintances, or having internal employees put in a good word for them (Bian 1997; Bian and Ang 1997; Flap and Boxman 1999; Lin et al. 1981).

Through acquaintance with certain Danish courtiers, he was named to accompany the mentally unstable Christian VII on a European tour (1768 69), a post that led to Struensee's appointment as court physician in 1769.

Inferential knowledge is secured by direct acquaintance with logical and probabilistic connections between the propositions known through acquaintance and other propositions.

Second, we said above that noninferential knowledge is secured by acquaintance with truth makers, while inferential knowledge is secured by acquaintance with logical and probabilistic connections between the propositions known through acquaintance and what one infers from those propositions.

But if one can convince oneself that there are real logical relations of making probable holding between propositions, then perhaps the acquaintance theorist can secure the required knowledge of those connections once again through acquaintance.

For even a slight difference between feeling cold and feeling not-cold will make a difference in the corresponding self-attributions.[2] The idea that we know our mental states through acquaintance with them is usually associated with Russell (1917), but such accounts trace their lineage at least to Descartes.