One business acquaintance said that his appointment was no surprise considering he has 'mining running through his blood'.

The tycoon's business acquaintances have long been awed by his work ethic.

In 2002, she won support for her idea from seven business acquaintances who contributed a total of 120,000 to the venture.

The bank cancelled my debit card by mistake, resulting in it being confiscated in front of business acquaintances.

Expenses are not deductible when a group of business acquaintances take turns picking up each other's entertainment checks without regard to whether any business purposes are served.

This will deepen a partnership or help you see the love potential of a casual acquaintance.

If you use one once, even with a casual acquaintance, they must respond in kind.

At least five other undercover officers including her housemate, co-worker and a casual acquaintance were undercover officers, legal documents claim.

His career in cinema started in 1914, when a casual acquaintance offered him a part in a film.

One day he attends the funeral of a casual acquaintance and falls to contemplation in the graveyard.

That instrument cluster turns out, on close acquaintance, to be pleasantly understated and easy to live with.

His own books carry the imprint of their close acquaintance.

In the years that followed he maintained a close acquaintance with the city, and contributed what he could in a civilian capacity.

This they did, and fun it was until they made an uncomfortably close acquaintance with several 4.5 shells from a cruiser lurking in the vicinity.

Economic commentary and a flair for language are rarely close acquaintances.

Those references do nevertheless reveal intimate acquaintance with his thought.

He perfected his news-gathering forces and brought into play his intimate acquaintance with men of affairs to open up the sources of information.

I started an intimate acquaintance with the outer world, appreciating its beauty and growing familiar with sights and sound around me.

His teaching method placed emphasis on acquiring an intimate acquaintance with the subject by doing a great many drawings and studies.

A likeness for an intimate acquaintance or ones own family should be marked by that amiability and cheerfulness, so appropriate to the social circle and the home fireside.

Although much more than mere acquaintances, they were never close friends.

Mere acquaintances and those after favours crowd out real work, friends and family.

They can be friends, family, or mere acquaintances.

Mere acquaintances are thought to be close friends; politeness and the exchange of pleasantries are taken as expressions of deep attachment and the promise of future support.

Even a new acquaintance can reach out to someone by saying the right word at the right moment.

If you're evidently taken by a new acquaintance, they'll mark you down as a person of good judgment and all kinds of advantages will accrue.

It will be a new acquaintance for me.

You've bonded with a new acquaintance over books and films and nightmare bosses.

He was introduced to four friends of his new acquaintance.

He was obliged to take his own life, having been framed by an old acquaintance.

He once bought a house for an old acquaintance who'd fallen on hard times.

He's an old acquaintance from school, so she invites him to her house.

Truly, this old acquaintance will never be forgotten.

An advertising executive's wedding plans are thrown into confusion by the return of an old acquaintance.